Select one child in Angular TreeView component

22 Apr 20256 minutes to read

The TreeView allows both single and multiple selections. If your application needs to select one child at a time under one specific parent, refer to the following example. Here, you can achieve this in the nodeSelecting event of TreeView. However, you can reset the selected child and make another selection by pressing Ctrl while clicking on the selected nodes.

app.component.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'
import { TreeViewModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations'
import { Component, Inject, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { TreeViewComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations';
import { NodeSelectEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';
/**
 * Single child selection at a time
 */
@Component({
  imports: [
    FormsModule, TreeViewModule
  ],
  standalone: true,
  selector: 'app-container',
  template: `<div id='treeparent'><ejs-treeview #tree id="listtree" allowMultiSelection='allowMultiSelection' [fields]='listfields' (nodeSelecting)="onNodeSelecting($event)"></ejs-treeview></div>`
})
export class AppComponent {

  @ViewChild('tree')
  public tree?: TreeViewComponent;
  // Self-referential list data source for TreeView component
  public localData: Object[] = [
    { id: 1, name: 'Parent 1', hasChild: true, expanded: true },
    { id: 2, pid: 1, name: 'Child 1' },
    { id: 3, pid: 1, name: 'Child 2' },
    { id: 4, pid: 1, name: 'Child 3' },
    { id: 7, name: 'Parent 2', hasChild: true, expanded: true },
    { id: 8, pid: 7, name: 'Child 1' },
    { id: 9, pid: 7, name: 'Child 2' },
    { id: 10, pid: 7, name: 'Child 3' },
  ];
  public listfields: Object = { dataSource: this.localData, id: 'id', parentID: 'pid', text: 'name', hasChildren: 'hasChild' };
  public allowMultiSelection: boolean = true;
  public parent?: any; public child?: any;
  public count: boolean = false;
  public childCount: boolean = false;
  // Triggers when you select any node
  public onNodeSelecting(args: NodeSelectEventArgs): void {
    console.log(args.nodeData);
    let id: any = args.nodeData['parentID'];
    if (!this.count) {
      this.parent = id;
      this.count = true;
    }
    if (!this.childCount) {
      this.child = args.nodeData['id'];
      this.childCount = true
    }
    if (id != null && id === this.parent) {
      let element: HTMLElement = (this.tree as any).element.querySelector('[data-uid="' + id + '"]') as HTMLElement;
      let liElements: any = element.querySelectorAll('ul li');
      for (let i: number = 0; i < liElements.length; i++) {
        let nodeData: any = (this.tree as any).getNode(liElements[i]);
        if (nodeData.selected && args.action === "select" && this.child !== args.nodeData['id']) {
          args.cancel = true;
        }
        // For unselect the selectedNodes
        else if (args.action === "un-select" && this.child === args.nodeData['id']) {
          this.childCount = false;
          this.child = null;
          this.parent = null;
          this.count = false;
        }
      }
    } else if (id !== this.parent && id !== null) {
      if (args.action == "select") {
        args.cancel = true
      }
    } else if (id === null) {
      this.childCount = false;
      this.child = null;
      this.parent = null;
      this.count = false
    }
  }
}

styles.css

@import 'node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';
@import 'node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css';
@import 'node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css';
@import 'node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-angular-base/styles/material.css';
@import 'node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations/styles/material.css';
@import 'node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs/styles/material.css';

main.ts

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