Types and Styles in JavaScript (ES5) ButtonGroup control

31 Mar 2023 / 2 minutes to read

This section explains about different types and styles of ButtonGroup.

ButtonGroup types

Outline ButtonGroup

An Outline ButtonGroup has a border with transparent background. To create an Outline ButtonGroup, e-outline class should be added to the target element and also add e-outline and e-btn class to each button elements.

The following sample illustrates how to achieve an Outline ButtonGroup.

Source

Preview

index.html

styles.css

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 Button-Group</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="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div class="e-btn-group e-outline">
            <button class="e-btn e-outline">HTML</button>
            <button class="e-btn e-outline">CSS</button>
            <button class="e-btn e-outline">Javascript</button>
        </div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

#container {
    visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}
.e-btn-group {
  margin: 25px 5px 20px 20px;
}

ButtonGroup does not have support for flat and round types.

ButtonGroup styles

The Essential JS 2 ButtonGroup has the following predefined styles. This can be achieved by adding corresponding class name in each button elements.

Class	Description
e-primary	Used to represent a primary action.
e-success	Used to represent a positive action.
e-info	Used to represent an informative action.
e-warning	Used to represent an action with caution.
e-danger	Used to represent a negative action.

The following example illustrates how to achieve predefined styles in ButtonGroup.