Customize the expand and collapse icons in EJ2 JavaScript Treeview control

2 May 202311 minutes to read

You can customize TreeView expand and collapse icons by using the cssClass property of TreeView.
Refer to the sample to customize expand/collapse icons.

ej.base.enableRipple(true);

var hierarchicalData = [
    { id: '01', name: 'Local Disk (C:)', expanded: true,
        subChild: [
            {
                id: '01-01', name: 'Program Files',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '01-01-01', name: '7-Zip' },
                    { id: '01-01-02', name: 'Git' },
                    { id: '01-01-03', name: 'IIS Express' },
                ]
            },
            {
                id: '01-02', name: 'Users', expanded: true,
                subChild: [
                    { id: '01-02-01', name: 'Smith' },
                    { id: '01-02-02', name: 'Public' },
                    { id: '01-02-03', name: 'Admin' },
                ]
            },
            {
                id: '01-03', name: 'Windows',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '01-03-01', name: 'Boot' },
                    { id: '01-03-02', name: 'FileManager' },
                    { id: '01-03-03', name: 'System32' },
                ]
            },
        ]
    },
    {
        id: '02', name: 'Local Disk (D:)',
        subChild: [
            {
                id: '02-01', name: 'Personals',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '02-01-01', name: 'My photo.png' },
                    { id: '02-01-02', name: 'Rental document.docx' },
                    { id: '02-01-03', name: 'Pay slip.pdf' },
                ]
            },
            {
                id: '02-02', name: 'Projects',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '02-02-01', name: 'ASP Application' },
                    { id: '02-02-02', name: 'TypeScript Application' },
                    { id: '02-02-03', name: 'React Application' },
                ]
            },
            {
                id: '02-03', name: 'Office',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '02-03-01', name: 'Work details.docx' },
                    { id: '02-03-02', name: 'Weekly report.docx' },
                    { id: '02-03-03', name: 'Wish list.csv' },
                ]
            },
        ]
    },
    {
        id: '03', name: 'Local Disk (E:)', icon: 'folder',
        subChild: [
            {
                id: '03-01', name: 'Pictures',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '03-01-01', name: 'Wind.jpg' },
                    { id: '03-01-02', name: 'Stone.jpg' },
                    { id: '03-01-03', name: 'Home.jpg' },
                ]
            },
            {
                id: '03-02', name: 'Documents',
                    subChild: [
                    { id: '03-02-01', name: 'Environment Pollution.docx' },
                    { id: '03-02-02', name: 'Global Warming.ppt' },
                    { id: '03-02-03', name: 'Social Network.pdf' },
                ]
            },
            {
                id: '03-03', name: 'Study Materials',
                subChild: [
                    { id: '03-03-01', name: 'UI-Guide.pdf' },
                    { id: '03-03-02', name: 'Tutorials.zip' },
                    { id: '03-03-03', name: 'TypeScript.7z' },
                ]
            },
        ]
    }
];

var treeObj = new ej.navigations.TreeView({
    fields: { dataSource: hierarchicalData, id: 'id', text: 'name', child: 'subChild' },
    cssClass: 'custom'
});
treeObj.appendTo('#tree');
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    <div id="container">
        <div id="treeparent">
            <div id="tree"></div>
        </div>
    </div>



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