How to toggle Menu in Ionic 4

Question

I am new to Ionic, and I am developing a basic app in Ionic 4 with sidemenu.

I am adding a button in Side Menu, when I am clicking on that button the menu is not toggling. can anyone help me in this ? here's the code which I am trying.

<ion-button color="primary" (click)="function()" class="class" menuToggle expand="block" fill="outline"> text </ion-button>

Explanation of not Duplicate question

Please check the Bold text, I already have a working sidemenu, but the problem is I want to close the sidemenu when I click on ion-button, not on ion-item.

Answer 1

Simply encapsulate your ion-button within an ion-menu-toggle element, like so:

<ion-menu-toggle>
  <ion-button>Toggle Menu</ion-button>
</ion-menu-toggle>

View the documentation here

EDIT: If you don't want to use ion-menu-toggle, you can do this instead:

In your app.component.ts:

import { MenuController } from '@ionic/angular'; //import MenuController to access toggle() method.

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: 'app.component.html'
})
export class AppComponent {
  constructor(
    public menuCtrl: MenuController
  ) {
    this.initializeApp();
  }

toggleMenu() {
    this.menuCtrl.toggle(); //Add this method to your button click function
  }

}

And in your app.component.html:

<ion-button (click)="toggleMenu()">Toggle Menu</ion-button>

To view all methods, check the docs here.