There is a modal in this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/26789089/883571 which is creating a React-based Modal by appending it to . However, I fo
I've written a library to help with this. I avoid the DOM insertion hacks used by Portal strategies out there and instead make use of context based registries to pass along components from a source to a target.
My implementation makes use of the standard React render cycles. The components that you teleport/inject/transport don't cause a double render cycle on the target - everything happens synchronously.
The API is also structured in a manner to discourage the use of magic strings in your code to define the source/target. Instead you are required to explicitly create and decorate components that will be used as the target (Injectable) and the source (Injector). As this sort of thing is generally considered quite magical I think explicit Component representation (requiring direct imports and usage) may help alleviate confusion on where a Component is being injected.
Although my library won't allow you to render as a direct child of the document.body you can achieve an acceptable modal effect by binding to a root level component in your component tree. I plan on adding an example of this use case soon.
See https://github.com/ctrlplusb/react-injectables for more info.
As other answers have stated this can be done using Portals. Starting from v16.0
Portals are included in React.
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<div id="portal"></div>
</body>
Normally, when you return an element from a component's render method, it's mounted into the DOM as a child of the nearest parent node, but with portals you can insert a child into a different location in the DOM.
const PortalComponent = ({ children, onClose }) => {
return createPortal(
<div className="modal" style={modalStyle} onClick={onClose}>
{children}
</div>,
// get outer DOM element
document.getElementById("portal")
);
};
class App extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
modalOpen: false
};
}
render() {
return (
<div style={styles}>
<Hello name="CodeSandbox" />
<h2>Start editing to see some magic happen {"\u2728"}</h2>
<button onClick={() => this.setState({ modalOpen: true })}>
Open modal
</button>
{this.state.modalOpen && (
<PortalComponent onClose={() => this.setState({ modalOpen: false })}>
<h1>This is modal content</h1>
</PortalComponent>
)}
</div>
);
}
}
render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));
Check working example here.
Hope it helps. This is my current implementation of a transition modal based on the anwser above:
React = require 'react/addons'
keyboard = require '../util/keyboard'
mixinLayered = require '../mixin/layered'
$ = React.DOM
T = React.PropTypes
cx = React.addons.classSet
module.exports = React.createFactory React.createClass
displayName: 'body-modal'
mixins: [mixinLayered]
propTypes:
# this components accepts children
name: T.string.isRequired
title: T.string
onCloseClick: T.func.isRequired
showCornerClose: T.bool
show: T.bool.isRequired
componentDidMount: ->
window.addEventListener 'keydown', @onWindowKeydown
componentWillUnmount: ->
window.removeEventListener 'keydown', @onWindowKeydown
onWindowKeydown: (event) ->
if event.keyCode is keyboard.esc
@onCloseClick()
onCloseClick: ->
@props.onCloseClick()
onBackdropClick: (event) ->
unless @props.showCornerClose
if event.target is event.currentTarget
@onCloseClick()
renderLayer: ->
className = "body-modal is-for-#{@props.name}"
$.div className: className, onClick: @onBackdropClick,
if @props.showCornerClose
$.a className: 'icon icon-remove', onClick: @onCloseClick
$.div className: 'box',
if @props.title?
$.div className: 'title',
$.span className: 'name', @props.title
$.span className: 'icon icon-remove', @onCloseClick
@props.children
render: ->
$.div()
At react conf 2015, Ryan Florence demonstrated using portals. Here's how you can create a simple Portal
component...
var Portal = React.createClass({
render: () => null,
portalElement: null,
componentDidMount() {
var p = this.props.portalId && document.getElementById(this.props.portalId);
if (!p) {
var p = document.createElement('div');
p.id = this.props.portalId;
document.body.appendChild(p);
}
this.portalElement = p;
this.componentDidUpdate();
},
componentWillUnmount() {
document.body.removeChild(this.portalElement);
},
componentDidUpdate() {
React.render(<div {...this.props}>{this.props.children}</div>, this.portalElement);
}
});
and then everything you can normally do in React you can do inside of the portal...
<Portal className="DialogGroup">
<ReactCSSTransitionGroup transitionName="Dialog-anim">
{ activeDialog === 1 &&
<div key="0" className="Dialog">
This is an animated dialog
</div> }
</ReactCSSTransitionGroup>
</Portal>
You can also have a look at Ryan's react-modal, although I haven't actually used it so I don't know how well it works with animation.
Here's an ES6 version of the method described in this article:
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
export default class BodyEnd extends React.PureComponent {
static propTypes = {
children: PropTypes.node,
};
componentDidMount() {
this._popup = document.createElement('div');
document.body.appendChild(this._popup);
this._render();
}
componentDidUpdate() {
this._render();
}
componentWillUnmount() {
ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode(this._popup);
document.body.removeChild(this._popup);
}
_render() {
ReactDOM.render(this.props.children, this._popup);
}
render() {
return null;
}
}
Just wrap any elements you want to be at the end of the DOM with it:
<BodyEnd><Tooltip pos={{x,y}}>{content}</Tooltip></BodyEnd>
Here's an updated version for React 16:
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class BodyEnd extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.el = document.createElement('div');
this.el.style.display = 'contents'; // The <div> is a necessary container for our content, but it should not affect our layout. Only works in some browsers, but generally doesn't matter since this is at the end anyway. Feel free to delete this line.
}
componentDidMount() {
document.body.appendChild(this.el);
}
componentWillUnmount() {
document.body.removeChild(this.el);
}
render() {
return ReactDOM.createPortal(
this.props.children,
this.el,
);
}
}
Working example
I wrote the module react-portal that should help you.