React Show More Text 1.5.0

The text surrounded by the component will be truncated. Anything surrounded by the component could be evaluated as text. The component react-show-more-text/ShowMoreText is fork of react-show-more/ShowMore, applied improvements, works with React 16.x.x, added onClick event.

Demo

https://www.devzonetech.com/demo/react-show-more-text/build/

Install

$ npm install react-show-more-text

Usage

import ShowMoreText from "react-show-more-text";

// ...

class Foo extends Component {
    executeOnClick(isExpanded) {
        console.log(isExpanded);
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <ShowMoreText
                /* Default options */
                lines={3}
                more="Show more"
                less="Show less"
                className="content-css"
                anchorClass="my-anchor-css-class"
                onClick={this.executeOnClick}
                expanded={false}
                width={280}
                truncatedEndingComponent={"... "}
            >
                Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur{" "}
                <a
                    href="https://www.yahoo.com/"
                    target="_blank"
                    rel="noopener noreferrer"
                >
                    yahoo.com
                </a>{" "}
                adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
                <a
                    href="https://www.google.bg/"
                    title="Google"
                    rel="nofollow"
                    target="_blank"
                    rel="noopener noreferrer"
                >
                    www.google.bg
                </a> ut labore et dolore magna amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
                sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
                Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
                nisi ut aliquip ex Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing
                elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
                aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco
                laboris nisi ut aliquip ex Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
                adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
                magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
            </ShowMoreText>
        );
    }
}

API

Prop	Type	Default	Description	Example
lines	integer, boolean {false}	3	Specifies how many lines of text should be preserved until it gets truncated. false and any integer < 1 will result in the text not getting clipped at all.	(false, -1, 0), 1, ...
children	string, React node		The text to be truncated. Anything that can be evaluated as text.	'Some text', <p>Some paragraph <a/>with other text-based inline elements<a></p>, <span>Some</span><span>siblings</span>
more	string, React node	'Show more'	The text to display in the anchor element to show more.	'Show more', <span>Show more</span>
less	string, React node	'Show less'	The text to display in the anchor element to show less.	'Show less', <span>Show less</span>
className	string	''	Class name(s) to add on component content wrapper div.	'wrapper-class', 'wrapper-class-1 wrapper-class-2'
anchorClass	string	''	Class name(s) to add to the anchor elements.	'my-anchor-class', 'class-1 class-2'
onClick	Function		Function executed on click on 'Show more' or 'Show less'	onClick={this.executeOnClick}
expanded	boolean	'false'	Control the text to be shown as expanded	expanded={true}
width	number	0	If not 0, the calculation of the content will be based on this number.
keepNewLines	boolean	'false'	Controls the new lines in text to be kept or not. When set to true, only strings can be passed in as children, and not html nodes.	keepNewLines={true}
truncatedEndingComponent	string	'...'	Control the text to be shown at the end of short text	truncatedEndingComponent={'... '}

Developing

Install development dependencies

$ npm install

Run tests

$ npm test

Run code linter

$ npm run lint

Compile to ES5 from /src to /lib

$ npm run compile