Editable Text Component for React Apps
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react-editext

Editable Text Component for React Applications

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This project is generated from react-typescript-library template.

Install

npm install --save react-editext

Or with yarn:

yarn add react-editext

Usage

EdiText is highly customizable. You can see more examples here. Here is a basic usage:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

import EdiText from 'react-editext';

function Example(props) {
  const [value, setValue] = useState('What is real? How do you define real?');

  const handleSave = (val) => {
    console.log('Edited Value -> ', val);
    setValue(val);
  };
  return (
    <div className="container">
      <EdiText type="text" value={value} onSave={handleSave} />
    </div>
  );
}

There is also a codesandbox template that you can fork and play with it:

You can customize almost everything based on your needs. Please navigate to Props section. I mean, just scroll down.

Props

Prop	Type	Required	Default	Note
value	string	Yes		Value of the content and input [in edit mode]
onSave	function	Yes		Function will be called when save button clicked. `value` and `inputProps` are passed to cb.
type	string	No	text	Input type. Possible options are: `text`, `password`, `number`, `email`, `textarea`, `date`, `datetime-local`, `time`, `month`, `url`, `week`, `tel`
hint	node	No	`''`	A simple hint message appears at the bottom of input element. Any valid element is allowed.
inputProps	object	No		Props to be passed to input element. Any kind of valid DOM attributes are welcome.
viewProps	object	No		Props to be passed to div element that shows the text. You can specify your own `styles` or `className`
containerProps	object	No		Props to be passed to div element that is container for all elements. You can use this if you want to style or select the whole container.
editButtonProps	object	No		Props to be passed to edit button.
validation	function	No		Pass your own validation function. takes one param -> `value`. It must return `true` or `false`
validationMessage	node	No	Invalid Value	If validation fails this message will appear
onValidationFail	function	No		Pass your own function to track when validation failed. See Examples page for the usage.
onCancel	function	No		Function will be called when editing is cancelled. `value` and `inputProps` are passed as params.
saveButtonContent	node	No	`''`	Content for save button. Any valid element is allowed. Default is: ✓
cancelButtonContent	node	No	`''`	Content for cancel button. Any valid element is allowed. Default is: ✕
editButtonContent	node	No	`''`	Content for edit button. Any valid element is allowed. Default is: ✎
saveButtonClassName	string	No		Custom class name for save button.
cancelButtonClassName	string	No		Custom class name for cancel button.
editButtonClassName	string	No		Custom class name for edit button.
viewContainerClassName	string	No		Custom class name for the container in `view` mode.See here
editContainerClassName	string	No		Custom class name for the container in edit mode. Will be set to `viewContainerClassName` if you set it and omit this. See here
mainContainerClassName	string	No		`deprecated`. Custom class name for the top-level main container. See here
hideIcons	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you don't want to see default icons on action buttons. See Examples page for more details.
buttonsAlign	string	No	`after`	Set this to `before` if you want to locate action buttons before the input instead of after it. See here.
editOnViewClick	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want clicking on the view to activate the editor.
editing	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want the view state to be edit mode.
onEditingStart	function	No		Function that will be called when the editing mode is active. See here
showButtonsOnHover	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want to display action buttons only when the text hovered by the user. See here
submitOnEnter	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want to submit the form when `Enter` is pressed. Be careful if you have multiple instances of `<EdiText/>` on the same page.
cancelOnEscape	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want to cancel the form when `Escape` is pressed. See here
cancelOnUnfocus	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want to cancel the form when clicked outside of the input. See here
submitOnUnfocus	bool	No	`false`	Set it to `true` if you want to submit the form when clicked outside of the input. See here
startEditingOnFocus	bool	No	`false`	Activates the edit mode when the view container is in focus. See here
startEditingOnEnter	bool	No	`false`	Activates the edit mode when the `Enter` key is pressed. See here
tabIndex	number	No		An helper shortcut in case you want to pass the same tabIndex to both `viewProps` and `inputProps`.
renderValue	function	No		Custom render method for the content in the view mode.Use this prop to customize the displayed value in view mode. See here
canEdit	function or boolean	No	`true`	A function or boolean prop that returns a boolean. If it returns `true` the input will be editable. If it returns `false` the input will be read-only.

Styling with `styled-components`

You can style your <EdiText/> components with styled-components or similar libraries. You can either target internal HTML elements by their type ( or order) , or you can select them by attribute values.

Each customizable HTML element has a editext=xxx attribute. Use below as a reference table:

Attr. Value	Description
`main-container`	the main container
`view-container`	the container in `view` mode
`edit-container`	the container in `edit` mode
`button-container`	the container for the `save` and `cancel` buttons
`validation-container`	the container for validation message area
`edit-button`	use this to style the edit button
`save-button`	use this to style the save button
`cancel-button`	use this to style the cancel button
`input`	There is only one input. You can select it directly or just use this attr value.
`hint`	To style the hint container.

Usage:

button[editext='cancel-button'] {
  &:hover {
    background: crimson;
    color: #fff;
  }
}

div[editext='view-container'] {
  background: #6293c3;
  padding: 15px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  color: #fff;
}

div[editext='validation-container'] {
  color: #d3d3d3;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

input,
textarea {
  /** or input[editext="input"] {} */
  background: #1d2225;
  color: #f4c361;
  font-weight: bold;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

See the example code.

Browser Support

Chrome	Firefox	Safari	iOS Safari	Opera	Edge
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Development

With Nix

nix-shell --pure
develop

This will start a tmux session for both library and example app.

Without Nix

Install dependencies and start the rollup watch process.

yarn install
yarn start

Navigate to example/ folder and repeat the above steps.

cd example
yarn install
yarn start

Now open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_jdoklovic 💻	_{Obed Castillo} 💻	_{Bruno Aderaldo} 🐛 💻	_{Sascha Kiefer} 💬 🤔	_{Ehab Alsharif} 💻 📖	_{Harsha N Hegde} 🐛 💻	_{Justin Kuntz} 🤔 🐛
_{Braulio Soncco} 🤔	_zig 🐛	_{Isaiah Taylor} 🤔	_anz000 🤔	_{Amir M} 🤔	_{Harshil Parmar} 📖	_{Brandon Paris} 🐛
_{Christopher Schaub} 🤔	_{Krzysztof Danek} 🐛	_{Pavel Kalashnikov} 🐛	_{Ján Bočínec} 🐛	_shubh057 🤔	_{Sachin Jain} 🐛	_{SeYeD Sina} 🤔