Remove item in Angular Drop down list component

27 Apr 20245 minutes to read

To get started quickly with removing items in angular DropDownList component, you can check the video below.

The following example demonstrate about how to remove an item from DropDownList.

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, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { DropDownListComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-dropdowns';

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


standalone: true,
    selector: 'control-content',
    // specifies the template path for DropDownList component
    templateUrl: `remove.html`
})
export class AppComponent {
    constructor() {
    }
    ngAfterViewInit(){
        document.getElementById('btn')!.onclick = () => {
            // create DropDownList object
            let obj: any = document.getElementById('ddlelement');
            if (obj.ej2_instances[0].list) {
                // Remove the selected value if 0th index selected
                if (((this.dropDownListObject as any) as any).index === 0) {
                    ((this.dropDownListObject as any) as any).value = null;
                    ((this.dropDownListObject as any) as any).dataBind();
                }
                // remove first item in list
                (obj.ej2_instances[0].list.querySelectorAll('li')[0]).remove();
                if (!obj.ej2_instances[0].list.querySelectorAll('li')[0]) {
                    (this.dropDownListObject as any).dataSource = [];
                    // enable the nodata template when no data source is empty.
                    obj.ej2_instances[0].list.classList.add('e-nodata');
                }
            } else {
                // remove first item in list
                (this.dropDownListObject as any).dataSource.splice(0, 1);
            }
        }
    }
    // defined the array of data
    public data: { [key: string]: Object }[] = [ { Id: 'game1', Game: 'Badminton' },
                 { Id: 'game2', Game: 'Football' }, { Id: 'game3', Game: 'Tennis' }];
    // maps the appropriate column to fields property
    public fields: Object = { text: 'Game', value: 'Id' };
    //set the placeholder to DropDownList input
    public text: string = "Select a game";
    @ViewChild('ddlelement')
    public dropDownListObject = DropDownListComponent;

}

main.ts

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