Dynamic Dropdown menu

Create dropdown menus and listen to static (HTML) and dynamic dropdown menus

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Components
  • Dropdown components
• HTML Dropdown

Install

npm i dynamic-drop-down-menu

Usage

1. Import components that you should use.

import {
  Dropdown,
  ClickoutDropdown,
  setupHTMLDropdowns
} from 'dynamic-drop-down-menu'

2. (Optional) Import css file: css/dropdown.css (If you wanna test, you can import the css file in node_modules)

3. Try!

// Creating dropdown
const dropdownRemove = Dropdown('Remove file', document.body, ['strings.txt', 'documents.txt', 'players.txt', 'users.json'])

// Adding event to dropdown items
dropdownRemove.addEventToItems('click', dropdownRemove.getItems(), (event) => {
  const confirmation = confirm(`You wanna remove ${event.target.textContent} file?`)
  if (confirmation) {
    event.target.remove()
    alert('File deleted!')
  }
})

// Auto close visible dropdown when clicks out.
ClickoutDropdown.listen()

// Loads all HTML dropdowns
setupHTMLDropdowns()

Components

Name	Description	Example
Dropdown	Creates new dropdown element	Dropdown("Button name", parentNode, itemsArray)
ClickoutDropdown	Module Pattern that control what happens when click out of visible dropdown	ClickoutDropdown.listen()
setupHTMLDropdowns	Loads all HTML dropdowns	setupHTMLDropdowns()
getDropdowns	Return a list of all dropdowns	getDropdowns()
getVisibleDropdowns	Return a list of all visible dropdowns	getVisibleDropdowns()

Dropdown components

Name	Description	Example
getDropdownDOM	Returns dropdown element	dropdown.getDropdownDOM()
getContentDOM	Return dropdown content	dropdown.getContentDOM()
getButtonDOM	Return dropdown button	dropdown.getButtonDOM()
getItems	Return dropdown items	dropdown.getItems()
addItem	Add dropdown item by text	dropdown.addItem("Dropdown item 3")
removeItemByText	Remove item by text	dropdown.removeItemByText("Dropdown item 3")
removeItemByIndex	Remove item by index	dropdown.removeItemByIndex(2)
addEventToItems	Add event listener to selected dropdown items	dropdown.addEventToItems("eventName", dropdown.getItems(), (event) => console.log(You clicked ${event.target.textContent}))

HTML Dropdown

You can create dropdown on HTML. See how:

1. Create dropdown on HTML

<div class="drop-down">
  <button class="drop-down-button">Dropdown button</button>
  <ul class="drop-down-content">
    <li class="drop-down-item">Dropdown item 1></li>
    <li class="drop-down-item">Dropdown item 2</li>
    <li class="drop-down-item">Dropdown item 3</li>
  </ul>
</div>

2. Enable dropdown listener using setupHTMLDropdowns

import {setupHTMLDropdowns} from 'dynamic-drop-down-menu'
setupHTMLDropdowns()

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