DevExtreme jQuery/JS - Customize the View

Similar to the slide-out menu, the view also demands a template to be specified. For example, in the following code, the view contains the Toolbar and the Chart widgets. They are both placed into a dxTemplate whose name is assigned to the contentTemplate option of the SlideOutView. All the other code configures the Toolbar and the Chart and does not affect the SlideOutView directly.

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JavaScript
CSS
<div id="slideOutView">
    <div data-options="dxTemplate: { name: 'content' }">
        <div id="toolbar"></div>
        <div id="chart"></div>
    </div>
    <div data-options="dxTemplate: { name: 'treeView' }">
        <div id="treeView"></div>
    </div>
</div>
$(function() {
    var slideOutView = $("#slideOutView").dxSlideOutView({
        menuTemplate: 'treeView',
        contentTemplate: 'content'
    }).dxSlideOutView("instance");

    var toolbar = $("#toolbar").dxToolbar({
        dataSource: [{
            widget: 'dxButton',
            options: {
                icon: 'menu',
                onClick: function (e) {
                    slideOutView.showMenu();
                }
            },
            location: 'before'
        }, {
            text: "Title",
            location: 'center'
        }]
    }).dxToolbar("instance");

    var chart = $("#chart").dxChart({
        dataSource: [],
        commonSeriesSettings: { type: 'bar', argumentField: "text" },
        series: [
            { valueField: "china", name: "China" },
            { valueField: "usa", name: "USA" },
            { valueField: "turkey", name: "Turkey" }
        ],
        legend: {
            orientation: "horizontal",
            verticalAlignment: "bottom",
            horizontalAlignment: "center"
        },
        valueAxis: {
            label: {
                format: { type: "largeNumber", precision: 1 }
            }
        }
    }).dxChart("instance");

    $("#treeView").dxTreeView({
        // TreeView is configured in the "Customize the Menu" article
    });
});
#slideOutView {
    height: auto;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0; 
    bottom: 0;
    width: 100%;
}

The contentTemplate option can also accept a function combining the HTML markup. In this case, you do not need to specify any markup for the view in the HTML file.

HTML
JavaScript
<div id="slideOutView">
    <div data-options="dxTemplate: { name: 'treeView' }">
        <div id="treeView"></div>
    </div>
</div>
$(function() {
    var slideOutView = $("#slideOutView").dxSlideOutView({
        menuTemplate: 'treeView',
        contentTemplate: function (view) {
            view.append(
                $("<div />").attr("id", "toolbar"),
                $("<div />").attr("id", "chart")
            )
        }
    }).dxSlideOutView("instance");

    // The rest is omitted for brevity
});

In addition, you can use a 3rd-party template engine to customize the view. For more information, see the 3rd-Party Template Engines article.

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