How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 11 Dropdown Menu?
This article explains start with syncfusion Angular 11 Dropdown Menu. A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 11 Dropdown Menu with a minimal code configurations.
Prerequisites:
Before start, we need following items to create Angular Dropdown Menu in Angular 11 application.
- Node.js (latest version)
- Angular 11
- Angular CLI
- Typescript 4+
- Visual Studio Code for Editor
Dependencies:
The angular 11 Dropdown menu is created from the Syncfusion ej2-angular-splitbuttons package from npmjs, which are distributed in npm as @syncfusion scoped packages.
Creating Angular Project
- Install Angular cli 11 using following command.
npm install -g @angular/cli@11.2.3
Note: If you would like to follow and run the application in Angular 9, Angular 8, Angular 7, Angular 6 or Angular 5 or Angular 4, you need to replace the CLI command version number with the corresponding angular version number.
npm install -g @angular/cli@<CLI VERSION>
- Create a new Angular 11 project using Angular cli and navigate to that folder.
ng new angular11-app cd angular11-app
Adding Angular Dropdown Menu:
After running the Angular 11 application successfully, configure the Angular Dropdown Menu in this application. Install Angular Dropdown Menu and EJ2 package using following command.
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-splitbuttons --save
The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a Dropdown Menu package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.
- Import Dropdown Menu from installed package in app.module.ts.
- Import and inject the
other required modules within the providers section of
app.module.ts.
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { DropDownButtonModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-splitbuttons'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base'; enableRipple(true); @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, DropDownButtonModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { } - Add the given below angular dropdown menu’s style in style.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-splitbuttons/styles/material.css";
Add the angular Dropdown Menu component in app.component.ts.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-splitbuttons';
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
template: `<button ejs-dropdownbutton [items]= 'items' content='Clipboard'></button>`
})
export class AppComponent {
public items: ItemModel[] = [
{
text: 'Cut'
},
{
text: 'Copy'
},
{
text: 'Paste'
}];
}
- Now serve the
application using following command.
ng serve --open
Once the files are compiled successfully, it will serve the site at localhost:4200
Screenshot:
Conclusion
We hope you enjoyed learning on how to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 11 Dropdown Menu
You can refer to our Angular Dropdown feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our Angular Dropdown example to understand how to create and manipulate data.
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