Auto hide show expand collapse icon in EJ2 JavaScript Treeview control

2 May 20237 minutes to read

You can display the expand icon by hovering the mouse over TreeView and hide the expand icon by leaving the mouse from TreeView. Refer to the following code sample to hide/show the expand/collapse icon automatically using the mouse.

/**
 * TreeView Auto hide/show expand/collapse icons
 */

// Hierarchical data source for TreeView component
 var countries = [
    { id: 1, name: 'India', hasChild: true },
    { id: 2, pid: 1, name: 'Assam' },
    { id: 3, pid: 1, name: 'Bihar' },
    { id: 4, pid: 1, name: 'Tamil Nadu' },
    { id: 6, pid: 1, name: 'Punjab' },
    { id: 7, name: 'Brazil', hasChild: true },
    { id: 8, pid: 7, name: 'Paraná' },
    { id: 9, pid: 7, name: 'Ceará' },
    { id: 10, pid: 7, name: 'Acre' },
    { id: 11, name: 'France', hasChild: true },
    { id: 12, pid: 11, name: 'Pays de la Loire' },
    { id: 13, pid: 11, name: 'Aquitaine' },
    { id: 14, pid: 11, name: 'Brittany' },
    { id: 15, pid: 11, name: 'Lorraine' },
    { id: 16, name: 'Australia', hasChild: true },
    { id: 17, pid: 16, name: 'New South Wales' },
    { id: 18, pid: 16, name: 'Victoria' },
    { id: 19, pid: 16, name: 'South Australia' },
    { id: 20, pid: 16, name: 'Western Australia' },
    { id: 21, name: 'China', hasChild: true },
    { id: 22, pid: 21, name: 'Guangzhou' },
    { id: 23, pid: 21, name: 'Shanghai' },
    { id: 24, pid: 21, name: 'Beijing' },
    { id: 25, pid: 21, name: 'Shantou' }
    
];

// Renders treeview
var tree1 = new ej.navigations.TreeView({
    fields: { dataSource: countries, id: 'id', text: 'name', parentID: 'pid', hasChildren: 'hasChild' },
    created: onCreate
});
tree1.appendTo('#tree');

function onCreate(){
  var treeElement = document.getElementById("tree");
  var collapse = treeElement.querySelectorAll('.e-icons.e-icon-collapsible');
  var expand = treeElement.querySelectorAll('.e-icons.e-icon-expandable');
  hideIcon(expand, collapse);
  document.getElementById("tree").addEventListener('mouseenter',function(e) {
    showIcon(expand, collapse);
  })
  document.getElementById("tree").addEventListener('mouseleave',function(e) { 
   hideIcon(expand, collapse);
  })
}

// hides expand/collapse icon on hovering the mouse
function hideIcon(expand, collapse) {
for(var i = 0; i < collapse.length; i++ ){
    collapse[i].setAttribute('style','visibility: hidden');
  }
  for(var j = 0; j < expand.length; j++ ){
    expand[j].setAttribute('style','visibility: hidden');
  }
}

// shows expand/collapse icon while leaving the mouse
function showIcon(expand, collapse) {
for(var i = 0; i < collapse.length; i++ ){
    collapse[i].setAttribute('style',"visibility", "");
  }
  for(var j= 0; j < expand.length; j++ ){
    expand[j].setAttribute('style',"visibility", "");
  }
}
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<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="treeparent">
            <div id="tree"></div>
        </div>
    </div>



<script>
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if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
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