react-outside-click-handler
A React component for handling outside clicks
Installation
$ npm install react-outside-click-handler
Usage
import OutsideClickHandler from 'react-outside-click-handler';
function MyComponent() {
return (
<OutsideClickHandler
onOutsideClick={() => {
alert('You clicked outside of this component!!!');
}}
>
Hello World
</OutsideClickHandler>
);
}
Props
children: PropTypes.node.isRequired
Since the OutsideClickHandler
specifically handles clicks outside a specific subtree, children
is expected to be defined. A consumer should also not render the OutsideClickHandler
in the case that children
are not defined.
Note that if you use a Portal
(native or react-portal
) of any sort in the children
, the OutsideClickHandler
will not behave as expected.
onOutsideClick: PropTypes.func.isRequired
The onOutsideClick
prop is also required as without it, the OutsideClickHandler
is basically a heavy-weight <div />
. It takes the relevant clickevent as an arg and gets triggered when the user clicks anywhere outside of the subtree generated by the DOM node.
disabled: PropTypes.bool
If the disabled
prop is true, outside clicks will not be registered. This can be utilized to temporarily disable interaction without unmounting/remounting the entire tree.
useCapture: PropTypes.bool
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Building_blocks/Events#Event_bubbling_and_capture for more information on event bubbling vs. capture.
If useCapture
is true, the event will be registered in the capturing phase and thus, propagated top-down instead of bottom-up as is the default.
display: PropTypes.oneOf(['block', 'flex', 'inline-block', 'inline', 'contents'])
By default, the OutsideClickHandler
renders a display: block
<div />
to wrap the subtree defined by children
. If desired, the display
can be set to inline-block
, inline
, flex
, or contents
instead. There is no way not to render a wrapping <div />
.