Items

The Items represent the content of the AppBar. The items configuration accepts a collection of objects that will be rendered inside the AppBar widget. There are two types of items that developers can choose from:

• Content Items
• Spacer

Content Items

There are two approaches to using templates with Content Items:

• You can use the the template option exposed by contentItem to consume and render HTML.
• You can supply an evaluated kendo.template to the configuration.

The following example shows how to utilize both approaches:

    <script id="search-template" type="text/x-kendo-tmpl">
        <span class="k-textbox k-display-flex">
            <input autocomplete="off" placeholder="Search..." title="Search..." class="k-input">
            <span class="k-input-icon">
                <span class="k-icon k-i-search"></span>
            </span>
        </span>
    </script>
    
    <div id="appbar"></div>

    <script>
        $("#appbar").kendoAppBar({
            items: [
                { template: '<a class="k-button" href="\\#"><span class="k-icon k-i-menu"></span></a>', type: "contentItem" },
                { type: "spacer", width: "12px" },
                { template: kendo.template($("#search-template").html()), type: "contentItem" }
            ]
        });
    </script>    

Spacer

The spacer item could be utilized to easily separate the content items from one another.

    <div id="appbar"></div>

    <script>
        $("#appbar").kendoAppBar({
            items: [
                { template: '<h3>AppBar Demo</h3>', type: "contentItem" },
                { width: 16, type: "spacer" },
                { template: '<a class="k-button" href="\\#"><span class="k-icon k-i-menu"></span></a>', type: "contentItem" }
            ]
        });
    </script>

See Also

• Overview of the AppBar (Demo)
• JavaScript API Reference of the AppBar