Getting Started with Blazor Mention Component

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This section briefly explains about how to include Blazor Mention component in your Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

To get started quickly with Blazor Mention, check on the following video:

Prerequisites

Create a new Blazor App in Visual Studio

You can create a Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio via Microsoft Templates or the Syncfusion® Blazor Extension.

Install Syncfusion® Blazor DropDowns and Themes NuGet in the App

To add Blazor Mention component in the app, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search and install Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns and Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes. Alternatively, you can utilize the following package manager command to achieve the same.

Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns -Version 29.1.33
Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes -Version 29.1.33

NOTE

Syncfusion® Blazor components are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic for available NuGet packages list with component details.

Prerequisites

Create a new Blazor App in Visual Studio Code

You can create a Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio Code via Microsoft Templates or the Syncfusion® Blazor Extension.

Alternatively, you can create a WebAssembly application using the following command in the terminal(Ctrl+`).

dotnet new blazorwasm -o BlazorApp
cd BlazorApp

Install Syncfusion® Blazor DropDowns and Themes NuGet in the App

  • Press Ctrl+` to open the integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code.
  • Ensure you’re in the project root directory where your .csproj file is located.
  • Run the following command to install a Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns and Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes NuGet package and ensure all dependencies are installed.
dotnet add package Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns -v 29.1.33
dotnet add package Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes -v 29.1.33
dotnet restore

NOTE

Syncfusion® Blazor components are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic for available NuGet packages list with component details.

Register Syncfusion® Blazor Service

Open ~/_Imports.razor file and import the Syncfusion.Blazor and Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns namespace.

@using Syncfusion.Blazor
@using Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns

Now, register the Syncfusion® Blazor Service in the ~/Program.cs file of your Blazor WebAssembly App.

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Hosting;
using Syncfusion.Blazor;

var builder = WebAssemblyHostBuilder.CreateDefault(args);
builder.RootComponents.Add<App>("#app");
builder.RootComponents.Add<HeadOutlet>("head::after");

builder.Services.AddScoped(sp => new HttpClient { BaseAddress = new Uri(builder.HostEnvironment.BaseAddress) });

builder.Services.AddSyncfusionBlazor();
await builder.Build().RunAsync();
....

Add stylesheet and script resources

The theme stylesheet and script can be accessed from NuGet through Static Web Assets. Include the stylesheet and script references in the <head> section of the ~/index.html file.

<head>
    ....
    <link href="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes/bootstrap5.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Core/scripts/syncfusion-blazor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

NOTE

Check out the Blazor Themes topic to discover various methods (Static Web Assets, CDN, and CRG) for referencing themes in your Blazor application. Also, check out the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your Blazor application.

Add Syncfusion® Blazor Mention component

Add the Syncfusion® Blazor Mention component in the ~/Pages/Index.razor file.

<SfMention TItem="PersonData" DataSource="@EmailData">
    <TargetComponent>
        <div id="commentsMention" placeHolder="Type @@ and tag user" ></div>
    </TargetComponent>
    <ChildContent>
        <MentionFieldSettings Text="Name"></MentionFieldSettings>
    </ChildContent>
</SfMention>
<style>
    #commentsMention {
        min-height: 100px;
        border: 1px solid #D7D7D7;
        border-radius: 4px;
        padding: 8px;
        font-size: 14px;
        width: 600px;
    }

    div#commentsMention[placeholder]:empty:before {
        content: attr(placeholder);
        color: #555;
    }
</style>
@code {
    public class PersonData
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string EmailId { get; set; }
        public string EmployeeImage { get; set; }
    }
    List<PersonData> EmailData = new List<PersonData> {
    new PersonData() { Name="Selma Rose", EmployeeImage="7", EmailId="[email protected]" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Russo Kay", EmployeeImage="8", EmailId="[email protected]" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Camden Kate", EmployeeImage="9", EmailId="[email protected]" }
  };
}
  • Press ctrl+F5 or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to launch the application. This will render the Syncfusion® Blazor Mention component in your default web browser.
Blazor Mention Component

Mention target

The Target property of the Mention component allows you to specify an element on the page to which the mention element should be attached. This can be useful when you want to display the mention element in a specific location on the page. For example, you might use the Target property to attach the mention element to a specific div element or to a specific input field or to a specific textarea field. To specify the target element, you can pass a CSS selector, a DOM element.

In the bellow example, the Target property of the Mention component is set to the CSS selector #mentionTarget, which matches the textarea element with an id of mentionTarget. The mention element will be appended to the textarea element as a child element, allowing the user to select or mention a specific entity within the textarea.

  • RAZOR
    • <textarea id="mentionTarget" placeHolder="Type @@ and tag user"></textarea>

<SfMention TItem="PersonData" Target="#mentionTarget" DataSource="@EmailData">
    <ChildContent>
        <MentionFieldSettings Text="Name"></MentionFieldSettings>
    </ChildContent>
</SfMention>
<style>
    #mentionTarget {
        min-height: 100px;
        border: 1px solid #D7D7D7;
        border-radius: 4px;
        padding: 8px;
        font-size: 14px;
        width: 600px;
    }

    div#mentionTarget[placeholder]:empty:before {
        content: attr(placeholder);
        color: #555;
    }
</style>
@code {
    public class PersonData
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string EmailId { get; set; }
        public string EmployeeImage { get; set; }
    }
    List<PersonData> EmailData = new List<PersonData> {
    new PersonData() { Name="Selma Rose", EmployeeImage="7", EmailId="[email protected]" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Russo Kay", EmployeeImage="8", EmailId="[email protected]" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Camden Kate", EmployeeImage="9", EmailId="[email protected]" }
  };
}
    Blazor Mention target

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