react-clickout-handler
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A flexible clickout handler for React
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react-clickout-handler
A React component to handle clicking outside of an element.
Features
- Wrap a single element or multiple elements to watch for clickout behavior
- Ignore one or more elements (clickout behavior won't be triggered) by adding them to the
ignoredElements
prop - Enable or disable the clickout behavior on the fly with the
enabled
prop
Installation
yarn add react-clickout-handler
or
npm install --save react-clickout-handler
Getting Started
import React from 'react'
import ClickOutHandler from 'react-clickout-handler'
const MyComponent = () => {
const handleClickOut = () => {
console.log('clicked out!')
}
return (
<ClickOutHandler onClickOut={handleClickOut}>
<div className='modal'>
This is a modal! Click outside to close it.
</div>
</ClickOutHandler>
)
}
Props
| Prop | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------|---------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| children
| Node | ({ [string]: Ref }) => any
| true | | The element(s) you want to trigger the onClickOut
callback when clicked outside of |
| enabled
| boolean
| false | true
| Enables or disables the clickout behavior. This can be useful to ensure the onClickOut
callback is only executed when you want it to be. |
| events
| string[]
| false | ['mousedown', 'touchstart']
| Allows for specifying custom events to trigger the onClickOut
callback |
| ignoredElements
| Object[]
| false | []
| An array of refs for elements to exclude from triggering the clickout behavior |
| refProp
| string
| false | ref
| Specify a prop name to use for getting a ref to the wrapped component. Useful if you need to get the ref for a "composed" component, or if you're using something like styled-components, which requires use of innerRef
to get the ref of a styled component. |
| wrapWith
| ElementType
| false | null
| Specify what type of element to wrap the children with. Can be a React component or string such as div
. If this prop is not provided, the ClickOutHandler
component will either clone the child element (if single child) or wrap the children in a div
(if multiple children). |
| onClickOut
| (ev: Event) => any
| true | | Function to be called when the clickout behavior is triggered. Receives the click event as an argument. |
Examples
Excluding element(s)
If there are any elements outside of your ClickOutHandler component that you do not want to trigger the clickout behavior when clicked, you can pass a ref to the ignoredElements
prop.
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import ClickOutHandler from 'react-clickout-handler'
export default class MyComponent extends Component {
state = {
data: ''
}
handleChange = (data) => {
this.setState({ data })
}
save = () => {
apiCall(this.state.data)
}
setRef = (el) => { this.saveButton = el }
render() {
return (
<div id='my-app'>
<ClickOutHandler
ignoredElements={[this.saveButton]}
onClickOut={handleClickOut}
>
<SomeComponent onChange={this.handleChange} />
</ClickOutHandler>
<button ref={this.setRef} onClick={this.save}>
Save
</button>
</div>
)
}
}
Refs
ClickOutHandler
relies on having a ref to its immediate child. If the child is unable to directly accept a ref
prop, there are two options:
Use the refProp
prop
import React from 'react'
import ClickOutHandler from 'react-clickout-handler'
import styled from 'styled-components'
const MyDiv = styled.div`
background-color: red;
`
const handleClickOut = () => {
console.log('You clicked me!')
}
const MyComponent = () => (
<ClickOutHandler onClickOut={handleClickOut} refProp='innerRef'>
<MyDiv />
</ClickOutHandler>
)
Pass a function as the child
import React from 'react'
import ClickOutHandler from 'react-clickout-handler'
import styled from 'styled-components'
const MyDiv = styled.div`
background-color: red;
`
const handleClickOut = () => {
console.log('You clicked me!')
}
const MyComponent = () => (
<ClickOutHandler onClickOut={handleClickOut}>
{({ ref }) => <MyDiv innerRef={ref} />}
</ClickOutHandler>
)
License
MIT