This section explains how to create a simple MultiSelect component and configure its available functionalities in React.
The following list of dependencies are required to use the MultiSelect
component in your application.
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-data
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-lists
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons
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
All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in
npmjs.com
public registry.
You can choose the component that you want to install.
To install MultiSelect component, use the following command
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns --save
Now, you can start adding MultiSelect component in the application. For getting started, add the
MultiSelect component in src/App.tsx
file using following code.
Add the below code in the src/App.tsx
to initialize the MultiSelect.
import { MultiSelectComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
public render() {
return (
// specifies the tag for render the MultiSelect component
<MultiSelectComponent id='mtselement'/>
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));
Import the MultiSelect component required CSS references as follows in src/App.css
.
/* import the MultiSelect dependency styles */
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css";
After initialization, populate the data using dataSource property. Here, an array of string values is passed to the MultiSelect component.
import { MultiSelectComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
// define the array of data
private sportsData: string[] = ['Badminton', 'Basketball', 'Cricket', 'Football', 'Golf', 'Gymnastics', 'Hockey', 'Rugby', 'Snooker', 'Tennis'];
public render() {
return (
// specifies the tag for render the MultiSelect component
<MultiSelectComponent id="mtselement" dataSource={this.sportsData} />
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));
After completing the configuration required to render a basic MultiSelect, run the following command to display the output in your default browser.
npm start
import { MultiSelectComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
// define the array of data
private sportsData: string[] = ['Badminton', 'Cricket', 'Football', 'Golf', 'Tennis'];
public render() {
return (
// specifies the tag for render the MultiSelect component
<MultiSelectComponent id="mtselement" dataSource={this.sportsData} placeholder="Find a game" />
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Syncfusion React MultiSelect</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-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-buttons/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>
<style>
#loader {
color: #008cff;
height: 40px;
left: 45%;
position: absolute;
top: 45%;
width: 30%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='sample' style="margin: 20px auto 0; width:250px;">
<div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
By default, the width of the popup list automatically adjusts according to the MultiSelect input element’s width and the height of the popup list has ‘300px’.
You can also customize the suggestion list height and width using popupHeight and popupWidth properties respectively.
In the following sample, popup list’s width and height are configured.
import { MultiSelectComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-dropdowns';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
// define the array of data
private sportsData: string[] = ['Badminton', 'Basketball', 'Cricket', 'Football', 'Golf', 'Gymnastics', 'Hockey', 'Rugby','Snooker', 'Tennis'];
public render() {
return (
// specifies the tag for render the MultiSelect component
<MultiSelectComponent id="mtselement" dataSource={this.sportsData} popupHeight="250px" popupWidth="250px" placeholder="Find a game" />
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Syncfusion React MultiSelect</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-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-buttons/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>
<style>
#loader {
color: #008cff;
height: 40px;
left: 45%;
position: absolute;
top: 45%;
width: 30%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='sample' style="margin: 20px auto 0; width:250px;">
<div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>