How to Render ListView with hyper link navigation in React ListView component

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30 Jul 2021 / 1 minute to read

We can use anchor tag along with href attribute in our ListView template property for navigation.

In the below sample, we have rendered ListView with search engines URL.

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index.tsx

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import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import { ListViewComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-lists';

export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {

//Define an array of JSON data
public dataSource: { [key: string]: Object }[] = [
    { name: 'Google', url: 'https://www.google.com' },
    { name: 'Bing', url: 'https://www.bing.com' },
    { name: 'Yahoo', url: 'https://www.yahoo.com' },
    { name: 'Ask.com', url: 'https://www.ask.com' },
    { name: 'AOL.com', url: 'https://www.aol.com' }
];

anchor_template(data: any): JSX.Element {
    return (
        <a target='_blank' href={data.url}>{data.name}</a>
    )};

    render() {
        return (
        <ListViewComponent id='list'
                dataSource={this.dataSource}
                headerTitle = 'Search engines'
                showHeader = {true}
                template= {this.anchor_template as any} >
                </ListViewComponent>
        )
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

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

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React ListView</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/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-lists/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='element'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

#loader {
color: #008cff;
height: 40px;
width: 30%;
position: absolute;
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','calibiri';
font-size: 14px;
top: 45%;
left: 45%;
}

#list {
  display: block;
  max-width: 350px;
  margin: auto;
  border: 1px solid #dddddd;
  border-radius: 3px;
}

#list a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#list .e-list-header {
    background: rgb(2, 120, 215);
    color: white;
    font-size: 19px;
    font-weight: 500;
}

import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import { ListViewComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-lists';
export default class App extends React.Component {
    constructor() {
        super(...arguments);
        //Define an array of JSON data
        this.dataSource = [
            { name: 'Google', url: 'https://www.google.com' },
            { name: 'Bing', url: 'https://www.bing.com' },
            { name: 'Yahoo', url: 'https://www.yahoo.com' },
            { name: 'Ask.com', url: 'https://www.ask.com' },
            { name: 'AOL.com', url: 'https://www.aol.com' }
        ];
    }
    anchor_template(data) {
        return (<a target='_blank' href={data.url}>{data.name}</a>);
    }
    ;
    render() {
        return (<ListViewComponent id='list' dataSource={this.dataSource} headerTitle='Search engines' showHeader={true} template={this.anchor_template}>
                </ListViewComponent>);
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));