Getting Started

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This section briefly explains about how to include a simple ASP.NET MVC ButtonGroup in your ASP.NET MVC application using Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

System requirements for ASP.NET MVC controls

Create ASP.NET MVC application with HTML helper

Install ASP.NET MVC package in the application

To add ASP.NET MVC controls in the application, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search for Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 and then install it.

Package Manager
Install-Package Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 -Version 27.2.2

NOTE

Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic to learn more about installing NuGet packages in various OS environments. The Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 NuGet package has dependencies, Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization and Syncfusion.Licensing for validating Syncfusion license key.

NOTE

If you create ASP.NET MVC application with MVC4 package, search for Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC4 and then install it.

Add namespace

Add Syncfusion.EJ2 namespace reference in Web.config under Views folder.

<namespaces>
    <add namespace="Syncfusion.EJ2"/>
</namespaces>

Add stylesheet and script resources

Here, the theme and script is referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

~/_Layout.cshtml
<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls styles -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/fluent.css" />
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls scripts -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/dist/ej2.min.js"></script>
</head>

NOTE

Checkout the Themes topic to learn different ways (CDN, NPM package, and CRG) to refer styles in ASP.NET MVC application, and to have the expected appearance for Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls. Checkout the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your ASP.NET MVC application.

Register Syncfusion script manager

Also, register the script manager EJS().ScriptManager() at the end of <body> in the ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows.

~/_Layout.cshtml
<body>
...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Script Manager -->
    @Html.EJS().ScriptManager()
</body>

Add ButtonGroup to the project

To create simple ButtonGroup add the div tag with class name as e-btn-group and add Button component that should inside the div element in your Index.cshtml page.

CSHTML
Default.cs
<div class='e-btn-group'>
    @Html.EJS().Button("html").Content("HTML").Render()
    @Html.EJS().Button("css").Content("CSS").Render()
    @Html.EJS().Button("javacript").Content("Javascript").Render()
</div>
public ActionResult Index()
    {
            return View();
    }

Output be like the below.

Run the application

After successful compilation of your application, simply press F5 to run the application.

The following example shows a default rendering of ButtonGroup.

CSHTML
Default.cs
<div class='e-btn-group'>
    @Html.EJS().Button("html").Content("HTML").Render()
    @Html.EJS().Button("css").Content("CSS").Render()
    @Html.EJS().Button("javacript").Content("Javascript").Render()
</div>
public ActionResult Index()
    {
            return View();
    }

Orientation

ButtonGroup can be arranged in a vertical and horizontal orientation. By default, it is horizontally aligned.

Vertical Orientation

ButtonGroup can be aligned vertically by using the built-in CSS class e-vertical to the target element.

The following example illustrates how to achieve vertical orientation in ButtonGroup.

CSHTML
Default.cs
<div class='e-btn-group e-vertical'>
    @Html.EJS().Button("html").Content("HTML").Render()
    @Html.EJS().Button("css").Content("CSS").Render()
    @Html.EJS().Button("javacript").Content("Javascript").Render()
</div>
public ActionResult Index()
    {
            return View();
    }

NOTE

ButtonGroup does not support SplitButton component nesting in a vertical orientation.