Getting started with Blazor Mention Component in Blazor Web App

16 Feb 20246 minutes to read

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

Prerequisites

System requirements for Blazor components

Create a new Blazor Web App

You can create a Blazor Web App using Visual Studio 2022 via Microsoft Templates or the Syncfusion Blazor Extension.

You need to configure the corresponding Interactive render mode and Interactivity location while creating a Blazor Web Application.

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.

If you utilize WebAssembly or Auto render modes in the Blazor Web App need to be install Syncfusion Blazor components NuGet packages within the client project.

Alternatively, you can utilize the following package manager command to achieve the same.

Package Manager
Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.DropDowns -Version 27.2.2
Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes -Version 27.2.2

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 Web App.

If you select an Interactive render mode as WebAssembly or Auto, you need to register the Syncfusion Blazor service in both ~/Program.cs files of your Blazor Web App.

....
using Syncfusion.Blazor;
....
builder.Services.AddSyncfusionBlazor();
....

Add stylesheet and script resources

The theme stylesheet and script can be accessed from NuGet through Static Web Assets. Include the stylesheet reference in the <head> section and the script reference at the end of the <body> in the ~/Components/App.razor file as shown below:

<head>
    ....
    <link href="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes/bootstrap5.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>

<body>
    ....
    <script src="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Core/scripts/syncfusion-blazor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body>

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/.razor file. If an interactivity location as Per page/component in the web app, define a render mode at the top of the ~Pages/.razor component, as follows:

RAZOR
<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="selma@gmail.com" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Russo Kay", EmployeeImage="8", EmailId="russo@gmail.com" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Camden Kate", EmployeeImage="9", EmailId="camden@gmail.com" }
  };
}

Press ctrl+F5 or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to launch the application. This will render the Syncfusion Blazor Mention component in your default web browser.

NOTE

View Sample in GitHub.

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="selma@gmail.com" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Russo Kay", EmployeeImage="8", EmailId="russo@gmail.com" },
    new PersonData() { Name="Camden Kate", EmployeeImage="9", EmailId="camden@gmail.com" }
  };
}