SplitButton.ButtonItem property

Article
12/11/2020

Represents a container for a Button or Toggle Button that exposes the default Command of a Split Button.

Usage

<SplitButton.ButtonItem>
  child elements
</SplitButton.ButtonItem>

Attributes

There are no attributes.

Child elements

Element	Description
Button	May occur at most once
ToggleButton	May occur at most once

Parent elements

Element
SplitButton

Remarks

Optional.

May occur at most once for each SplitButton.

Each SplitButton.ButtonItem can contain only one Button or ToggleButton child element.

Examples

The following example demonstrates the basic markup for the Split Button.

This section of code shows the SplitButton and SplitButton.ButtonItem Command declarations, with an associated Group that functions as the parent container for the SplitButton element.

<!-- SplitButton -->
<Command Name="cmdSplitButtonGroup"
         Symbol="cmdSplitButtonGroup"
         Comment="SplitButton Group"
         LabelTitle="SplitButton"/>
<Command Name="cmdSplitButton"
         Symbol="cmdSplitButton"
         Comment="SplitButton"
         LabelTitle="SplitButton"/>
<Command Name="cmdSBButtonItem"
         Symbol="cmdSBButtonItem"
         Comment="SBButtonItem"
         LabelTitle="SB ButtonItem"/>
<Command Name="cmdSBButton1"
         Symbol="cmdSBButton1"
         Comment="SBButton1"
         LabelTitle="SB Button">
  <Command.LargeImages>
    <Image Source="res/copyL_32.bmp"/>
  </Command.LargeImages>
  <Command.SmallImages>
    <Image Source="res/copyS_16.bmp"/>
  </Command.SmallImages>
  <Command.LargeHighContrastImages>
    <Image Source="res/copyLHC_32.bmp"/>
  </Command.LargeHighContrastImages>
  <Command.SmallHighContrastImages>
    <Image Source="res/copySHC_16.bmp"/>
  </Command.SmallHighContrastImages>
</Command>
<Command Name="cmdSBMajorItems"
         Comment="Major Items Category"
         LabelTitle="Major Items"/>
<Command Name="cmdSBStandardItems"
         Comment="Standard Items Category"
         LabelTitle="Standard Items"/>

This section of code shows the SplitButton and SplitButton.ButtonItem control declarations.

<Group CommandName="cmdSplitButtonGroup">
  <SplitButton CommandName="cmdSplitButton">
    <SplitButton.ButtonItem>
      <Button CommandName="cmdSBButtonItem"/>
    </SplitButton.ButtonItem>
    <SplitButton.MenuGroups>
      <MenuGroup CommandName="cmdSBMajorItems" 
                 Class="MajorItems">
        <Button CommandName="cmdSBButton1"/>
        <Button CommandName="cmdSBButton1"/>
      </MenuGroup>
      <MenuGroup CommandName="cmdSBStandardItems"
                 Class="StandardItems">
        <Button CommandName="cmdSBButton1"/>
        <Button CommandName="cmdSBButton1"/>
      </MenuGroup>
      <MenuGroup Class="StandardItems">
        <Button CommandName="cmdSBButton1"/>
        <Button CommandName="cmdSBButton1"/>
      </MenuGroup>
    </SplitButton.MenuGroups>
  </SplitButton>
</Group>

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 R2 [desktop apps only]