Arrow Position

19 Apr 20174 minutes to read

To provide a good look and feel for Split Button, position of arrow in Split Button is important. Using arrowPosition property, you can easily customize the position of arrow inside Split Button without using any complex CSS. arrowPosition property is applicable for both Split Button and Dropdown Button. This property represent the position of arrow with menu content.

List of arrow position

Arrow Position	Description
left	Support for arrow in left.
right	Support for arrow in right.
top	Support for arrow in top.
bottom	Support for arrow in bottom.

The following steps explain you the details on rendering the Split Button with above mentioned arrow position options.

In the HTML page, add the following button elements to configure Split Button widget.

HTML

<div class="control">
    <button id="spltbutton11">login</button>
    <ul id="Ul11">
        <li><span>User</span></li>
        <li><span>Guest</span></li>
        <li><span>Admin</span></li>
    </ul>
    <button id="spltbutton21">login</button>
    <ul id="Ul21">
        <li><span>User</span></li>
        <li><span>Guest</span></li>
        <li><span>Admin</span></li>
    </ul>
    <button id="spltbutton31">login</button>
    <ul id="Ul31">
        <li><span>User</span></li>
        <li><span>Guest</span></li>
        <li><span>Admin</span></li>
    </ul>
    <button id="spltbutton41">login</button>
    <ul id="Ul41">
        <li><span>User</span></li>
        <li><span>Guest</span></li>
        <li><span>Admin</span></li>
    </ul>
</div>

JAVASCRIPT

// Initialize the control in JavaScript
    $(function () {
        $("#spltbutton11").ejSplitButton({
            size: "large",
            showRoundedCorner: true,
            contentType: "imageonly",
            targetID: "Ul11",
            prefixIcon: "e-icon e-login",
            arrowPosition: "left"
        });
        $("#spltbutton21").ejSplitButton({
            size: "mini",
            showRoundedCorner: true,
            targetID: "Ul21",
            arrowPosition: "top"
        });
        $("#spltbutton31").ejSplitButton({
            size: "small",
            showRoundedCorner: true,
            targetID: "Ul31",
            arrowPosition: "bottom"
        });
        $("#spltbutton41").ejSplitButton({
            size: "medium",
            showRoundedCorner: true,
            targetID: "Ul41",
            arrowPosition: "right"
        });
    });

CSS

<style>
    .e-split {
        float: left;
        padding-left: 65px;
    }
</style>

Execute the above code to render the following output.