Angular Dropdown

Angular dropdown and autocomplete working example on codesandbox.

Dropdown component

dropdown.component.ts

import {
  AfterViewInit,
  Component,
  ElementRef,
  ViewChild,
  Input
} from "@angular/core";

@Component({
  selector: "app-dropdown",
  templateUrl: "./dropdown.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./dropdown.component.css"]
})

export class DropdownComponent implements AfterViewInit {
  @Input()
  properties: Object;

  @ViewChild("dropdown") dropdown: ElementRef;

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    jSuites.dropdown(this.dropdown.nativeElement, this.properties);
  }
}

Component state

app.component.ts

import { Component } from "@angular/core";

@Component({
  selector: "app-root",
  templateUrl: "./app.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./app.component.css"]
})
export class AppComponent {
  value = "";

  setValue = (newValue) => {
    this.value = newValue;
  };

  handleDropdownChange = (el, index, oldValue, newValue) => {
    this.setValue(newValue);
  };
}

Component template

dropdown.component.html

<div #dropdown></div>

Importing the component

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from "@angular/platform-browser";
import { NgModule } from "@angular/core";

import { AppComponent } from "./app.component";
import { DropdownComponent } from "./dropdown/dropdown.component";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent, DropdownComponent],
  imports: [BrowserModule],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})

export class AppModule {}

Component usage

app.component.html

<h3>Angular dropdown example</h3>
<app-dropdown
  [properties]="{
      value: value,
      data: ['Pizza', 'Hamburguer', 'Banana'],
      onchange: handleDropdownChange
  }"
></app-dropdown>
<h3>Dropdown value: {{ value }}</h3>

NOTE: Make sure to import the jsuites.js and jsuites.css in your angular.json or angular-cli.json

"styles": ["styles.css", "node_modules/jsuites/dist/jsuites.css"], "scripts": ["node_modules/jsuites/dist/jsuites.js"]