DevExtreme Angular - Overview

The Box widget allows you to arrange various elements within it. This widget is separate and adaptive and acts as the layout's building block.

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The following code adds a simple Box containing three items to your page. These items are plain texts placed in differently-colored rectangles arranged in a row. Equal ratio option values ensure they have equal widths.

jQuery
HTML
JavaScript
CSS
<div id="boxContainer">
    <div class="box-item orange" data-options="dxItem: { ratio: 1 }"> Item 1 </div>
    <div class="box-item yellow" data-options="dxItem: { ratio: 1 }"> Item 2 </div>
    <div class="box-item green"  data-options="dxItem: { ratio: 1 }"> Item 3 </div>
</div>
$(function() {
    $("#boxContainer").dxBox({
        direction: "row",
        height: 100
    });
});
.box-item {
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 34px;
    font-size: 16px;
}

.orange { background: #f39e6c }
.yellow { background: #f5e5a6 }
.green { background: #94d7c7 }
Angular
HTML
TypeScript
CSS
<dx-box
    direction="row"
    [height]="100">
    <dxi-item class="box-item orange" [ratio]="1"> Item 1 </dxi-item>
    <dxi-item class="box-item yellow" [ratio]="1"> Item 2 </dxi-item>
    <dxi-item class="box-item green"  [ratio]="1"> Item 3 </dxi-item>
</dx-box>
import { DxBoxModule } from "devextreme-angular";
// ...
export class AppComponent {
    // ...
}
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        // ...
        DxBoxModule
    ],
    // ...
})
.box-item {
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 34px;
    font-size: 16px;
}

.orange { background: #f39e6c }
.yellow { background: #f5e5a6 }
.green { background: #94d7c7 }

Note that the Box items in the code above are declared using the dxItem markup component. An object passed to this component can have the following fields:

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