/react-selectable

A component for react that allows mouse selection of child items

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Selectable items for React

Allows individual or group selection of items using the mouse.

Demo

Try it out

Upgrading from 0.1 to 0.2

There have been significant changes in the 0.2 release. Please read about them here.

Getting started

npm install react-selectable

import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import { SelectableGroup, createSelectable } from 'react-selectable';
import SomeComponent from './some-component';

const SelectableComponent = createSelectable(SomeComponent);

class App extends React.Component {

  constructor (props) {
  	super(props);
  	this.state = {
  		selectedKeys: []
  	};
  }

  render () {
    return (
      <SelectableGroup onSelection={this.handleSelection}>
        {this.props.items.map((item, i) => {
          	let selected = this.state.selectedKeys.indexOf(item.id) > -1;
          	return (
          		<SelectableComponent key={i} selected={selected} selectableKey={item.id}>
          			{item.title}
          		</SelectableComponent>
          	);
        })}
      </SelectableGroup>
    );
  },

  handleSelection (selectedKeys) {
  	this.setState({ selectedKeys });
  }

}

Configuration

The <SelectableGroup /> component accepts a few optional props:

  • onSelection (Function) Callback fired after user completes selection
  • tolerance (Number) The amount of buffer to add around your <SelectableGroup /> container, in pixels.
  • component (String) The component to render. Defaults to div.
  • fixedPosition (Boolean) Whether the <SelectableGroup /> container is a fixed/absolute position element or the grandchild of one. Note: if you get an error that Value must be omitted for boolean attributes when you try <SelectableGroup fixedPosition={true} />, simply use Javascript's boolean object function: <SelectableGroup fixedPosition={Boolean(true)} />.
  • selectOnMouseMove (Boolean) Enable to fire the onSelection callback while the mouse is moving. Throttled to 50ms for performance in IE/Edge
  • preventDefault (Boolean) Allows to enable/disable preventing the default action of the onmousedown event (with e.preventDefault). True by default. Disable if your app needs to capture this event for other functionalities.