What Is Tree View?
A tree view or a tree structure is a UI component that provides a hierarchical view of your complex data structures.
Some items (we’ve called nodes) in a tree view may have a number of subitems, and the user can expand & collapse them by clicking on the parent node.
What Can Tree View Be Used For?
A tree view can be used to present any hierarchical data such as nested lists, multi-level menus, and folder data.
The Best Tree View Components
Here is a list of the 10 best and free Tree View generators built using Vanilla JavaScript or Pure CSS. Feel free to download and use them in the next project where you want to present the data in a hierarchical tree structure. Enjoy.
Last Updated: Jan 18, 2023
1. Dynamic Tree View With Checkboxes – Treejs
A lightweight tree view plugin that displays hierarchical data in a collapsible, selectable tree structure with checkboxes.
2. Create A Simple Tree View Using Vanilla JavaScript – js-treeview
A minimal Javascript library used to create an expandable/collapsible tree view (fold structure) from an object array.
3. Full Featued File/Folder Tree In Pure JavaScript – TreeJS
A simple, fast, standalone JavaScript library to dynamically render a folder tree that behaviors like the Windows’ File Browser.
4. Simple Folder Tree With JSON And JavaScript – tree.js
A simple, flexible tree library which dynamically renders a tree view of a directory/folder from hierarchical JSON data you provide.
5. Collapsible Sortable Toggleable Data Tree In JavaScript – Pickle Tree
A JavaScript tree view plugin to render a collapsible, sortable (draggable) multi-level tree view from hierarchical data, with iOS-style switches that allow the user to toggle on/off the nodes.
6. vanilla-tree-viewer
A minimalist file browser for compactly displaying several files at once.
7. Present JSON Data As An SEO-friendly Tree – TreeView
An SEO-friendly JSON Viewer to present your JSON data in expandable hierarchical HTML lists just like a tree structure.
8. Render JSON Data As A Tree View – json-view
Yet another JSON viewer library that renders your JSON data as a collapsible and expandable tree structure for better readability.
9. Semantic Hierarchy Tree In Pure CSS – Treeflex
The Treeflex CSS library lets you create a flexible, responsive, semantic, SEO-friendly hierarchy tree from nested HTML lists.
10. Pretty Clean Tree Diagram In Pure CSS
A Pure CSS solution to generate a pretty clean tree diagram from nested HTML lists.
More Resources About Tree View:
View our Tree View section for more JavaScrilt & CSS implementations of the tree view. And here are a few resources about tree view you might find useful: