Colorpicker in dropdownbutton in Angular Color picker component

27 Apr 20244 minutes to read

This section explains about how to render the ColorPicker in DropDownButton. The target property of the DropDownButton helps to achieve this scenario. To know about the usage of target property refer to Popup templating section.

In the below sample, the color picker is rendered as inline type by setting inline property as true and the rendered color picker wrapper is passed as a target to the DropDownButton to achieve the above scenario.

app.component.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'
import { ColorPickerComponent, ColorPickerModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs'
import { DropDownButtonComponent, DropDownButtonModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-splitbuttons'
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base'
import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { ColorPickerEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs';

@Component({
imports: [
         FormsModule, ColorPickerModule, DropDownButtonModule
    ],


standalone: true,
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<div class="e-section-control">
            <h4>Choose color</h4>
        <ejs-input ejs-colorpicker type="color" id="element" [inline]="true" (change)="change($event)" />
        <ejs-button ejs-dropdownbutton #dropdownbtn id="dropdownbtn" (open)="onOpen($event)" (beforeClose)="onClose($event)" target=".e-colorpicker-wrapper" iconCss="e-dropdownbtn-preview"></ejs-button></div>`
})

export class AppComponent {
    @ViewChild('dropdownbtn')
    private ddb?: DropDownButtonComponent;

    public onOpen(args: any): void {
        args.element.parentElement.querySelector('.e-cancel').addEventListener('click', this.closePopup.bind(this));
        this.open();
    }

    public onClose(args: any): void {
        args.element.parentElement.querySelector('.e-cancel').removeEventListener('click', this.closePopup.bind(this));
    }

    public closePopup(): void {
        this.ddb?.toggle();
    }

    // Triggers while selecting colors from color picker.
    public change(args: ColorPickerEventArgs): void {
        if (this.ddb?.element && this.ddb.element.children.length > 0) {
            const firstChild = this.ddb.element.children[0] as HTMLElement;
            if (firstChild instanceof HTMLElement) {
              firstChild.style.backgroundColor = args.currentValue.hex;
            }
        }
        this.closePopup();
    }

    public open(): void {
        var zindex = (document.getElementsByClassName('e-color-picker-tooltip')[0] as HTMLElement).style.zIndex;
        var zindexIntValue = parseInt(zindex) + 2;
        var tooltip = (document.getElementsByClassName('e-color-picker-tooltip')[0] as HTMLElement);
        if (tooltip) {
            tooltip.style.zIndex = zindexIntValue.toString();
        }
    }
 }

main.ts

import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import 'zone.js';
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch((err) => console.error(err));