Open a dialog on popup item click in EJ2 TypeScript Drop down button control

31 Aug 20235 minutes to read
This section explains about how to open a dialog on DropdownButton popup item click. This can be achieved by handling dialog open in select event of the DropdownButton.
In the following example, Dialog will open while selecting Other Folder... item.
index.ts
index.html
styles.css
import { DropDownButton, ItemModel, MenuEventArgs, DropDownButtonModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons';
import { Dialog } from '@syncfusion/ej2-popups';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

// To initialize the Dialog component.
let dialog: Dialog = new Dialog({
    content: "Move Items To 'Web Team'",
    header: 'Move Items',
    buttons: [{
        buttonModel: {
            isPrimary: true,
            content: 'OK',
            cssClass: 'e-flat',
        },
        click: function () {
            this.hide();
        }
    }],
    width: '250px',
    height: '150px',
    visible: false,
    position: {X: 100, Y: 100}
});

// Render initialized Dialog.
dialog.appendTo('#dialog');

// Initialize action items.
let items: ItemModel[] = [
    {
        text: 'Archive'
    },
    {
        text: 'Inbox'
    },
    {
        text: 'HR Portal'
    },
    {
        separator: true
    },
    {
        text: 'Other Folder...'
    },
    {
        text: 'Copy to Folder'
    }];

// Initialize DropDownButton options.
let ddbOption: DropDownButtonModel = {
  iconCss: 'ddb-icons e-folder',
  cssClass: 'e-vertical',
  items: items,
  iconPosition: 'Top',
  select: (args: MenuEventArgs) => {
      if (args.item.text === 'Other Folder...') {
        dialog.show();
      }
  }
};
// To initialize the DropDownButton component.
let drpDownBtn: DropDownButton = new DropDownButton(ddbOption, '#iconbutton');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>EJ2 Button</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="styles.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'>
        <div id='dialog'></div>
        <button id='iconbutton'>Move</button>
    </div>
</body>

</html>
#container {
    visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

@font-face {
font-family: 'e-db-icons';
src:
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font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

.ddb-icons {
 font-family: 'e-db-icons' !important;
speak: none;
font-size: 55px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
line-height: 1;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

.e-folder::before {
  content: '\e703';
}