React Show More Text

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'
                anchorClass=''
                onClick={this.executeOnClick}
                expanded={false}
            >
                {longText}
            </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>
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}

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