Click away listener

Detect if a click event happened outside of an element. It listens for clicks that occur somewhere in the document.

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⚛️ Support portals

Example

For instance, if you need to hide a menu dropdown when people click anywhere else on your page:

<ClickAwayListener onClickAway={handleClickAway}>
  <Box sx={{ position: 'relative' }}>
    <button type="button" onClick={handleClick}>
      Open menu dropdown
    </button>
    {open ? (
      <Box sx={styles}>
        Click me, I will stay visible until you click outside.
      </Box>
    ) : null}
  </Box>
</ClickAwayListener>

Notice that the component only accepts one child element. You can find a more advanced demo on the Menu documentation section.

Portal

The following demo uses Portal to render the dropdown into a new "subtree" outside of current DOM hierarchy.

<ClickAwayListener onClickAway={handleClickAway}>
  <div>
    <button type="button" onClick={handleClick}>
      Open menu dropdown
    </button>
    {open ? (
      <Portal>
        <Box sx={styles}>
          Click me, I will stay visible until you click outside.
        </Box>
      </Portal>
    ) : null}
  </div>
</ClickAwayListener>

Leading edge

By default, the component responds to the trailing events (click + touch end). However, you can configure it to respond to the leading events (mouse down + touch start).

<ClickAwayListener
  mouseEvent="onMouseDown"
  touchEvent="onTouchStart"
  onClickAway={handleClickAway}
>
  <Box sx={{ position: 'relative' }}>
    <button type="button" onClick={handleClick}>
      Open menu dropdown
    </button>
    {open ? (
      <Box sx={styles}>
        Click me, I will stay visible until you click outside.
      </Box>
    ) : null}
  </Box>
</ClickAwayListener>

⚠️ In this mode, only interactions on the scrollbar of the document is ignored.

API

<ClickAwayListener />