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Show the list items with icons in Angular AutoComplete component

21 Dec 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, the icon classes are mapped with iconCss field.

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import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    // specifies the template string for the AutoComplete component
    template: `<ejs-autocomplete id='atcelement' [dataSource]='sortFormatData' [fields]='fields' [placeholder]='text'></ejs-autocomplete>`
})

export class AppComponent {
    constructor() {
    }
    // defined the array of data
    public 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' }
    ];
    // maps the appropriate column to fields property
    public fields: Object = { value: 'Type', iconCss: 'Class' };
    // set the placeholder to the AutoComplete input
    public text: string = "Find a format";
}
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import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { AutoCompleteModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-dropdowns';
/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,FormsModule, AutoCompleteModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
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import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);