Getting started with React Card

7 Oct 202512 minutes to read

This section explains how to create a simple Card component with basic styling, including configuring the header, actions, and content sections.

Dependencies

The Card component is styled entirely via CSS. To use it, include the appropriate CSS files; no additional JavaScript dependencies are required.

Setup for local development

To set up a React application, use create-vite-app, which provides a faster development environment, smaller bundle sizes, and optimized builds compared to traditional tools like create-react-app. For detailed steps, refer to the Vite installation instructions. Vite sets up your environment using JavaScript and optimizes your application for production.

Note: To create a React application using create-react-app, see the Syncfusion documentation.

To create a new React application, run:

npm create vite@latest my-app

For a TypeScript environment, run:

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react-ts
cd my-app
npm run dev

For a JavaScript environment, run:

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react
cd my-app
npm run dev

Add Syncfusion® packages

All Essential® JS 2 packages are published on the npm public registry.

Install the required package for the Card component:

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-layouts --save
  • The Card CSS files are available in the ej2-layouts package folder. This can be referenced in your application using the following code.

[src/styles/styles.css]

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-layouts/styles/material.css';

Add a simple Card

  • Add the HTML div element with e-card class into your index.html.

[src/index.html]

        <div className = "e-card">
          Sample Card
        </div>

Add a header to the card

You can create cards with a header in a specific structure. For adding header you need to create div element and add e-card-header class.

  • You can include heading inside the card header by adding an div element with e-card-header-caption class, and also content will be added by adding element with e-card-content. For detailed information, refer to the Header and Content.

         <div class = "e-card">                    <!-- Root element -->
        <div class="e-card-header">           <!-- Header container -->
           <div class="e-card-header-caption">    <!-- Caption container -->
              <div class="e-card-header-title"></div>   <!-- Title element -->
          </div>
          <div class="e-card-content"></div>         <!-- Content container -->
       </div>
      </div>

Now run the npm run dev command in the console to start the development server. This command compiles your code and serves the application locally, opening it in the browser.

```
npm run dev
```

Output will be as follows:

[Class-component]

import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
export default class ReactApp extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (<div>
        <div className="e-card" id="basic">
          <div className="e-card-header">
            <div className="e-card-header-caption">
              <div className="e-card-title">Advanced UWP</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="e-card-content">
            Communicating with Windows 10 and Other Apps, the second in a five-part series written by Succinctly series
            author Matteo Pagani. To download the complete white paper, and other papers in the series, visit
            the White Paper section of Syncfusion’s Technology Resource Portal.
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>);
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<ReactApp />, document.getElementById("element"));
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";

export default class ReactApp extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  public render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <div className="e-card" id="basic">
          <div className="e-card-header">
            <div className="e-card-header-caption">
              <div className="e-card-title">Advanced UWP</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="e-card-content">
            Communicating with Windows 10 and Other Apps, the second in a five-part series written by Succinctly series
            author Matteo Pagani. To download the complete white paper, and other papers in the series, visit
            the White Paper section of Syncfusion’s Technology Resource Portal.
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
ReactDOM.render(<ReactApp />, document.getElementById("element"));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Card Sample</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.2.2/ej2-layouts/styles/material.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='element'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

[Functional-component]

import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
function ReactApp() {
    return (<div>
        <div className="e-card" id="basic">
          <div className="e-card-header">
            <div className="e-card-header-caption">
              <div className="e-card-title">Advanced UWP</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="e-card-content">
            Communicating with Windows 10 and Other Apps, the second in a five-part series written by Succinctly series
            author Matteo Pagani. To download the complete white paper, and other papers in the series, visit
            the White Paper section of Syncfusion’s Technology Resource Portal.
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>);
}
ReactDOM.render(<ReactApp />, document.getElementById("element"));
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";

function ReactApp () {

    return (
      <div>
        <div className="e-card" id="basic">
          <div className="e-card-header">
            <div className="e-card-header-caption">
              <div className="e-card-title">Advanced UWP</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="e-card-content">
            Communicating with Windows 10 and Other Apps, the second in a five-part series written by Succinctly series
            author Matteo Pagani. To download the complete white paper, and other papers in the series, visit
            the White Paper section of Syncfusion’s Technology Resource Portal.
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    );

}
ReactDOM.render(<ReactApp />, document.getElementById("element"));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Card Sample</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/31.2.2/ej2-layouts/styles/material.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='element'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

See Also