use-detectoutside-click v1.0.4

use-detectoutside-click

using use-detectoutside-click

Install

npm install use-detectoutside-click

Usage

• use useref to create element reference
• call the useDetectOutsideClick hooks and pass the ref name as parameter
• set a variable name to extract the condition of the output as you do with useState

import { useRef } from 'react';

import { useDetectOutsideClick } from 'use-detectoutside-click';

const Block = () =>{
    const blockRef = useRef(null)
    const blockRef2 = useRef(null)
    const [blockOutsideClick] = useDetectOutsideClick(blockRef);
    const [blockOutsideClick2] = useDetectOutsideClick(blockRef2);
    return(
        <>
        <div className="blockContainer" ref={blockRef}>
            <h1>I am heading {blockOutsideClick.toString()}</h1>
            <p>Lorem ipsum some text over here will be display just read it carefully.</p>
            <button type="button">Click to know more</button>
        </div>

        <div className="blockContainer" ref={blockRef2}>
            <h1>I am heading2 {blockOutsideClick2.toString()}</h1>
            <p>Lorem ipsum some text over here will be display just read it carefully.</p>
            <button type="button">Click to know more</button>
        </div>

        </>
    )
}

Output

In the above example will return true if someone click outside the targeted element.