react-float-anchor

This is a React component for anchoring a fixed position element, such as a dropdown menu, to the edge of an element on the page. The fixed position element will automatically be placed so that it fits on the screen if possible, and it will automatically reposition if needed when the user scrolls.

The above example can be tried here:

https://streakyc.github.io/react-float-anchor/example/

<FloatAnchor
  options={{ position: 'right', vAlign: 'top', hAlign: 'left' }}
  anchor={anchorRef => (
    <div ref={anchorRef} style={{ border: '1px dashed gray', display: 'inline-block' }}>
      Planets
    </div>
  )}
  float={
    <div style={{ border: '1px solid black', background: 'white' }}>
      Mercury
      ...
    </div>
  }
/>

You can find its code in the example directory. The example may be compiled by running:

yarn
yarn example-build
# or use this to auto-rebuild on changes:
yarn example-watch

FloatAnchor

This module exports the FloatAnchor React component, which takes the following props:

• anchor must be a function that takes a React ref value ("anchorRef"), and returns a React node. The anchorRef value must be passed as the ref prop to an HTML element. The returned node will be placed in the page where the FloatAnchor element was used, with no added wrapper elements around it. Alternatively, anchor may be a reference to a pre-existing HTMLElement. Use this if you want to attach to a non-React HTMLElement on the page.
• float must be null, a React node, or a function that returns a React node. If null, then FloatAnchor won't do anything other than render anchor as-is. If non-null, the float React node will be rendered in a container div which has position:fixed styling, is attached directly to the document body (or parentElement), and is positioned to line up with the anchorRef element. If float is a function, then the function will receive the return value from the most recent call to contain-by-screen, or null if it hasn't been called yet. The initial render will pass null, and then the component will be re-rendered after having been positioned by contain-by-screen.
• options is an optional object of options to control how the float element's container is aligned to the anchor element. The options are the same as those supported by contain-by-screen (version ^1.0).
• zIndex is an optional number controlling the z-index CSS property of the float element's container.
• floatContainerClassName is an optional string specifying a CSS class to apply to the float element's container div.
• parentElement is an optional HTMLElement to attach the float element container div to. This defaults to the page body element.

FloatAnchor has the following static methods:

• parentNodes(node) takes a DOM node, and returns an iterator that yields the node and then each parentNode, unless the current node is a float element's container div, then its corresponding anchorRef DOM node will be yielded next instead. This is useful when you are listening to events from the entire page and need to determine whether an event's target is logically contained by a React component that has children that use FloatAnchor.

The FloatAnchor component has a repositionAsync() method, which you should call if you change the size of the contents of the anchor or float elements.

There's also a reposition() method which you can call if you need the component to be repositioned synchronously. This method should not be used unless necessary. The async version of this method is able to coalesce redundant queued reposition calls together.

The container div of the float element has its rfaAnchor property set to be equal to the anchorRef DOM element.

Related

If you want interactive dropdown menus, check out the react-menu-list module that is built with this!

Types

Both TypeScript and Flow type definitions for this module are included! The type definitions won't require any configuration to use.