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Hover to expand nav, not click on trigger?


I have a navbar on the side of my page, I got the code from a website. Currently it has a button at the top that when the user clicks on it it expands out. However i'd like for it to expand when the user hovers over it. And un-expands when the mouse leaves it. But, it is coded using react-bootstrap so I'm not sure how I can edit this. Any ideas?

NavBar:

<div className="App container">
      <SideNav
        onSelect={(selected) => {
            // Add your code here
        }}
      >
        <SideNav.Toggle  />
        <SideNav.Nav  defaultSelected="home">
            <NavItem eventKey="home">
                <NavIcon>
                    <Link to="/"><img src={Dash}/></Link>
                </NavIcon>
                <NavText>
                    <Link to="/">Dashboard</Link>
                </NavText>
            </NavItem>
            <NavItem eventKey="sites">
                <NavIcon>
                  <Link to="/sites"><img src={Site} /></Link>
                </NavIcon>
                <NavText>
                    <Link to="/sites">Sites</Link>
                </NavText>
            </NavItem>
            <NavItem eventKey="tours">
              <NavIcon>
                <Link to="/tours"><img src={Tour}/></Link>
              </NavIcon>
              <NavText>
                  <Link to="/tours">Tours</Link>
              </NavText>
            </NavItem>
            <NavItem eventKey="media">
                <NavIcon>
                  <Link to="/media"><img src={Media}/> </Link>
                </NavIcon>
                <NavText>
                    <Link to="/media">Media</Link>
                </NavText>
            </NavItem>
            <NavItem eventKey="newSite">
                <NavIcon>
                    <Link to="/newSite/details"><img src={NewSite} /></Link>
                </NavIcon>
                <NavText>
                    <Link to="/newSite/details">Add new Site</Link>
                </NavText>
            </NavItem>
            <NavItem eventKey="profile">
                <NavIcon>
                    <Link to="/profile"><img src={Profile} /></Link>
                </NavIcon>
                <NavText>
                    <Link to="/profile">Profile</Link>
                </NavText>
            </NavItem>

        </SideNav.Nav>
      </SideNav>
      <Routes />
      </div>

Solution

  • Personally, I think that this is a very bad, inaccessible UX design, but if you want to go ahead and do it, you'll need to implement an onMouseEnter handler, like so:

      handleOnMouseEnter(path) {
        const { history } = this.props;
    
        console.log("handleOnMouseEnter: ", path);
    
        history.push(path);
      }
    

    In order to access the history object within props, you'll need to wrap your component in the withRouter HOC, something like so:

    const WrappedApp = withRouter(App);
    
    const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
    ReactDOM.render(
      <Router>
        <WrappedApp />
      </Router>,
      rootElement
    );
    

    Then your NavItem would look something like this:

        <NavItem
          eventKey="sites"
          onMouseEnter={() => this.handleOnMouseEnter("/sites")}
        >
          <NavText>
            <Link to="/sites">Sites</Link>
          </NavText>
        </NavItem>
    

    Please see this CodeSandbox for a working implementation.