Using the menu property to customise the menu bar items doesn't seem to work at all.

[Webreaper]

I'm using TinyMCE, but it seems like the documentation here is wrong:

https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/7/menus-configuration-options/#example-the-tinymce-default-menu-items

When I modify the visible/available menu items per the documentation, it has no effect on the menu bar. For example, here's a TinyMCE fiddle, that shows the problem:

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  menu: {
    edit: { title: 'Edit', items: 'undo redo | cut copy paste pastetext | selectall | searchreplace' },
    view: { title: 'View', items: 'code revisionhistory | visualaid visualchars visualblocks | spellchecker | preview fullscreen | showcomments' },
    insert: { title: 'Insert', items: 'image link media addcomment pageembed codesample inserttable | charmap emoticons hr | pagebreak nonbreaking anchor tableofcontents | insertdatetime' },
    format: { title: 'Format', items: 'bold italic underline strikethrough superscript subscript codeformat | styles blocks fontfamily fontsize align lineheight | forecolor backcolor | language | removeformat' },
    tools: { title: 'Tools', items: 'spellchecker spellcheckerlanguage | a11ycheck code wordcount' },
    table: { title: 'Table', items: 'inserttable | cell row column | advtablesort | tableprops deletetable' },
  }
});

TinyMCE Fiddle

If you run it, you'll see the File Menu still displays, and Search/replace is not available under the Edit menu.

Is the documentation wrong? I see the same behaviour whether I do it in plain Javascript, or if I do it in Blazor using a C# defined config option. Seems to happen with TinyMCE 6 or 7.

✔️ Expected result

In the above example, I expect to see:

• No File menu in the menu bar
• Search/Replace under the edit menu
• The Table menu appearing on the menu bar

❌ Actual result

• I get the default menu exactly as if I didn't use the menu property in the initialisation.

❓ Possible solution

If you have ideas, you can list them here. Otherwise, you can delete this section.

📃 Other details

• Browser: Chrome
• OS: MacOS
• Versions: Doesn't work in v6 or v7 as far as I can tell

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[Webreaper]

Incidentally, it seems like the same problem exists for the toolbar init property. Adding the following (based precisely on the example code given here doesn't work or have any effect either.

 toolbar: [
                { name: 'history', items: [ 'undo', 'redo' ] },
                { name: 'styles', items: [ 'styles' ] },
                { name: 'formatting', items: [ 'bold', 'italic' ] },
                { name: 'alignment', items: [ 'alignleft', 'aligncenter', 'alignright', 'alignjustify' ] },
                { name: 'indentation', items: [ 'outdent', 'indent' ] }
            ]

[TheSpyder]

This is a docs issue. The menu field does not control which menu items appear, only what each menu contains. To control which items appear use menubar.

Here's an updated fiddle:
https://fiddle.tiny.cloud/3zjoHYUBdO/4

I included a modified toolbar which does work as documented. The labels are for accessibility, not visual. That perhaps could be better explained in the docs.