Show the list items with icons in React MultiSelect component

24 May 2022 / 1 minute to read

You can render icons to the list items by mapping the iconCss field. This iconCss field create a span in the list item with mapped class name to allow styling as per your need.

In the following sample, icon classes are mapped with iconCss field.

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index.jsx

index.html

styles.css

index.tsx

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 {
    constructor() {
        super(...arguments);
        // define the array of data
        this.sortFormatData = [
            { class: 'asc-sort', type: 'Sort A to Z', id: '1' },
            { class: 'dsc-sort', type: 'Sort Z to A ', id: '2' },
            { class: 'filter', type: 'Filter', id: '3' },
            { class: 'clear', type: 'Clear', id: '4' }
        ];
        // map the icon column to iconCSS field.
        this.fields = { text: 'type', iconCss: 'class', value: 'id' };
    }
    render() {
        return (
        // specifies the tag for render the MultiSelect component
        <MultiSelectComponent id="mtselement" dataSource={this.sortFormatData} fields={this.fields} placeholder="Select a format"/>);
    }
}
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="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.57/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.57/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.57/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.57/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>

.e-list-icon {
    line-height: 1.3;
    padding-right: 10px;
    text-indent: 5px;
}
.asc-sort:before {
    content: '\ea91';
    font-family: 'e-icons';  
    font-size: 20px;

}
.dsc-sort:before {
    content: '\ea98';
    font-family: 'e-icons';   
    font-size: 20px;
}
.filter:before {
    content: '\ea77';
    font-family: 'e-icons';  
    font-size: 20px;
    opacity: 0.78;
}
.clear:before {
    content: '\ec0f';
    font-family: 'e-icons';  
    font-size: 20px;
}

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 sortFormatData: { [key: string]: Object }[] = [
        { class: 'asc-sort', type: 'Sort A to Z', id: '1' },
        { class: 'dsc-sort', type: 'Sort Z to A ', id: '2' },
        { class: 'filter', type: 'Filter', id: '3' },
        { class: 'clear', type: 'Clear', id: '4' }
    ];

    // map the icon column to iconCSS field.
    private fields: object = { text: 'type', iconCss: 'class', value: 'id' };

    public render() {
        return (
             // specifies the tag for render the MultiSelect component
            <MultiSelectComponent id="mtselement" dataSource={this.sortFormatData} fields={this.fields} placeholder="Select a format" />
        );
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));