React-Tags
React-tags is a simple tagging component ready to drop in your React projects. The component is inspired by GMail's To field in the compose window.
Features
- Autocomplete based on a suggestion list
- Keyboard friendly and mouse support
- Reorder tags using drag and drop
Why
Because I was looking for an excuse to build a standalone component and publish it in the wild? To be honest, I needed a tagging component that provided the above features for my React-Surveyman project. Since I was unable to find one which met my requirements (and the fact that I generally enjoy re-inventing the wheel) this is what I came up with.
Demo
Check it out here
Installation
The preferred way of using the component is via NPM
npm install --save react-tag-input
make sure you have installed the peer dependencies as well with below versions
react: ^16.3.1,
react-dnd: ^5.0.0
react-dnd-html5-backend: ^3.0.2
react-dom": ^16.3.1
It is, however, also available to be used separately (dist/ReactTags.min.js
). If you prefer this method remember to include ReactDND as a dependancy. Refer to the example to see how this works.
Usage
Here's a sample implementation that initializes the component with a list of initial tags
and suggestions
list. Apart from this, there are multiple events, handlers for which need to be set. For more details, go through the API.
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { WithContext as ReactTags } from 'react-tag-input';
const KeyCodes = {
comma: 188,
enter: 13,
};
const delimiters = [KeyCodes.comma, KeyCodes.enter];
class App extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
tags: [
{ id: "Thailand", text: "Thailand" },
{ id: "India", text: "India" }
],
suggestions: [
{ id: 'USA', text: 'USA' },
{ id: 'Germany', text: 'Germany' },
{ id: 'Austria', text: 'Austria' },
{ id: 'Costa Rica', text: 'Costa Rica' },
{ id: 'Sri Lanka', text: 'Sri Lanka' },
{ id: 'Thailand', text: 'Thailand' }
]
};
this.handleDelete = this.handleDelete.bind(this);
this.handleAddition = this.handleAddition.bind(this);
this.handleDrag = this.handleDrag.bind(this);
}
handleDelete(i) {
const { tags } = this.state;
this.setState({
tags: tags.filter((tag, index) => index !== i),
});
}
handleAddition(tag) {
this.setState(state => ({ tags: [...state.tags, tag] }));
}
handleDrag(tag, currPos, newPos) {
const tags = [...this.state.tags];
const newTags = tags.slice();
newTags.splice(currPos, 1);
newTags.splice(newPos, 0, tag);
this.setState({ tags: newTags });
}
render() {
const { tags, suggestions } = this.state;
return (
<div>
<ReactTags tags={tags}
suggestions={suggestions}
handleDelete={this.handleDelete}
handleAddition={this.handleAddition}
handleDrag={this.handleDrag}
delimiters={delimiters} />
</div>
)
}
};
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'));
A note about Contexts
One of the dependencies of this component is the react-dnd library. Since the 1.0 version, the original author has changed the API and requires the application using any draggable components to have a top-level backend context. So if you're using this component in an existing Application that uses React-DND you will already have a backend defined, in which case, you should require
the component without the context.
const ReactTags = require('react-tag-input').WithOutContext;
Otherwise, you can simply import along with the backend itself (as shown above). If you have ideas to make this API better, I'd love to hear.
Options
Option | Type | Default | Description |
---|
tags | Array | [] | An array of tags that are displayed as pre-selected |
suggestions | Array | [] | An array of suggestions that are used as basis for showing suggestions |
delimiters | Array | [ENTER, TAB] | Specifies which characters should terminate tags input |
placeholder | String | Add new tag | The placeholder shown for the input |
labelField | String | text | Provide an alternative label property for the tags |
handleAddition | Function | undefined | Function called when the user wants to add a tag (required) |
handleDelete | Function | undefined | Function called when the user wants to delete a tag (required) |
handleDrag | Function | undefined | Function called when the user drags a tag |
handleFilterSuggestions | Function | undefined | Function called when filtering suggestions |
handleTagClick | Function | undefined | Function called when the user wants to know which tag was clicked |
autofocus | Boolean | true | Boolean value to control whether the text-input should be autofocused on mount |
allowDeleteFromEmptyInput | Boolean | true | Boolean value to control whether tags should be deleted when the 'Delete' key is pressed in an empty Input Box |
handleInputChange | Function | undefined | Event handler for input onChange |
handleInputFocus | Function | undefined | Event handler for input onFocus |
handleInputBlur | Function | undefined | Event handler for input onBlur |
minQueryLength | Number | 2 | How many characters are needed for suggestions to appear |
removeComponent | Boolean | false | Custom delete/remove tag element |
autocomplete | Boolean /Number | false | Ensure the first matching suggestion is automatically converted to a tag when a delimiter key is pressed |
readOnly | Boolean | false | Read-only mode without the input box and removeComponent and drag-n-drop features disabled |
name | String | undefined | The name attribute added to the input |
id | String | undefined | The id attribute added to the input |
maxLength | Number | Infinity | The maxLength attribute added to the input |
inline | Boolean | true | Render input field and selected tags in-line |
allowUnique | Boolean | true | Boolean value to control whether tags should be unqiue |
allowDragDrop | Boolean | true | Boolean value to control whether tags should have drag-n-drop features enabled |
renderSuggestion | Function | undefined | Render prop for rendering your own suggestions |
tags (optional, defaults to []
)
An array of tags that are displayed as pre-selected. Each tag should have an id
property, property for the label, which is specified by the labelField
and class for label, which is specified by className
.
const tags = [ { id: "1", text: "Apples" } ]
const tags = [ { id: "1", name: "Apples" } ]
const tags = [ { id: "1", text: "Apples", className: 'red'} ]
suggestions (optional, defaults to []
)
An array of suggestions that are used as basis for showing suggestions. These objects should follow the same structure as the tags
. So if the labelField
is name
, the following would work:
const suggestions = [
{ id: "1", name: "mango" },
{ id: "2", name: "pineapple"},
{ id: "3", name: "orange" },
{ id: "4", name: "pear" }
];
<a name="delimiters"></a>
##### delimiters (optional, defaults to `[ENTER, TAB]`)
Specifies which characters should terminate tags input. An array of character codes.
```js
const Keys = {
TAB: 9,
SPACE: 32,
COMMA: 188,
};
<ReactTags
delimiters={[Keys.TAB, Keys.SPACE, Keys.COMMA]}
/>
placeholder (optional, defaults to Add new tag
)
The placeholder shown for the input.
let placeholder = "Add new country"
labelField (optional, defaults to text
)
Provide an alternative label
property for the tags.
<ReactTags
tags={tags}
suggestions={}
labelField={'name'}
handleDrag={}
/>
This is useful if your data uses the text
property for something else.
handleAddition (required)
Function called when the user wants to add a tag (either a click, a tab press or carriage return)
function(tag) {
}
handleDelete (required)
Function called when the user wants to delete a tag
function(i) {
}
handleDrag (optional)
If you want tags to be draggable, you need to provide this function.
Function called when the user drags a tag.
function(tag, currPos, newPos) {
}
handleFilterSuggestions (optional)
To assert control over the suggestions filter, you may contribute a function that is executed whenever a filtered set
of suggestions is expected. By default, the text input value will be matched against each suggestion, and those that
start with the entered text will be included in the filters suggestions list. If you do contribute a custom filter
function, you must return an array of suggestions. Please do not mutate the passed suggestions array.
For example, if you prefer to override the default filter behavior and instead match any suggestions that contain
the entered text anywhere in the suggestion, your handleFilterSuggestions
property may look like this:
function(textInputValue, possibleSuggestionsArray) {
var lowerCaseQuery = textInputValue.toLowerCase()
return possibleSuggestionsArray.filter(function(suggestion) {
return suggestion.toLowerCase().includes(lowerCaseQuery)
})
}
Note: The above custom filter uses String.prototype.includes
, which was added to JavaScript as part of the ECMAScript 7
specification. If you need to support a browser that does not yet include support for this method, you will need to
either refactor the above filter based on the capabilities of your supported browsers, or import a polyfill for
String.prototype.includes
.
handleTagClick (optional)
Function called when the user wants to know which tag was clicked
function(i) {
}
autofocus (optional, defaults to true
)
Optional boolean param to control whether the text-input should be autofocused on mount.
<ReactTags
autofocus={false}
...>
allowDeleteFromEmptyInput (optional, defaults to true
)
Optional boolean param to control whether tags should be deleted when the 'Delete' key is pressed in an empty Input Box.
<ReactTags
allowDeleteFromEmptyInput={false}
...>
handleInputChange (optional)
Optional event handler for input onChange
<ReactTags
handleInputChange={this.handleInputChange}
...>
handleInputFocus (optional)
Optional event handler for input onFocus
<ReactTags
handleInputFocus={this.handleInputFocus}
...>
handleInputBlur (optional)
Optional event handler for input onBlur
<ReactTags
handleInputBlur={this.handleInputBlur}
...>
minQueryLength (optional, defaults to 2
)
How many characters are needed for suggestions to appear.
removeComponent (optional)
If you'd like to supply your own tag delete/remove element, create a React component and pass it as a property to ReactTags using the removeComponent
option. By default, a simple anchor link with an "x" text node as its only child is rendered, but if you'd like to, say, replace this with a <button>
element that uses an image instead of text, your markup may look something like this:
import {WithContext as ReactTags} from 'react-tag-input'
class Foo extends React.Component {
render() {
return <ReactTags removeComponent={RemoveComponent}/>
}
}
class RemoveComponent extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<button {...this.props}>
<img src="my-icon.png" />
</button>
)
}
}
The "ReactTags__remove" className and onClick
handler properties can be automatically included on the <button>
by using the JSX spread attribute, as illustrated above.
autocomplete (optional, defaults to false
)
Useful for enhancing data entry workflows for your users by ensuring the first matching suggestion is automatically converted to a tag when a delimiter key is pressed (such as the enter key). This option has three possible values:
true
- when delimeter key (such as enter) is pressed, first matching suggestion is used.1
- when delimeter key (such as enter) is pressed, matching suggestion is used only if there is a single matching suggestionfalse
(default) - tags are not autocompleted on enter/delimiter
This option has no effect if there are no suggestions
.
readOnly (optional, defaults to false
)
Renders the component in read-only mode without the input box and removeComponent
. This also disables the drag-n-drop feature.
name (optional)
The name attribute added to the input.
<ReactTags
name = "inputName"
...>
id (optional)
The id attribute added to the input.
<ReactTags
id = "inputId"
...>
maxLength (optional)
The maxLength attribute added to the input. Specifies the maximum number of characters allowed in the input field.
<ReactTags
maxLength = "42"
...>
inline (optional, defaults to true
)
The inline attributes decides whether the input fields and selected tags will be rendered in-line.
<ReactTags
inline
...>
<ReactTags
inline={false}
...>
allowUnique (optional, defaults to true
)
This prop controls whether tags should be unique.
allowDragDrop (optional, defaults to true
)
This prop controls whether tags should have the drag-n-drop feature enabled.
renderSuggestion (optional)
This props allows to provide your own suggestion renderer and override the default one. It receives the suggestion and the query string as parameters. For example:
<ReactTags
renderSuggestion = {({ text }, query) => <div style={{ textDecoration: 'underline', textDecorationStyle: 'wavy' }}>{text} ({ query })</div>}
...>
Styling
<ReactTags>
does not come up with any styles. However, it is very easy to customize the look of the component the way you want it. By default, the component provides the following classes with which you can style -
ReactTags__tags
ReactTags__tagInput
ReactTags__tagInputField
ReactTags__selected
ReactTags__selected ReactTags__tag
ReactTags__selected ReactTags__remove
ReactTags__suggestions
ReactTags__activeSuggestion
An example can be found in /example/reactTags.css
.
If you need to set your own class names on the component, you may pass in
a classNames
prop.
<ReactTags
classNames={{
tags: 'tagsClass',
tagInput: 'tagInputClass',
tagInputField: 'tagInputFieldClass',
selected: 'selectedClass',
tag: 'tagClass',
remove: 'removeClass',
suggestions: 'suggestionsClass',
activeSuggestion: 'activeSuggestionClass'
}}
...>
Dev
The component is written in ES6 and uses Webpack as its build tool.
Set up instructions
git clone git@github.com:prakhar1989/react-tags.git
cd react-tags
npm install
npm run precommit
npm run start
open http://localhost:8090/example
Contributing
Got ideas on how to make this better? Open an issue!
Thanks
The autocomplete dropdown is inspired by Lea Verou's awesomeplete library. The Drag and drop functionality is provided by Dan Abramov's insanely useful ReactDND library.
Also thanks to the awesome contributors who've made the library far better!