Footer in EJ2 TypeScript Chat UI control

17 Dec 20243 minutes to read

You can use showFooter property to enable or disable the chat footer.

import { ChatUI, UserModel, MessageModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-interactive-chat';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

let currentUserModel: UserModel = {
    id: "user1",
    user: "Albert"
};

let michaleUserModel: UserModel = {
    id: "user2",
    user: "Michale Suyama"
};
let chatMessages: MessageModel[] = [
    {
        author: currentUserModel,
        text: "Hi Michale, are we on track for the deadline?"
    },
    {
        author: michaleUserModel,
        text: "Yes, the design phase is complete."
    },
    {
        author: currentUserModel,
        text: "I’ll review it and send feedback by today."
    }
];
// Initializes the Chat UI control
let chatUI: ChatUI = new ChatUI({
    messages: chatMessages,
    user: currentUserModel,
    showFooter: false
});

// Render initialized Chat UI.
chatUI.appendTo('#showFooter');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>EJ2 Chat UI</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="TypeScript Chat UI Control" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-interactive-chat/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.1.17/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    <div id='container' style="height: 380px; width: 450px;">
        <div id="showFooter"></div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Refer to the Templates section for more details about the footer template.