How to make Material Design Menu (mat-menu) hide on mouseleave

Question

I succeeded in making the menu appear on mouseenter. What I want to do now is make it disappear on the mouseleave event of the menu itself. Any ide

Answer 1

You can do this by wrapping the menu buttons in a <span> element:

HTML:

<button mat-button 
  [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu" 
  (mouseenter)="openMyMenu()">
  Trigger
</button>
<mat-menu #menu="matMenu" overlapTrigger="false">
  <span (mouseleave)="closeMyMenu()">
    <button mat-menu-item>Item 1</button>
    <button mat-menu-item>Item 2</button>
  </span>
</mat-menu>

Component:

export class MenuOverviewExample {
  @ViewChild(MatMenuTrigger) trigger: MatMenuTrigger;

  openMyMenu() {
    this.trigger.openMenu();
  } 
  closeMyMenu() {
    this.trigger.closeMenu();
  }  
}

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Demo (V5):

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Material V6:

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