Date range slider in React Range Slider component

28 Jul 2021 / 2 minutes to read

The Date formatting can be achieved in ticks and tooltip using renderingTicks and tooltipChange events respectively. The process of formatting is explained in the below sample.

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index.tsx

index.html

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import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { SliderComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';

export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  public min = new Date("2013-06-13").getTime();
  public max = new Date("2013-06-21").getTime();
  public step = 86400000;
  public value = new Date("2013-06-15").getTime();

  // Slider ticks customization
  public ticks: TicksDataModel = { placement: "After", largeStep: 2 * 86400000 };
  public tooltip: TooltipDataModel = { placement: "Before", isVisible: true };

  renderingTicksHandler(args: SliderTickEventArgs) {
    let totalMiliSeconds = Number(args.value);
    // Converting the current milliseconds to the respective date in desired format
    let custom = { year: "numeric", month: "short", day: "numeric" };
    args.text = new Date(totalMiliSeconds).toLocaleDateString("en-us", custom);
  }

  tooltipChangeHandler(args: SliderTooltipEventArgs) {
    let totalMiliSeconds = Number(args.text);
    // Converting the current milliseconds to the respective date in desired format
    let custom = { year: "numeric", month: "short", day: "numeric" };
    args.text = new Date(totalMiliSeconds).toLocaleDateString("en-us", custom);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div id="container">
        <div className="wrap">
          <SliderComponent
            id="slider"
            min={this.min}
            max={this.max}
            value={this.value}
            step={this.step}
            tooltip={this.tooltip}
            ticks={this.ticks}
            showButtons={true}
            tooltipChange={this.tooltipChangeHandler.bind(this) as any}
            renderingTicks={this.renderingTicksHandler.bind(this) as any}
          />
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

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-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-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='element'>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

.sliderwrap {
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.sliderwrap label {
  font-size: 13px;
  font-weight: 100;
  margin-top: 15px;
  padding-bottom: 15px;
}

.wrap {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  height: 100px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 30px 10px;
  width: 460px;
}

.wrap .label {
  text-align: center;
}

.labeltext {
  text-align: center;
}