A React component for handling outside clicks.
NOTE: This library is a fork of the excellent airbnb/react-outside-click-handler, and the source of this fork is nearly identical, except for one difference: this library does not use a
Object.values
polyfill, so its bundle size is reduced by nearly 75% (14.3kb to 3.7kb after gzip).
import OutsideClickHandler from 'react-outside-click-handler-lite';
function MyComponent() {
return (
<OutsideClickHandler
onOutsideClick={() => {
alert('You clicked outside of this component!!!');
}}
>
Hello World
</OutsideClickHandler>
);
}
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 />
.