Add toggle button in EJ2 JavaScript Toolbar control

2 May 20237 minutes to read

JavaScript Toolbar supports to add a toggle Button by using the template property. Refer below steps

By using Toolbar template property, pass required HTML String to render toggle button.

    { template: '<button class="e-btn" id="media_btn"></button>' }

Now render the toggle Button into the targeted element in JavaScript Toolbar created event handler and bind click event for it. On clicking the toggle Button, change the required icon and content based on current active state.

index.js
index.html
var undoBtn;
var zoomBtn;
var mediaBtn;
var filterBtn;
var visibleBtn;

//Initialize Toolbar component
var toolbar = new ej.navigations.Toolbar({
    created: create,
    items: [
        { template: '<button class="e-btn" id="media_btn"></button>' }, 
        { template: '<button class="e-btn" id="zoom_btn"></button>' },
        { type: "Separator" },
        { template: '<button class="e-btn" id="undo_btn"></button>' }, 
        { template: '<button class="e-btn" id="filter_btn"></button>' },
        { type: "Separator" },
        { template: '<button class="e-btn" id="visible_btn"></button>'},
    ]
});

//Render initialized Toolbar component
toolbar.appendTo('#element');

function create() {
    zoomBtn = new ej.buttons.Button({ cssClass: `e-flat`, iconCss: 'e-icons e-zoomin-icon', isToggle: true });
    zoomBtn.appendTo('#zoom_btn');

    mediaBtn = new ej.buttons.Button({ cssClass: `e-flat`, iconCss: 'e-icons e-play-icon', isToggle: true });
    mediaBtn.appendTo('#media_btn');

    undoBtn = new ej.buttons.Button({ cssClass: `e-flat`, iconCss: 'e-icons e-undo-icon', isToggle: true });
    undoBtn.appendTo('#undo_btn');

    filterBtn = new ej.buttons.Button({ cssClass: `e-flat`, iconCss: 'e-icons e-filter-icon', isToggle: true });
    filterBtn.appendTo('#filter_btn');

    visibleBtn = new ej.buttons.Button({ cssClass: `e-flat`, iconCss: 'e-icons e-hide-icon', isToggle: true, content:'Hide'});
    visibleBtn.appendTo('#visible_btn');

    //Toggle button click event handlers
    zoomBtn.element.onclick = function() {
        if (zoomBtn.element.classList.contains('e-active')) {
            zoomBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-zoomout-icon';
        } else {
            zoomBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-zoomin-icon';
        }
    };

    mediaBtn.element.onclick = function() {
        if (mediaBtn.element.classList.contains('e-active')) {
            mediaBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-pause-icon';
        } else {
            mediaBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-play-icon';
        }
    };

    undoBtn.element.onclick = function() {
        if (undoBtn.element.classList.contains('e-active')) {
            undoBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-redo-icon';
        } else {
            undoBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-undo-icon';
        }
    };

    filterBtn.element.onclick = function() {
        if (filterBtn.element.classList.contains('e-active')) {
            filterBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-filternone-icon';
        } else {
            filterBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-filter-icon';
        }
    };

    visibleBtn.element.onclick = function() {
        if (visibleBtn.element.classList.contains('e-active')) {
            document.getElementById('content').style.display = 'none';
            visibleBtn.content = 'Show';
            visibleBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-show-icon';
        } else {
            document.getElementById('content').style.display = 'block';
            visibleBtn.content = 'Hide';
            visibleBtn.iconCss = 'e-icons e-hide-icon';
        }
    };
}
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Toolbar</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Toolbar Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="element" class="toggle"></div>
        <br>
        <div id="content">
          This content will be hidden, when you click on hide button and toggle get an active state as show, otherwise it will be visible.
        </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>