Getting Started

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This section explains you the steps required to create a simple Toolbar and demonstrate the basic usage of the Toolbar control.

Dependencies

Below is the list of minimum dependencies required to use the Toolbar component.

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

Setup for Local Development

To easily set up a React application, use create-vite-app, which provides a faster development environment, smaller bundle sizes, and optimized builds compared to traditional tools like create-react-app. For detailed steps, refer to the Vite installation instructions. Vite sets up your environment using JavaScript and optimizes your application for production.

Note: To create a React application using create-react-app, refer to this documentation for more details.

To create a new React application, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app

To set-up a React application in TypeScript environment, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react-ts
cd my-app
npm run dev

To set-up a React application in JavaScript environment, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react
cd my-app
npm run dev

Adding Syncfusion^® packages

All the available Essential^® JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.
To install Accordion component, use the following command

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

Adding CSS reference

Add components style as given below in src/App.css.

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations/styles/material.css';

To refer App.css in the application then import it in the src/App.tsx file.

The Toolbar can be rendered by defining an array of items. An item is rendered with text by defining the default item type as a Button. For more information about item configuration, refer the Item Configuration section.

Import the Toolbar component to your src/App.tsx file using following code.

import { ItemDirective, ItemsDirective, ToolbarComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from "react";

const ReactApp = () => {
  return (
    <ToolbarComponent id='toolbar'>
      <ItemsDirective>
        <ItemDirective text="Cut" />
        <ItemDirective text="Copy" />
        <ItemDirective text="Paste" />
        <ItemDirective type="Separator" />
        <ItemDirective text="Bold" />
        <ItemDirective text="Italic" />
        <ItemDirective text="Underline" />
      </ItemsDirective>
    </ToolbarComponent>
  );
}
export default ReactApp;

Now run the npm run dev command in the console to start the development server. This command compiles your code and serves the application locally, opening it in the browser.

npm run dev

The Toolbar component can be rendered based on the given HTML element using <ToolbarComponent>. You need to follow the below structure of HTML elements to render the Toolbar inside the <ToolbarComponent> tag.

   <ToolbarComponent>   --> Root Toolbar Element
    <div>      --> Toolbar Items Container
       <div>   --> Toolbar Item Element
       </div>
    </div>
  </ToolbarComponent>

index.jsx
index.tsx
index.html
import { ToolbarComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const ReactApp = () => {
    return (<ToolbarComponent>
      <div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Cut</button> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Copy</button> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Paste</button> </div>
        <div className='e-separator'> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Bold</button> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Italic</button> </div>
      </div>
    </ToolbarComponent>);
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('toolbar'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
import { ToolbarComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const ReactApp = () => {
  return (
    <ToolbarComponent>
      <div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Cut</button> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Copy</button> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Paste</button> </div>
        <div className='e-separator'> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Bold</button> </div>
        <div><button className='e-btn e-tbar-btn'>Italic</button> </div>
      </div>
    </ToolbarComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('toolbar'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Toolbar Sample</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="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/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%;
        }

        .custom_bold .e-tbar-btn-text {
            font-weight: 900;
        }

        .custom_italic .e-tbar-btn-text {
            font-style: italic;
        }

        .custom_underline .e-tbar-btn-text {
            text-decoration: underline red;
        }

        .e-txt-casing .e-tbar-btn-text {
            font-variant: small-caps;
        }

        .e-tbar-btn .e-icons {
            font-family: 'Material_toolbar';
            font-size: 16px;
            font-style: normal;
            font-weight: normal;
            font-variant: normal;
            text-transform: none;
        }
    </style>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='toolbar'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

Getting Started

Dependencies

Setup for Local Development

Adding Syncfusion® packages

Adding CSS reference

Initialize the Toolbar with commands

Initialize the Toolbar using HTML elements

See Also

Adding Syncfusion^® packages