---
title: NSHostingMenu
framework: swiftui
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: swiftui/nshostingmenu
---

# NSHostingMenu

An AppKit menu with menu items that are defined by a SwiftUI View.

## Declaration

```swift
class NSHostingMenu<Content> where Content : View
```

## Overview

Overview Because NSHostingMenu is an NSMenu subclass, you can integrate it into your existing AppKit view hierarchies that display menus. For example, you can set a hosting menu as an AppKit view’s context menu. A hosting menu’s items property will be updated based on the content of the provided rootView, so direct mutations to the item array are not allowed, even if done using methods like addItem on the menu itself. SwiftUI views hosted in the menu will be styled and behave identically to views in a Menu or View/contextMenu. Make sure to use a Group or a view with multiple subviews as your top level container instead of an HStack or other container that would attempt to place all of your actions in a single menu item. note: When used as the menu of an NSPopUpButton, make sure NSPopUpButtonCell.usesItemFromMenu is set to false. When using a hosting menu with macOS 14, do not change the value of the delegate property. (Setting the delegate is permitted on macOS 15 and newer.) For example, the following code would set up the first part of the Finder’s context menu, both in the Action button in the toolbar and as a context menu: struct FileOrFolderContextMenu: View {     let url: URL     var body: some View {         Section {             if url.hasDirectoryPath {                 Button("Open in New Tab") { ... }             } else {                 Button("Open") { ... }                 Menu("Open With") { ... }             }         }         Section {             Button("Move to Trash") { ... }         }         Section {             Button("Get Info") { ... }             Button("Rename") { ... }             if url.pathExtension != "zip" {                 Button("Compress “\(url.lastPathComponent)”") { ... }             }             // ...         }     } }

// In the toolbar setup: let popUpButton = NSPopUpButton(frame: .zero, pullsDown: true) (popUpButton.cell as! NSPopUpButtonCell).usesItemFromMenu = false popUpButton.menu = NSHostingMenu(rootView: Group {     Button("New Folder") { ... }     FileOrFolderContextMenu(url: selectedURL) })

// In the column view: List(directoryContents, selection: $selection) { entry in     DirectoryEntryRow(entry: entry)         .contextMenu {             FileOrFolderContextMenu(url: entry.url)         } }

## Topics

### Initializers

- [init(rootView:)](swiftui/nshostingmenu/init(rootview:).md)

### Instance Properties

- [rootView](swiftui/nshostingmenu/rootview.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSMenu](appkit/nsmenu.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSAccessibilityElementProtocol](appkit/nsaccessibilityelementprotocol.md)
- [NSAccessibilityProtocol](appkit/nsaccessibilityprotocol.md)
- [NSAppearanceCustomization](appkit/nsappearancecustomization.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification](appkit/nsuserinterfaceitemidentification.md)

## See Also

### Displaying SwiftUI views in AppKit

- [Unifying your app’s animations](swiftui/unifying-your-app-s-animations.md)
- [NSHostingController](swiftui/nshostingcontroller.md)
- [NSHostingView](swiftui/nshostingview.md)
- [NSHostingSizingOptions](swiftui/nshostingsizingoptions.md)
- [NSHostingSceneRepresentation](swiftui/nshostingscenerepresentation.md)
- [NSHostingSceneBridgingOptions](swiftui/nshostingscenebridgingoptions.md)