How to Detect a Click Outside a React Component.pptx

How to Detect a Click Outside a React Component?
Today we are going to see how you can detect a click outside of a React
component. We will understand this topic by creating a custom React
hook for it. For example, consider a case where you want a custom
React hook for dropdown or dialog components that need to close
when the user clicks outside of them. So, in this article, we’ll figure out
the way to find out this outside click. Checkout the best way to use
React hooks that would be helpful to meet the quality.
We can use the contains API to see if a target node is contained within
another node. That is, it will return true if the clicked component is
within the component we are interested in and false otherwise.

A React component is a JSX-based UI building unit self-contained,
reusable, and separated.
Web developers also use custom dropdowns to allow users to choose
from a list of alternatives. As we have seen earlier the components like
custom dropdown should be close while user clicks outside when it is
open. To build an enterprise-level application or implement these
solutions, you can easily consult or hire react developers
from bosctechlabs.com.

Detecting an outside click of a functional
component
Let’s make an HTML tooltip by using the InfoBox React functional
component.
When the user hits a button, the tooltip appears, and when the user
clicks outside of the tooltip component, it disappears. We will try to
detect click outside the React component for the solution of this
question.
To get started, we’ll construct a new React app. You can also use the
code below to detect outside clicks in your existing React app.

Example:
import React, { useRef, useEffect } from "react";
import PropTypes from "prop-types";
function outSide(open) {
useEffect(() => {
function handleClickOutside(event) {
if (open.current && !open.current.contains(event.target)) {
alert("Show alert Box!");
}
}
document.addEventListener("mousedown", handleClickOutside);
return () => {
document.removeEventListener("mousedown", handleClickOutside);
};
}, [open]);
}

Output
<button>Click Outside</button>
Click Outside:

UseRef: The useRef hook allows the functional component to create a
direct reference to the DOM element.
Syntax:
const refContainer = useRef(initialValue);
UseRef: The useRef hook allows the functional component to
create a direct reference to the DOM element.
Syntax:
const refContainer = useRef(initialValue);

The useRef returns a mutable ref object. This object has a property
called .current. The refContainer.current property keeps track of the
value. The current property of the returned object is used to access
these values.
UseEffect: React useEffect is a function that is executed for 3 different
React component lifecycles which we will see below.
1. componentDidMount
2. componentDidUpdate
3. componentWillUnmount

1. componentDidMount:
We started fixing fetch calls before the class Component and even
inside the render() method when we made made our first React
component.
This had strange negative effects on the application, causing groan.
2. componentDidUpdate:
This React lifecycle is called immediately after a prop or state change
has occurred.
It signifies we clicked inside our worried element if the element that
triggered the mouse down event is either our concerned element or
any element that is inside the concerned element.

Example:
Index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> </title>
</head>
<body>
<section>
<div id=’click-text’>
Click Me and See Console
</div> </section>
</body>
</html>

DetectElement.js:
const DetectElement = document.querySelector(".click-text");
document.addEventListener("mousedown", (e) => {
if (DetectElement.contains(e.target)) {
console.log("click inside");
} else {
console.log("click outside");
}
});

Conclusion
So far, we have seen how you can detect a click outside the React
components using the custom React hook. Also, we have learned to
utilize UseEffet hook and UseRef hook while detecting the outside click
by the user.
Thank you for reading the article. Hope you enjoyed the Reading. Keep
visiting Bosc Tech Labs for more insightful content.
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