DevExtreme Angular - Customize Item Appearance
For a minor customization of List items, you can use the default item template. This template defines the appearance of an item depending on whether specific fields are present or absent from the item's data object. For example, the following code generates three items: each item has a badge, the second is disabled and the third is hidden.
jQuery
var fruits = [ { text: "Apples", badge: 10 }, { text: "Oranges", badge: 12, disabled: true }, { text: "Lemons", badge: 15, visible: false } ]; $(function() { $("#listContainer").dxList({ dataSource: fruits }); });
Angular
import { DxListModule } from 'devextreme-angular'; // ... export class AppComponent { fruits = [ { text: "Apples", badge: 10 }, { text: "Oranges", badge: 12, disabled: true }, { text: "Lemons", badge: 15, visible: false } ]; } @NgModule({ imports: [ // ... DxListModule ], // ... })
<dx-list [dataSource]="fruits"> </dx-list>
Using the default item template is the easiest way to customize an item, but it lacks flexibility. Instead, you can define a custom template for widget items. For Angular, AngularJS, and Knockout apps, DevExtreme provides a markup component called dxTemplate. The following code shows how you can use dxTemplate to define a template for List items.
Angular
<dx-list [dataSource]="fruits" itemTemplate="listItem"> <div *dxTemplate="let item of 'listItem'"> <b>{{item.name}}</b><br /> <p style="margin:0px">{{item.count}}</p> </div> </dx-list>
import { DxListModule } from 'devextreme-angular'; // ... export class AppComponent { fruits = [ { name: "Apples", count: 10 }, { name: "Oranges", count: 12 }, { name: "Lemons", count: 15 }, { name: "Pears", count: 20 }, { name: "Pineapples", count: 3 } ]; } @NgModule({ imports: [ // ... DxListModule ], // ... })
AngularJS
<div ng-controller="DemoController"> <div dx-list="{ dataSource: fruits, itemTemplate: 'listItem' }" dx-item-alias="fruit"> <div data-options="dxTemplate: { name: 'listItem' }"> <b>{{ fruit.name }}</b><br /> <p style="margin:0px">{{ fruit.count }}</p> </div> </div> </div>
angular.module('DemoApp', ['dx']) .controller('DemoController', function ($scope) { $scope.fruits = [ { name: "Apples", count: 10 }, { name: "Oranges", count: 12 }, { name: "Lemons", count: 15 }, { name: "Pears", count: 20 }, { name: "Pineapples", count: 3 } ]; });
dx-item-alias
directive specifies the variable that is used to access the item object.Knockout
<div data-bind="dxList: { dataSource: fruits, itemTemplate: 'listItem' }"> <div data-options="dxTemplate: { name: 'listItem' }"> <b data-bind="text: name"></b><br /> <p data-bind="text: count" style="margin:0px"></p> </div> </div>
var viewModel = { fruits: [ { name: "Apples", count: 10 }, { name: "Oranges", count: 12 }, { name: "Lemons", count: 15 }, { name: "Pears", count: 20 }, { name: "Pineapples", count: 3 } ] }; ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
If you use jQuery alone, combine the HTML markup for items manually with jQuery DOM manipulation methods. To apply this markup, use the itemTemplate callback function as shown in the following code.
var fruits = [ { name: "Apples", count: 10 }, { name: "Oranges", count: 12 }, { name: "Lemons", count: 15 }, { name: "Pears", count: 20 }, { name: "Pineapples", count: 3 } ]; $(function() { $("#listContainer").dxList({ dataSource: fruits, itemTemplate: function(data, _, element) { element.append( $("<b>").text(data.fruit), $("<br />"), $("<p>").text(data.count).css("margin", 0) ) } }); });
You can also customize an individual List item. For this purpose, declare a template for this item as a script and pass its id
to the template field.
<script id="individualTemplate" type="text/html"> <!-- ... --> </script>
var fruits = [ { name: "Apples", count: 10 }, { name: "Oranges", count: 12, template: $("#individualTemplate") }, // ... ];
In addition, you can use a 3rd-party template engine to perform the needed customizations. For more information, see the 3rd-Party Template Engines article.
View Built-In Template Engine Demo View 3rd-Party Template Engine Demo
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