Initialization

To add dhtmlxRibbon into an application, you need to take the following simple steps:

Download the Ribbon package and unpack it into a folder of your project
Include source files
Create a container
Initialize Ribbon with the object constructor
Load data into Ribbon

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>How to Start with dhtmlxRibbon</title>         
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../codebase/suite.js"></script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../codebase/suite.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="ribbon_container"></div>
        <script>            // creating dhtmlxRibbon
            var ribbon = new dhx.Ribbon("ribbon_container");
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Include source files

Create an HTML file and place full paths to JS and CSS files of the dhtmlxSuite library into the header of the file. The files are:

suite.js
suite.css

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../codebase/suite.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../codebase/suite.css">

Create a container

Add a container for the Ribbon and give it an id, e.g. "ribbon_container":

<div id="ribbon_container"></div>

Initialize Ribbon

Initialize Ribbon with the dhx.Ribbon object constructor. The constructor takes two parameters:

the HTML object on the page that serves as the toolbar container
an object with configuration properties (see the full list below)

var ribbon = new dhx.Ribbon("ribbon_container", {
    // config options
});

Configuration properties:

css	adds style classes to Ribbon
data	specifies an array of data objects to set into Ribbon
menuCss	adds style classes to all containers of Ribbon controls with nested items

Load data into Ribbon

There are two handy ways of loading data, i.e. a set of controls into Ribbon:

from an external file with the help of the load() method of tree collection:

var ribbon = new dhx.Ribbon("ribbon_container");
ribbon.data.load("../common/dataset.json");

from a local source using the parse() method of tree collection:

var data = [
    {
        type: "block",
        items: [
            {
                value: "New",
                icon: "dxi dxi-file-outline",
                size: "small"              
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        type: "block",
        direction: "col",
        items: [
            {
                value: "Add",
                icon: "dxi dxi-plus",
                size: "small"
            },
            {
                value: "Remove",
                icon: "dxi dxi-delete",
                size: "small"
            }
        ]
    }
 
];
 
var ribbon = new dhx.Ribbon("ribbon_container", {css: "dhx_widget--bordered"});
ribbon.data.parse(data);

Detailed information on loading data into Ribbon is given in the article Data Loading.