Getting Started

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This section briefly explains how to create a simple SplitButton component and configure its available functionalities in React.

Dependencies

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

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

Installation and configuration

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. You can choose the component that you want to install.

To install SplitButton component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons –save

Adding CSS reference

Import the SplitButton component required CSS references as follows in src/App.css.

/* import the SplitButton dependency styles */
@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";

Adding SplitButton component

Now, you can start adding SplitButton component in the application. For getting started, add the SplitButton component in src/App.tsx file using following code.

Add the below code in the src/App.tsx to initialize the SplitButton.

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { SplitButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

enableRipple(true);

// To render SplitButton.
function App() {

  return (
    <div style=>
      <SplitButtonComponent id="element"/>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

Binding data source

After initialization, populate the SplitButton with data using the items property. Here, an array of string values is passed to the SplitButton component.

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { ItemModel, SplitButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

enableRipple(true);

// To render SplitButton.
function App() {

  let items: ItemModel[] = [
    {
      text: 'Cut',
    },
    {
      text: 'Copy',
    },
    {
      text: 'Paste',
    }];
  return (
  <div style=><SplitButtonComponent  id="element" items = {items}> Paste 
  </SplitButtonComponent>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

Run the application

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 following example shows a basic SplitButton component.

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { SplitButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
// To render SplitButton.
function App() {
    let items = [
        {
            text: 'Cut',
        },
        {
            text: 'Copy',
        },
        {
            text: 'Paste',
        }
    ];
    return (<div>
      <SplitButtonComponent id="element" items={items}> Paste </SplitButtonComponent>
    </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { ItemModel, SplitButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

// To render SplitButton.
function App() {

  let items: ItemModel[] = [
    {
      text: 'Cut',
    },
    {
      text: 'Copy',
    },
    {
      text: 'Paste',
    }];
  return (
  <div>
      <SplitButtonComponent id="element" items = {items}> Paste </SplitButtonComponent>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('button'));

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