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