@fawazahmed/react-native-read-more

react-native-read-more

React native library to show text in a condensed way and expand when needed. Can be used with native or expo on all platforms.

Why another library ?

This package is different from regular see more/less components available out there. It's smart enough to calculate where to position See more within the same paragraph instead of occupying another line. It is a drop-in replacement for Text component and you can control when to apply the see more functionality by configuring the numberOfLines prop. Moreover, you can also pass your own custom implementation of Text component like ParsedText etc.

Seeing issues ?

Create an issue with github or drop an email to [e-mail].

Installation

npm i @fawazahmed/react-native-read-more --save

or with yarn

yarn add @fawazahmed/react-native-read-more

Props

Prop	Type	Required	Note
style	object or array	no	text style
seeMoreText	string	no	defaults to See more
seeMoreStyle	object or array	no	text style for See more text
seeLessText	string	no	defaults to See less
seeLessStyle	object or array	no	text style for See less text
wrapperStyle	object or array	no	style for wrapper View
numberOfLines	number	no	defaults to 3
animate	bool	no	defaults to true => applies a subtle animation to see more and see less text, not the complete text itself
backgroundColor	string	no	defaults to white => supply backgroundColor if your background color is something other than white
customTextComponent	React component	no	defaults to Text

Any additional props are passed down to underlying Text component.

Usage

import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, View } from 'react-native';
import ReadMore from '@fawazahmed/react-native-read-more';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <View style={styles.root}>
      <ReadMore>
        {`Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.`}
      </ReadMore>
    </View>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  root: {
    flex: 1,
    padding: 16,
    marginTop: 48,
  },
});

export default App;