How to use Ultimenu in Drupal
LN Webworks · 16 Sep, 2025
What is Ultimenu?
Ultimenu is the UltimatelyDeadSimple megamenu ever with dynamic region creation. An Ultimenu block is based on a menu. mainly we used Ultimenu to create the mobile menus in Drupal. Ultimenu regions are based on the menu items. The result is a block contains regions containing blocks, as opposed to a region contains blocks.
How do we install Ultimenu?
Install the module with composer:
run command:
composer require ‘drupal/ultimenu:^2.11’
After downloading, click extend and enable the module. No further dependencies are required.
Create the menu
To create the menus we need to follow the following steps:
- Click Structure > Menus.
- Look for the Main Navigation
- Click the edit menu.
- Click the Add link button
- Add the first level menu items
The Travel link points to route:<nolink>. This parent element is only there to contain other elements:
How to configure Ultimenu?
Steps:
- Click Structure > Ultimenu.
- Tab select Main navigation in the vertical Ultimenu blocks.
- Click Save configuration.
- Click Ultimenu regions.
- Select Ultimenu:main: Travel
- Ultimenu will create this region dynamically in the Block Layout page so that you can place blocks in it.
- Click Save Configuration
To show the ultimenu for mobile & desktop, we need to enable the below configuration, there are several configurations available you can use them according to our requirements.
Place the Ultimenu block
- Click Structure > Block layout.
- Place the Ultimenu: Main navigation in the Navigation (collapsible) region.
- Uncheck the Display title.
- Click Save block.
Configure the Ultimenu main navigation block
Here we need to update the Off-canvas element & On-canvas element ID as per our header structure. We can also manage the menu slide-in position for mobile screens. For this, we need to select the option under the off-canvas skin and flyout orientation.
If you are using ultimenu:^2.11 then you need to add the class “is-ultimenu-canvas–active” on the body tag. for this use the below provided js code in your custom.js file. you can also overwrite ultimenu js as per our requirement.
Let’s Wrap It Up!
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