What’s New in Essential JS 2

Common

Tailwind CSS theming

Tailwind CSS theme has been added to all the Syncfusion EJ2 controls.

Charts

Spline range area

A new, interactive chart series called spline range area has been added. The spline range area chart is used to display continuous data points as a set of splines that vary between high and low values over intervals of time and across different categories.

DatePicker

Masked date input

This feature allows users to enter valid input dates and the correct format during data entry.

DateTime Picker

Masked date-time input

This feature allows users to enter valid input dates and the correct format during data entry.

Word Processor

Text box shape with square wrapping style

This feature preserves the text box shape with square wrapping style when viewing a Word document.

Image position and wrapping styles

This feature preserves the images with position properties and wrapping styles when viewing a Word document.

Table paste options

This feature allows the user to copy the table and paste it on an existing table within a Word document as a new row, new column, or nested table.

Gantt Chart

Time zones

Show scheduled date values in a specific time zone even when different end users are in different time zones.

DataGrid

Drag and drop rows within a grid with virtual scrolling enabled

This feature allows users to drag and drop rows within a grid with virtual scrolling enabled.

Editing with column virtualization

Provides editing support for the grid while column virtualization is enabled.

Kanban

Freeze swim lane rows

You can show a frozen swim lane row at top of the content when scrolling. It will change once you reach another swim lane row while scrolling.

PDF Viewer

Annotations

• Add annotations such as shapes, measurements , text markup, stamps, sticky notes, free text, and ink programmatically.

• Annotations such as shapes, measurements, text markup, stamps, sticky notes, free text, and ink are now supported in mobile browsers.

Form designer

Include form fields like text box, password box, check box, button, radio button, combo box, list box, drop-down box, signature field, and initial field programmatically or through user interaction.

Pivot Table

Fields Panel

The fields panel located above the grouping bar displays the fields available in the data source but that are not bound to the report. The fields can be dragged into the appropriate axes. Any field removed from any axis will automatically be added to the fields panel.

Rich Text Editor

List style types

This feature allows users to change the bullet appearance for unordered lists to circles or squares. Users can also apply different numbering formats for ordered lists such as lowercase Greek or uppercase Roman.

Scheduler

Adaptive layout

This feature enables rendering a mobile-adaptive layout on desktop devices. Also, it lets you render a desktop view on mobile devices.

First month of the year

Customize the first month of the year in year and timeline year views.

Year views interval support

Customize the total number of months to be displayed in year and timeline year views.

Year views template support

Customize day and month headers using template elements in year and timeline year views.

Print improvements

Print all appointments instead of only the viewport in the agenda view.

Stock Chart

Legend

This feature allows users to add legends to the stock chart. With the help of legends, users can toggle the visibility of series.

TimePicker

Masked time input

This feature allows users to enter valid input times and the correct format during data entry.