How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 7 DropDownButton ?

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A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 7 DropDownButton with a minimal code configurations.

Angular 7 DropDownButton

The following section explains the steps required to create a simple angular 7 DropDownButton component.

Prerequisites

Before start, we need following items to create Angular DropDownButton in Angular 7 application.

Node.js (latest version)
Angular
Angular CLI
Visual studio code for editor.
Typescript 2.6+

Dependencies

The angular 7 DropDownButton 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 7 using following command.
```
npm install -g @angular/cli@7.0.5
```

Note:

If you would like to follow and run the application in 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 7 project using Angular cli and navigate to that folder.
```
ng new <project name>
cd <project name>
```

Adding Angular DropDownButton

After running the Angular 7 application successfully, configure the Angular DropDownButton in this application. Install Angular DropDownButton and EJ2 package using following command. The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a DropDownButton package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.
```
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-splitbuttons --save
```

Import DropDownButton 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 DropDownButton’s styles in styles.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 DropDownButton 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 
```

Once the files are compiled successfully, it will serve the site at localhost:4200

Screenshot:

Dropdown button button

Summary

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