react-text-2-list

Simple React component for entering / pasting large quantities of text to list

Usability

Peer dependencies: React and react-dom.

import { Text2List } from 'react-text-2-list';

and include css file (you may include this in different way)

require('../node_modules/react-text-2-list/css/style.css');

Demo

We prepared code sandbox demo. See demo here

props/options

Required props

There is only one mandatory prop: onAdd callback, that is gonna get fired when one or more items get added to the list

import React, {Component} from 'react';
import { Text2List } from 'react-text-2-list';
// You should not forget to include css

export default class FakeComponent extends Component {

	constructor(props) {
		super(props);

		this.onAddCallback = this.onAddCallback.bind(this);
	}

	onAddCallback(list) {
		console.log(list);
		// do whatever you like with your list,
		// which is an array of strings
	}

	render() {
		return (
			<div>
				<Text2List
					onAdd={this.onAddCallback}
				/>
			</div>
		);
	}
}

classNames

Property	Default	Description
classNames	---	Object containing classnames listed below
classNames.wrapper	Text2List	Component root element
classNames.heading	Text2List__heading	h4 tag, the heading of the component
classNames.input	Text2List__input	Textarea tag
classNames.buttonsWrapper	Text2List__buttonsWrapper	Div tag wrapping enter and remove all buttons
classNames.enterButton	Button Button--action	Enter button
classNames.removeButton	Button Button--underline Text2List__removeAll	Remove all button
classNames.errorMessage	Text2List__errorMessage	Error message on duplicate entries, if you enable stopOnDuplicate prop
classNames.errorItems	Text2List__errorItems	span tag wrapping list of duplicate entries in error message
inputListClassNames	---	Object containing classnames for InputList component, listed below
inputListClassNames.wrapper	Text2List__inputList	Component root element
inputListClassNames.inputItem	Text2List__inputListItem	Li tag, one entry in the list
inputListClassNames.inputItemText	Text2List__inputListItemText	Entry text in li tag
inputListClassNames.removeButton	Button Button--underline Text2List__removeOne	Delete button inside the entry

All props

Property	Type	Default	Description
onAdd	function	none	Callback to invoke on adding item(s) in the list, gets passed array of strings that are entries it the list
placeholder	string	undefined	Placeholder text for textarea
heading	string	undefined	Heading(label) text above text area. If not provided no heading will be rendered
separators	string	space and comma	String that we will use to make RegExp to separate entered text in textarea, ie. series of characters separated with pipe
stopOnDuplicate	boolean	false	If true, it will stop submit if there are duplicate items entered or item already exists in the list. Otherwise, it will just show error message and filter out duplicates on enter
maxVisibleItems	number	4	It will determine the max-height of the list, with 45px being height of one entry and add a scroll if needed
maxItems	number	none	Max number of allowed entries
stopOnMaxItemsError	boolean	false	If true, it will stop submit if there are more items entered than specified in maxItems prop. Otherwise, it will just show error message and truncate entries to match max items allowed in list
validateEntry	function	none	Function that takes single entry as sole argument. Should return true or false
stopOnValidationError	boolean	false	If true, it will stop submit if if one or more items didn't pass validateEntry check. Otherwise, it will just show error message and filter out invalid entries before enter
validationErrorMessage	string	"Entries need to be valid."	Error message to show if one or more items didn't pass the validateEntry check. Will get added a list of invalid entries to the end of it
enterButtonText	string	"Enter"	Text that you want to show on "Enter" button
asyncValidation	boolean	false	Whether you are going to use async validation. It should work like this: you transition isInPendingState state prop to false when some API call is done and supply validateEntry that checks if entry is one of items that your API returned as invalid. You can alos feed the message from API into validationErrorMessage
isInPendingState	boolean	false	Use it in combination with asyncValidation prop. Transition it to true while your API call for validation is in progress and to false when it's done. You can also use it for straight submitting to API
pendingEnterButtonText	string	"Validating..."	Text to display on enter button while isInPendingState is true
invalidEntriesLabel	string	"Invalid entries:"	Text to display before the invalid entries
duplicatesErrorText	string	"You entered duplicate entries:"	Text do display before the duplicate entries

Customizing and contributing

You can contact us in case you need some feature or want to contribute. It's possible that you may need additional className props, we haven't fully tested custom styling. Feel free to contact us should that be a case. You can also freely fork and play around with the project.