Get selected items from listview in React Listview component

30 Jan 202310 minutes to read

Single or many items can be selected by users in the ListView component. An API is used to get selected items from the
list items. This is called as the
getSelectedItems
method.

getSelectedItems method

This is used to get the details of the currently selected item from the list items. It returns the
SelectedItem |
SelectedCollection

The getSelectedItems method returns the following items from the selected list items.

Return type Purpose
text Returns the text of selected item lists
data Returns the whole data of selected list items, i.e., returns the fields data of selected li.
item Returns the collections of list items
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { ListViewComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-lists';
import { ButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
function App() {
    let listobj = null;
    // define the array of Json
    let data = [
        { text: "Hennessey Venom", id: "list-01" },
        { text: "Bugatti Chiron", id: "list-02", isChecked: true },
        { text: "Bugatti Veyron Super Sport", id: "list-03" },
        { text: "SSC Ultimate Aero", id: "list-04", isChecked: true },
        { text: "Koenigsegg CCR", id: "list-05" },
        { text: "McLaren F1", id: "list-06" },
        { text: "Aston Martin One- 77", id: "list-07", isChecked: true },
        { text: "Jaguar XJ220", id: "list-08" }
    ];
    const [state, SetState] = React.useState({
        selectedItemsValue: []
    });
    function getSelectedItems() {
        if (listobj) {
            SetState({
                selectedItemsValue: listobj.getSelectedItems().data
            });
        }
    }
    return (<div>
        <ListViewComponent id="list" dataSource={data} showCheckBox={true} ref={scope => {
            listobj = scope;
        }}/>
        <ButtonComponent id="btn" onClick={getSelectedItems.bind(this)}>
          Get Selected Items
        </ButtonComponent>
        <div>
          <table>
            <tbody>
              <tr>
                <th>Text</th>
                <th>Id</th>
              </tr>

              {state.selectedItemsValue.map((item, index) => {
            return (<tr key={index}>
                    <td>{item.text}</td>
                    <td>{item.id}</td>
                  </tr>);
        })}
            </tbody>
          </table>
        </div>
      </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { ListViewComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-lists';
import { ButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';

function App() {
  let listobj: ListViewComponent | null = null;
  // define the array of Json
  let data: { [key: string]: Object }[] = [
    { text: "Hennessey Venom", id: "list-01" },
    { text: "Bugatti Chiron", id: "list-02", isChecked: true },
    { text: "Bugatti Veyron Super Sport", id: "list-03" },
    { text: "SSC Ultimate Aero", id: "list-04", isChecked: true },
    { text: "Koenigsegg CCR", id: "list-05" },
    { text: "McLaren F1", id: "list-06" },
    { text: "Aston Martin One- 77", id: "list-07", isChecked: true },
    { text: "Jaguar XJ220", id: "list-08" }
  ];
  const [state,SetState] =React.useState({
      selectedItemsValue: []
  });
  function getSelectedItems(): void {
    if (listobj) {
        SetState({
          selectedItemsValue: (listobj.getSelectedItems() as any).data
          });
    }
  }

    return (
      <div>
        <ListViewComponent
          id="list"
          dataSource={data}
          showCheckBox={true}
          ref={scope => {
            listobj = scope;
          }}
        />
        <ButtonComponent id="btn" onClick={getSelectedItems.bind(this)}>
          Get Selected Items
        </ButtonComponent>
        <div>
          <table>
            <tbody>
              <tr>
                <th>Text</th>
                <th>Id</th>
              </tr>

              {state.selectedItemsValue.map((item: any, index: number) => {
                return (
                  <tr key={index}>
                    <td>{item.text}</td>
                    <td>{item.id}</td>
                  </tr>
                );
              })}
            </tbody>
          </table>
        </div>
      </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));