# dhtmlxmenu:dhtmlxmenu_init_skinning [DHX documentation]

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## Skinning

There are two ways to set skin:

- Passing skin name to constructor (the second argument);
- Using setSkin method.

To set skin with constructor you should call dhtmlXMenuObject with the second argument, which contains skin name:

        var menu = new dhtmlXMenuObject("parentId", "dhx_skyblue");

If you just initiate contextual menu and have no parent object yet, you can pass null as the first argument:

        var menu = new dhtmlXMenuObject(null, "dhx_skyblue");
        menu.renderAsContextMenu();

Also you can easily cnahge skin “on-the-fly” using setSkin method:

        var menu = new dhtmlXMenuObject("parentId");
        menu.setSkin("dhx_skyblue");

Available skins are:

dhx_skyblue (the default one) | dhx_blue | dhx_black