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react-dropdown-now
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The demo page is here. react-dropdown-now is a fork of react-dropdown.
requires React >= 16.8
import Dropdown, { Selection } from 'react-dropdown-now';
import 'react-dropdown-now/style.css';
// normal usage
<Dropdown
placeholder="Select an option"
options={['one', 'two', 'three']}
value="one"
onChange={(value) => console.log('change!', value)}
onClose={(closedBySelection) => console.log('closedBySelection?:', closedBySelection)}
onOpen={() => console.log('open!')}
/>;
// use the Selection component with other components like popovers etc.
<Selection
options={['one', 'two', 'three']}
value="one"
onChange={(value) => console.log('change!', value)}
/>;
Flat Array options
const options = [
'one', 'two', 'three'
];
Object Array options
const options = [
{ id: 'one', value: 'one', label: 'One', view: <span>One</span> },
{ value: 'two', label: 'Two', className: 'myOptionClassName' },
{
name: 'group1',
items: [
{ value: 'three', label: 'Three', className: 'myOptionClassName' },
{ value: 'four', label: 'Four' }
]
},
{
name: 'group2',
items: [
{ value: 'five', label: 'Five' },
{ value: 'six', label: 'Six' }
]
}
];
When using Object options you can add to each option:
className string to further customize the dropdown, e.g. adding icons to optionsview node to render an isolated view in the dropdown options list which is different from what could be seen in the dropdown control (selected value)id string can be used to give an id to each option. Must be unique; even when mixing grouped options with single options. Useful for when option.value is not a string or number. Can be used with a custom matcher to determine the selected option.Disabled
<Dropdown disabled option={options} value={defaultOption} />
matcher
The default matcher will use the value prop to match against values within the options array.
custom matcher example:
const value = 'custom-id';
const options = [{ id: 'custom-id', value: 1, label: 'awesome' }];
<Dropdown
option={options}
value={value}
matcher={(item, val) => {
// item => { id, option: {id, value, label} }
return item.id === val;
}}
/>;
| Classname | Targets |
|---|---|
Dropdown-root prop: className | main wrapper div |
Dropdown-control prop: controlClassName | the dropdown control |
Dropdown-placeholder prop: placeholderClassName | styles the placeholder / selected item in dropdown control |
Dropdown-menu prop: menuClassName | container for the dropdown options |
Dropdown-arrow prop: arrowClassName | dropdown arrow indicator |
arrowClosed, arrowOpen
The arrowClosed & arrowOpen props enable passing in custom elements for the open/closed state arrows.
<Dropdown
arrowClosed={<span className="arrow-closed" />}
arrowOpen={<span className="arrow-open" />} />;
More examples in the docs folder.
onChange always returns an object with aleast {value, label}option.type is no longer needed to determine if the option is a group. Once the option has an items array then it is assumed to be a group.MIT
FAQs
React dropdown component NOW
We found that react-dropdown-now demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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