# Async Context Menus

> Learn how to use async context menus in Infinite Table.

Published: 2025-03-20  
Tags: menus

Canonical page: https://infinite-table.com/blog/2025/03/20/async-context-menus

Infinite Table 6.1.0 introduces support for lazy loading context menus. This is useful when you need to load your context menu items conditionally, from the backend, based on the cell's value or other conditions.

## How it works

Starting with version `6.1.0`, the [`getCellContextMenuItems`](https://infinite-table.com/docs/reference/infinite-table-props.md#getCellContextMenuItems) and [`getContextMenuItems`](https://infinite-table.com/docs/reference/infinite-table-props.md#getContextMenuItems) props can now return a `Promise` that resolves to an array of `MenuItem` objects (or an object with `items` and `columns` properties, if you need to also configure the columns).

[Async Context Menus](https://codesandbox.io/s/nostalgic-borg-qg8q7r)

The [`getCellContextMenuItems`](https://infinite-table.com/docs/reference/infinite-table-props.md#getCellContextMenuItems) is called with an object that gives you access to all the info regarding the current right-clicked cell - both the row information and the current column. You can use that to decide whether you want to return a menu immediately or to fetch some data from the server and display the context menu after the server response comes in.