Icons support in Angular Drop down list component

27 Apr 20242 minutes to read

You can render icons to the list items by mapping the iconCss  fields. This iconCss fields create a span in the list item with mapped class name to allow styling as per your need.

In the following sample, icon classes are mapped with iconCss field.

app.component.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'
import { DropDownListModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-dropdowns'



import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
imports: [
        FormsModule, DropDownListModule
    ],


standalone: true,
    selector: 'app-root',
    // specifies the template string for the DropDownList component
    template: `<ejs-dropdownlist id='ddlelement' #samples [dataSource]='data' [fields]='fields' [placeholder]='text'></ejs-dropdownlist>`
})
export class AppComponent {
    constructor() {
    }
    // defined the array of data
    public data: { [key: string]: Object }[] = [
        { Class: 'asc-sort', Type: 'Sort A to Z', Id: '1' },
        { Class: 'dsc-sort', Type: 'Sort Z to A ', Id: '2' },
        { Class: 'filter', Type: 'Filter', Id: '3' },
        { Class: 'clear', Type: 'Clear', Id: '4' }];
    // map the icon column to iconCSS field.
    public fields: Object = { text: 'Type', iconCss: 'Class', value: 'Id' };
    //set the placeholder to DropDownList input
    public text: string = 'Select a format';
}

main.ts

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