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List component for React

• Options
• Usage
• List content variations
• Variations
  • Sticky headers
  • Keyboard control
• Appearance
  • Styling
    • Themed component
    • CSS
    • Style
  • RTL (right-to-left) support
  • Dark or light tone

Options

List options

Usage

import React from "react"
import { List, ListTile } from "polythene-react"

<List header={{ title: "Friends" }}>
  <ListTile title="Jennifer Barker" />
  <ListTile title="Ali Connors" />
</List>

The list header will be also rendered using a list tile.

List content variations

See List Tile for layout variations, for example to add links, icons and images.

Variations

If there is a floating action button left-aligned with the avatar/icon in a list, align the subheader with the text content. source

In this situation we want to indent the list-header, and if we show borders, indent them too. We do so by adding the parameter indent to the header List Tiles, and set indentedBorder to true. For example:

import React from "react"
import { List, ListTile } from "polythene-react"

<List
  indentedBorder
  tiles={[
    <ListTile title="Jennifer Barker" indent />
  ]}  
/>

Sticky headers

To create alternating sticky headers, the list header gets CSS property position: sticky. However this property does not work in IE or Edge, so its use is a bit limited.

If you do choose to use it, add some styles to the container that holds the lists:

.scrollable-list {
  max-height: 15rem; /* some height */
  overflow: auto;
  -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
  /* prevent that the scrollbar gets obscured by the sticky headers (!) */
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;
}

Keyboard control

Sometimes it is useful to enable selecting list values with the keyboard, for instance with autocomplete search suggestions.

Visually, tiles can be visually marked using List's hoverable and List Tile's highlight and selected.

To give a list keyboard control, it must first receive focus, either with a click or from a parent element that has focus. List Tile elements can receive focus because they have attribute tabindex=0 by default.

To keep track of the selected element, wrap the list in a stateful component. The component will also handle key input.

In this example we are creating a list that accepts a click to create the first selection, then accepts arrow keys to move the selection up and down, and the Escape key to remove the selection.

A more elaborate example is given in Search - Results list.

import React from "react"
import { List, ListTile } from "polythene-react"

const listData = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"]

class KeyboardList extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
      selectedIndex: -1
    }
    this.handleKey = this.handleKey.bind(this)
  }
  
  handleKey(e) {
    const index = this.state.selectedIndex

    if (e.key === "ArrowDown") {
      e.preventDefault()
      const newIndex = Math.min(index + 1, listData.length - 1)
      this.setState({ selectedIndex: newIndex })
    } else if (e.key === "ArrowUp") {
      e.preventDefault()
      const newIndex = Math.max(0, index - 1)
      this.setState({ selectedIndex: newIndex })
    } else if (e.key === "Escape") {
      this.setState({ selectedIndex: -1 })
    }
  }
  
  render() {
    const selectedIndex = this.state.selectedIndex
    return (
      <div onKeyDown={this.handleKey}>
        <List
          border
          tiles={listData.map((title, index) =>
            <ListTile
              title={title}
              key={title}
              hoverable
              selected={index === selectedIndex}
              className="themed-list-tile"
              events={{
                onClick: () => this.setState({ selectedIndex: index })
              }}
            />
          )}
        />
      </div>
    )
  }
}

Appearance

Styling

Below are examples how to change the list appearance, either with a theme or with CSS.

You can find more information about theming in Theming.

Themed component

import { ListCSS } from "polythene-css"

ListCSS.addStyle(".themed-list", {
  color_light_background: "#F57C00",
  color_light_border:     "#F57C00",
  color_dark_background:  "#5D4037",
  color_dark_border:      "#5D4037",
  padding: 32
})

<List className="themed-list" />

CSS

Change CSS using the List CSS classes.

Class names can be imported with:

import classes from "polythene-css-classes/list"

Style

Some style attributes can be set using option style. For example:

<List
  style={{
    backgroundColor: "#EF6C00",
    color: "#fff"
  }}
/>

RTL (right-to-left) support

The direction of List content is reversed when the List is contained within an element that either:

• has attribute dir="rtl"
• has className pe-rtl

Dark or light tone

If the component - or a component's parent - has option tone set to "dark", the component will be rendered with light colors on dark.

• Use tone: "dark" to render light on dark
• Use tone: "light" to locally render normally when dark tone is set