react-element-resize-events

This components gives your div/element an onResize event like so:

 
import { Div } from 'react-element-resize-events';
 
const MyComponent = ({ text }) => {
  const onResize = ({ width, height, init }) => {
    console.log(`width: ${width}, height: ${height}${init ? `, and this resize event was due to element being mounted` : ``}.`);
  };
  <Div onResize={onResize}>{text}</Div>
};
 

How it works

The basic idea is that only the window object has an on resize event. So I capitalize on this fact. The Div component returns a div which is positioned (relative positioning by default) and inside this div the first element is an iframe with absolute positioning and with both width and height set to 100% and visibility: hidden. The children of the Div are then placed next to the iframe.

The idea is the iframe will expand with the parent div and since the iframe has a window element which I attach an onresize event to it, then "forward" the event to the user's input onResize function.

Generic tag

 
import { ElemWithResizeEvents } from 'react-element-resize-events';
 
const MyComponent = ({ text }) => {
  const onResize = ({ width, height, init }) => {
    console.log(`width: ${width}, height: ${height}${init ? `, and this resize event was due to element being mounted` : ``}.`);
  };
  <ElemWithResizeEvents tagName="h1" onResize={onResize}>{text}</Div>
};
 

defaults

By default the dimentions returned to the onResize function are the inner dimentions of the element (i.e. without margin/padding/border). To override this set getInnerDimentions prop to false as bellow:

 
import { ElemWithResizeEvents } from 'react-element-resize-events';
 
const MyComponent = ({ text }) => {
  const onResize = ({ width, height, init }) => {
    console.log(`width: ${width}, height: ${height}${init ? `, and this resize event was due to element being mounted` : ``}.`);
  };
  <ElemWithResizeEvents tagName="h1" onResize={onResize} getInnerDimentions={false}>{text}</Div>
};
 

You can also change the default getInnerDimentions by utilising the setDefaults function as bellow

 
import { setDefaults } from 'react-element-resize-events';
 
setDefaults({ getInnerDimentions: false });
 

You can also change the default tag name used by ElemWithResizeEvents

 
import { setDefaults } from 'react-element-resize-events';
 
setDefaults({ tagName: 'span' });