OutSideClick React

outsideclick-react is a lightweight React package that provides a hook and component for detecting clicks outside of a specified element. This can be useful for creating dropdown menus, modals, and other UI components that need to close when the user clicks outside of them.

Installation

You can install outsideclick-react using NPM or Yarn:

npm install outsideclick-react

or

yarn add outsideclick-react

How to use

Hook Usage

A hook that returns a ref object that can be attached to a target element to detect clicks outside of it.

import { useOutsideClick } from "outsideclick-react";

function MyComponent() {
    const handleOutsideClick = (e)=> {
        // Handle outside click
    }
    const ref = useOutsideClick(handleOutsideClick)
    /* const ref = useOutsideClick(handleOutsideClick,".hello-ignore") */
    return(
        <div ref={ref}>
            {/* Your component */}
        </div>
    )
}

In this example, we're using the useOutsideClick hook returns a ref object that can be used to detect clicks outside of an element. Pass in a handleOutsideClick function as a parameter to the hook, and when a click outside of the target element is detected, the function is called with the event object as the argument. This allows you to perform any necessary actions in response to the click.

Component Usage

Alternatively, you can use the OutsideClick component provided by the package to wrap your component:

import { OutsideClick } from 'outsideclick-react'

function MyComponent() {
    return (
        <OutsideClick
            onOutsideClick={() => {
                /* Handle outside click */
            }}
            ignoreElement=".ignore"
        >
            <div>{/* Your component */}</div>
        </OutsideClick>
    )
}

In the example above, we use the OutsideClick component to wrap our component and pass a callback function to the onOutsideClick prop that will be called when a click occurs outside of the wrapped element.

Note: The OutsideClick component returns a div element and supports all of the properties of a standard div element.

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