How do you Hover in ReactJS? - onMouseLeave not registered during fast hover over

Question

How can you achieve either a hover event or active event in ReactJS when you do inline styling?

I\'ve found that the onMouseEnter, onMouseLeave approach is buggy, so

Answer 1

The previous answers are pretty confusing. You don't need a react-state to solve this, nor any special external lib. It can be achieved with pure css/sass:

The style:

.hover {
  position: relative;

  &:hover &__no-hover {
    opacity: 0;
  }

  &:hover &__hover {
    opacity: 1;
  }

  &__hover {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    opacity: 0;
  }

  &__no-hover {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

The React-Component

A simple Hover Pure-Rendering-Function:

const Hover = ({ onHover, children }) => (
    <div className="hover">
        <div className="hover__no-hover">{children}</div>
        <div className="hover__hover">{onHover}</div>
    </div>
)

Usage

Then use it like this:

    <Hover onHover={<div> Show this on hover </div>}>
        <div> Show on no hover </div>
    </Hover>

Answer 2

Note: This answer was for a previous version of this question where the question asker was trying to use JavaScript to apply css styles… which can simply be done with CSS.

A simple css-only solution.

For applying basic styles, CSS is simpler and more performant that JS solutions 99% of the time. (Though more modern CSS-in-JS solutions — eg. React Components, etc — are arguably more maintainable.)

Run this code snippet to see it in action…

.hover-button .hover-button--on,
.hover-button:hover .hover-button--off {
  display: none;
}

.hover-button:hover .hover-button--on {
  display: inline;
}

<button class='hover-button'>
  <span class='hover-button--off'>Default</span>
  <span class='hover-button--on'>Hover!</span>
</button>

Answer 3

A package called styled-components can solve this problem in an ELEGANT way.

Reference

1. Glen Maddern - Styling React Apps with Styled Components

Example

const styled = styled.default
const Square = styled.div`
  height: 120px;
  width: 200px;
  margin: 100px;
  background-color: green;
  cursor: pointer;
  position: relative;
  &:hover {
    background-color: red;
  };
`
class Application extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Square>
      </Square>
    )
  }
}

/*
 * Render the above component into the div#app
 */
ReactDOM.render(<Application />, document.getElementById('app'));

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.6.1/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.6.1/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/styled-components/dist/styled-components.min.js"></script>
<div id='app'></div>

Answer 4

I'd use onMouseOver & onMouseOut. Cause in React

The onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave events propagate from the element being left to the one being entered instead of ordinary bubbling and do not have a capture phase.

Here it is in the React documentation for mouse events.

Answer 5

I know It's been a while since this question was asked but I just run into the same issue of inconsistency with onMouseLeave() What I did is to use onMouseOut() for the drop-list and on mouse leave for the whole menu, it is reliable and works every time I've tested it. I saw the events here in the docs: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/events.html#mouse-events here is an example using https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_dropdowns.asp:

handleHoverOff(event){
  //do what ever, for example I use it to collapse the dropdown
  let collapsing = true;
  this.setState({dropDownCollapsed : collapsing });
}

render{
  return(
    <div class="dropdown" onMouseLeave={this.handleHoverOff.bind(this)}>
      <button class="btn btn-primary dropdown-toggle" type="button" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown Example
      <span class="caret"></span></button>
      <ul class="dropdown-menu" onMouseOut={this.handleHoverOff.bind(this)}>
        <li><a href="#">bla bla 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">bla bla 2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">bla bla 3</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  )
}

Answer 6

I personally use Style It for inline-style in React or keep my style separately in a CSS or SASS file...

But if you are really interested doing it inline, look at the library, I share some of the usages below:

In the component:

import React from 'react';
import Style from 'style-it';

class Intro extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Style>
        {`
          .intro {
            font-size: 40px;
          }
        `}

        <p className="intro">CSS-in-JS made simple -- just Style It.</p>
      </Style>
    );
  }
}

export default Intro;

Output:

    <p class="intro _scoped-1">
      <style type="text/css">
        ._scoped-1.intro {
          font-size: 40px;
        }
      </style>

      CSS-in-JS made simple -- just Style It.
    </p>

Also you can use JavaScript variables with hover in your CSS as below :

import React from 'react';
import Style from 'style-it';

class Intro extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const fontSize = 13;

    return Style.it(`
      .intro {
        font-size: ${ fontSize }px;  // ES2015 & ES6 Template Literal string interpolation
      }
      .package {
        color: blue;
      }
      .package:hover {
        color: aqua;
      }
    `,
      <p className="intro">CSS-in-JS made simple -- just Style It.</p>
    );
  }
}

export default Intro;

And the result as below:

<p class="intro _scoped-1">
  <style type="text/css">
    ._scoped-1.intro {
      font-size: 13px;
    }
    ._scoped-1 .package {
      color: blue;
    }
    ._scoped-1 .package:hover {
      color: aqua;
    }
  </style>

  CSS-in-JS made simple -- just Style It.
</p>