React.js Custom Modal Example & Tutorial

    Aug 10, 2018       by Suraj Roy
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In this article, I am going to create a demo for React.js custom modal.  For this, I will use here react-modal NPM package. 

 

There are so many other third-party libraries available today, Here I am going to use one of the very popular libraries. 

 

Let's Get Started

Step 1: Create React App

create a very basic app of react.js by using below command over terminal.

create-react-app reactjs-custom-modal

 

Step 2: Create Modal Component

Create a folder inside src/ folder named modal. Now create two files inside this first modal.js and second, modal.css. Now open modal.js file and add below code in it.

 

 
import React from 'react';
 
import './modal.css';
 
const modal = (props) => {
return (
<div>
<div className="modal-wrapper"
style={{
transform: props.show ? 'translateY(0vh)' : 'translateY(-100vh)',
opacity: props.show ? '1' : '0'
}}>
<div className="modal-header">
<h2>Modal Header</h2>
<span className="close-modal-btn" onClick={props.close}>×</span>
</div>
<div className="modal-body">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div className="modal-footer">
<p>This is Modal footer</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
)
}
 
export default modal;
 

 

 

Above, Modal component is a functional component which is receiving the contents as the children of the component. We are having 3 props for showing the modal, closing the modal and children for contents of the modal. Some CSS class has been added in HTML elements whose definition is written inside modal.css which I am going to explain just after it.

 

Now open the modal.css file and put below code inside it.

 

 
.modal-wrapper {
background: white;
border: 1px solid #d0cccc;
box-shadow: 0 5px 8px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.2), 0 7px 20px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.17);
margin: 100px auto 0;
transition: all .8s;
width: 60%;
border-radius: 10px;
}
 
.modal-header {
background: #e2e2e2;
height: 40px;
line-height: 40px;
padding: 5px 20px;
text-align: right;
}
 
.modal-header h2 {
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
 
.modal-body {
padding: 10px 15px;
text-align: center;
height:200px;
}
 
.modal-footer {
background: #e2e2e2;
height: 35px;
padding: 15px;
}
 
.close-modal-btn {
color: white;
cursor: pointer;
float: right;
font-size: 30px;
margin: 0;
}
 
.close-modal-btn:hover {
color: black;
}
 
.btn-cancel {
background-color: #b71c1c;
float: left;
}
 
.btn-continue {
background-color: #1b5e20;
float: right;
}
 
.back-shed {
background-color: rgba(48, 49, 48, 0.42);
height: 100%;
position: fixed;
transition: all 1.3s;
width: 100%;
}
 
.open-modal-btn {
margin: 15px;
padding: 10px;
}
 

 

Step 3: Update App.js

 

 
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Modal from './modal/modal';
import './App.css';
 
class App extends Component {
 
  constructor() {
    super();
 
    this.state = {
      isShowing: false
    }
  }
 
  openModalHandler = () => {
    this.setState({
      isShowing: true
    });
  }
 
  closeModalHandler = () => {
    this.setState({
      isShowing: false
    });
  }
 
  render () {
    return (
      <div>
 
        { this.state.isShowing ? <div onClick={this.closeModalHandler} className="back-shed"></div> : null }
 
        <button className="open-modal-btn" onClick={this.openModalHandler}>Open Modal</button>
 
        <Modal
          className="modal"
          show={this.state.isShowing}
          close={this.closeModalHandler}>
        </Modal>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
export default App;
 

 

In the above code, At the top, we have imported the modal component and used in the render method with the values of the props passed to it. After that we can see two custom methods:

1. openModalHandler(): It sets the state of isShowing to true to open the modal.

2. closeModalHandler(): It sets the state of isShowing to false to close the modal.

After that, An onClick listener is passed to the div to controll the opening and closing the modal. 

 

Step 4: Run the app

After all the previous steps, Run the app over terminal with npm start. A new tab will open with url http://locahost. A screen like below will open.

custom-modal-image

 

Conclusion

So in this demo, We learn to create custom modal in React.js with very simple steps. You can find other demos of React.js Sample Projects here

 

That’s all for now. Thank you for reading and I hope this demo will be very helpful to create React.js custom modal.

Let me know your thoughts over the email demo.jsonworld@gmail.com. I would love to hear them and If you like this article, share with your friends.

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