React Basic Contenteditable

A React component that allows you to create an editable area in your application. It's perfect for situations where you need to provide a user-friendly, in-place editing functionality.

Installation

Install via npm

npm install --save react-basic-contenteditable

or yarn

yarn add react-basic-contenteditable

Usage

Live demo at https://chrisuser.github.io/react-basic-contenteditable/

Example

import ContentEditable from "react-basic-contenteditable"

const App = () => {
  const [content, setContent] = useState("")

  return (
    <div>
      <div>{content}</div>
      <ContentEditable
        placeholder="Type here"
        containerClassName="container-class"
        contentEditableClassName="contenteditable-class"
        placeholderClassName="placeholder-class"
        onChange={(content) => setContent(content)}
      />
    </div>
  )
}

export default App

Props

All props are optional, that's how you can fully customize it!

Name	Optional	Type	Description
containerClassName	✔️	string	Custom classes for the wrapper div
contentEditableClassName	✔️	string	Custom classes for the input element
placeholderClassName	✔️	string	Custom classes for the placeholder text
placeholder	✔️	string	Input placeholder text
disabled	✔️	boolean	Flag that disables the input element
updatedContent	✔️	string	Text injected from parent element into the input as the current value
onContentExternalUpdate	✔️	(content) => void	Method that emits the injected content by the updatedContent prop
onChange	✔️	(content) => void	Method that emits the current content as a string
onKeyUp	✔️	(e) => void	Method that emits the keyUp keyboard event
onKeyDown	✔️	(e) => void	Method that emits the keyDown keyboard event
onFocus	✔️	(e) => void	Method that emits the focus event
onBlur	✔️	(e) => void	Method that emits the blur event

Contribution

If you have a suggestion that would make this component better feel free to fork the project and open a pull request or create an issue for any idea or bug you find.
Remeber to follow the Contributing Guidelines.

Licence

React Basic Contenteditable is MIT licensed.