React-Tappable

Tappable component for React. Abstracts touch events to implement onTap and onPress.

The events mimic their native equivalents as closely as possible:

• the baseClass (default: Tappable) has -active or -inactive added to it to enable pressed-state styling
• the pressed state is visually cancelled if the touch moves too far away from the element, but resumes if the touch comes back again
• when you start scrolling a parent element, the touch event is cancelled
• if the onPress property is set, it will cancel the touch event after the press happens

When touch events are not supported, it will fall back to mouse events.

Demo & Examples

Live demo: jedwatson.github.io/react-tappable

To build the examples locally, run:

npm install
gulp dev

Then open localhost:8000 in a browser.

Installation

The easiest way to use React-tappable is to install it from NPM and include it in your own React build process (using Browserify, etc).

You can also use the standalone build by including dist/react-tappable.js in your page. If you use this, make sure you have already included React, and it is available as a global variable.

npm install react-tappable --save

Usage

React-tappable generates a React component (defaults to <span>) and binds touch events to it.

To disable default event handling (e.g. scrolling) set the preventDefault prop.

var Tappable = require('react-tappable');

<Tappable onTap={this.handleTapEvent}>Tap me</Tappable>

Properties

• component component to render, defaults to 'span'
• className optional class name for the component
• classBase base to use for the active/inactive classes
• moveThreshold px to allow movement before cancelling a tap; defaults to 100
• pressDelay ms delay before a press event is detected, defaults to 1000
• pressMoveThreshold px to allow movement before ignoring long presses; defaults to 5
• preventDefault (boolean) automatically call preventDefault on all events
• stopPropagation (boolean) automatically call stopPropagation on all events

Special Events

These are the special events implemented by Tappable.

• onTap fired when touchStart or mouseDown is followed by touchEnd or mouseUp within the moveThreshold
• onPress fired when a touch is held for the specified ms

Native Events

The following native event handlers can also be specified.

• onTouchStart
• onTouchMove
• onTouchEnd
• onMouseDown
• onMouseUp
• onMouseMove
• onMouseOut

Returning false from onTouchStart or onMouseDown handlers will prevent Tappable from handling the event.