Getting Started

This section explains how to create a simple Switch, and configure its available functionalities in React, using React quickstart application.

Dependencies

The following list of dependencies are required to use Switch component in your application.

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons

Installation and Configuration

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

Adding Syncfusion packages

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.

To install Switch component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons --save

Adding Switch component to the Application

To include Switch component in your application import the SwitchComponent from ej2-react-buttons package in App.tsx.

Add Switch component in application as shown in below code example.

import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

// Import the Switch.
import { SwitchComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';

// To render Switch.
export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  render() {
    return (
      <SwitchComponent />
    );
  }
}

Adding CSS Reference

Import the Switch component’s required CSS references as follows in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";

Running the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Switch component.

Source

Preview

app.tsx

index.html

index.css

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import { SwitchComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

// To render Switch with checked state.
class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  render() {
    return (
      <SwitchComponent checked={true} />
    );
  }
}
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('switch'));

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

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Switch</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/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-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='switch'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

#loader {
	color: #008cff;
	height: 40px;
	left: 45%;
	position: absolute;
	top: 45%;
	width: 30%;
}

.e-switch-wrapper {
  margin: 18px;
}

Set text on Switch

This section explains how to set onLabel and offLabel texts on Switch. In the following example, onLabel is set as ON and offLabel is set as OFF.