I am trying to use a Emoji picker inside my React application and there are 2 buttons on the page to toggle the picker, I want to show the picker at the position where the Toggle button is clicked. For example there are 2 buttons, At the top and at the bottom, I want to show my picker at the position of click, making sure that the picker doesn't go out of view as well i.e. above/below the height and vice versa.
DOM
<>
<div className='position-absolute h-100 w-100' id='picker-backdrop' onClick={this.toggleReactions} style={{top:0, left:0, zIndex:99}}>
</div>
<Picker set='apple' color={Colors.colorPrimary} autoFocus={true} style={this.state.pickerPosition} onSelect={(emojiObject) => this.sendReaction(emojiObject)} />
</>
Here's my logic:
// Coordinates to get the position of click
let coordinates = {
x: e.clientX,
y: e.clientY
}
// The picker-backdrop
container = {
height: container.offsetHeight,
width: container.offsetWidth
}
// The picker element to be positioned
picker = {
height: picker.offsetHeight,
width: picker.offsetWidth
}
let bottom = coordinates.y - picker.height
let left = coordinates.x - picker.width
if(bottom > 0) {
bottom = container.height - bottom
if(container.height - bottom < picker.height) {
bottom = coordinates.y - picker.height
}
}
if(left > 0) {
left = container.width - left
if(container.width - left < picker.width) {
left = coordinates.x - picker.width
}
}
Generating style
if(bottom >= 0 && left >= 0) {
style['bottom'] = bottom
style['right'] = left
}
this.setState({
pickerPosition: style
})
and also picker is position: 'absolute'.
Right now I am doing it only for the cases when the calculated values are positive but I can't get it to position correctly. Seeking forward to expert advises on what exactly am I doing wrong.
You can do it only using css. wrap both the button and the picker with an absolute positioned div, then wrap only the picker with relatively positioned div as I tried to show in the following code snippet:
.wrapper{
position:relative;
}
.toggler{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
...
}
.picker-container{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:<button-width>px;
....
}
<div class="wrapper">
<button class="toggler">Choose..</buton>
<div class="picker-container"><Picker/></div>
</div>