Getting started with React FloatingActionButton component

30 Jan 2023 / 3 minutes to read

This section explains how to create a simple Floating Action Button and demonstrate the basic usage of the Floating Action Button component in an React environment.

Dependencies

The list of dependencies required to use the Floating Action Button component in your application is given below:

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons

Installation and Configuration

You can use Create-react-app to setup the applications. To install create-react-app run the following command.

npm install -g create-react-app

Start a new project using create-react-app command as follows

create-react-app quickstart --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts

cd quickstart

create-react-app quickstart

cd quickstart

‘react-scripts-ts’ is used for creating React app with typescript.

Adding Syncfusion packages

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.

To install Floating Action Button component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons --save

Adding Floating Action Button Component to the Application

To include the Floating Action Button component in your application import the FabComponent from ej2-react-buttons package in App.tsx.

Add the Floating Action Button component in application as shown in below code example.

{/* Import the Floating Action Button */}.
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

{/* To render Floating Action Button. */}
function App() {
    return (
        <FabComponent id='fab'></FabComponent>
    );
}
export default App;

{ /* Import the Floating Action Button */ }
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';
{ /* To render Floating Action Button. */ }
function App() {
    return (<FabComponent id='fab'></FabComponent>);
}
export default App;

Adding CSS reference

Import the Floating Action Button component’s required CSS references as follows in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";

Running the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Floating Action Button component.

Source

Preview

app.jsx

index.html

app.tsx

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
function App() {
    return (<div>
            <div id="targetElement" style={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}></div>
            
            <FabComponent id='fab' content='Add' target='#targetElement'></FabComponent>
        </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
            
    <title>Syncfusion React Floating Action Button</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="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.38/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.38/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
	<link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='button'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

function App() {
    return (
        <div>
            <div id="targetElement" style={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}></div>
            {/* To render Floating Action Button with position. */ }
            <FabComponent id='fab' content='Add' target='#targetElement'></FabComponent>
        </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));

Click event

The floating action button control triggers the onclick event when you click on the floating action button. You can use this event to perform the required action.