react-detachable-window

ReactDetachableWindow wraps a portion of the DOM or a group of react components and make it detachable from current window frame into a new window it takes care to copy the stylesheets and title from the original frame into the new window or you can define your own

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Install:

npm i react-detachable-window

Use:

import ReactDetachableWindow from 'react-detachable-window'

<ReactDetachableWindow title='I am detached!' windowOptions={{width: 800, height: 600}}>
    <!-- DOM defined here can be detached to a new popup window and re-attached-->
</ReactDetachableWindow>

var reattachButton = (<button type='button'>Close!</button>)
var detachButton = (<button type='button'>Detach!</button>)

<ReactDetachableWindow
  windowOptions={{ width: 800, height: 600 }}
  reattachButton={reattachButton}i
  detachButton={detachButton}>
  ...
</ReactDetachableWindow>

Component properties

• windowOptions - Optional: A hash of options passed to the window.open(URL, name, specs, replace) 'specs' parameter
• title - Optional: A string title for the new window
• reattachButton - Optional: A jsx element which, when clicked, closes the popup window
• detachButton - Optional: A jsx element which, when clicked, opens the popup window

TODO List

• copy a complete set of attributes from original window into the new popup
• allow property to define the containing DOM for the detachable portion in the new popup