I have the following in one of my React / Gatsby files:

import React from "react"

const click = () => {
  console.log("J");
}

const NavButton = () => 
  <button className="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" style={{backgroundColor: 'blue', position: "absolute", margin: "30px"}}type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapsingNavbar" onClick={click}>
    <div id="nav-icon1">
      <span></span>
      <span></span>
      <span></span>
    </div>
  </button>

const Dropdown = () => 
<div style={{visibility: "hidden", backgroundColor: "blue", position: "absolute", height: "100%", width: "100%"}}>
</div>

export default (props) =>
  <div className="left col-xs-12 col-md-6">
    <Dropdown />
    <NavButton />
    {props.children}
  </div>

Now I would like to fire click() whenever somebody presses the NavButton, and then I would like to make Dropdown visible. How would I do this? Right now I have it hardcoded that Dropdown has style={{visibility: "hidden", ....

I'm also wondering whether I am doing this correctly, having everything loosely in these different functions, if somebody could tell me that would be great!

I have the following in one of my React / Gatsby files:

import React from "react"

const click = () => {
  console.log("J");
}

const NavButton = () => 
  <button className="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" style={{backgroundColor: 'blue', position: "absolute", margin: "30px"}}type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapsingNavbar" onClick={click}>
    <div id="nav-icon1">
      <span></span>
      <span></span>
      <span></span>
    </div>
  </button>

const Dropdown = () => 
<div style={{visibility: "hidden", backgroundColor: "blue", position: "absolute", height: "100%", width: "100%"}}>
</div>

export default (props) =>
  <div className="left col-xs-12 col-md-6">
    <Dropdown />
    <NavButton />
    {props.children}
  </div>

Now I would like to fire click() whenever somebody presses the NavButton, and then I would like to make Dropdown visible. How would I do this? Right now I have it hardcoded that Dropdown has style={{visibility: "hidden", ....

I'm also wondering whether I am doing this correctly, having everything loosely in these different functions, if somebody could tell me that would be great!

• javascript
• html
• css
• reactjs
• gatsby

1 Answer 1

Your controlling class needs to be stateful: it needs to maintain the boolean state as to whether the dropdown is open or closed. When rendering the dropdown, if the boolean is open, then you'll show the dropdown, else you won't.

Here is your code rewritten to do this. Note the child ponents take props as arguments. This is how the parent municates with them. Some of those props are callbacks, this is how the child municates back to the parent.

import React from "react"

const NavButton = ({onClick}) => 
  <button className="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" style={{backgroundColor: 'blue', position: "absolute", margin: "30px"}}type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapsingNavbar" onClick={onClick}>
    <div id="nav-icon1">
      <span></span>
      <span></span>
      <span></span>
    </div>
  </button>

const Dropdown = ({show}) => 
<div style={{visibility: show ? "visible" : "hidden", backgroundColor: "blue", position: "absolute", height: "100%", width: "100%"}}>
</div>

export default class Parent extends React.Component {
  state = {
    dropdownVisible: false,
  };

  // toggles the dropdown each time it is called
  toggleDropdown = () => this.setState(state => ({
    dropdownVisible: !state.dropdownVisible,
  }));

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="left col-xs-12 col-md-6">
        <Dropdown show={this.state.dropdownVisible} />
        <NavButton onClick={this.toggleDropdown} />
        {this.props.children}
      </div>
    );
  }
}