React Equal Height

Compares element heights and sets the highest (based on react-hooks)

Installation

npm i react-equal-height

WARNING

Version >= 1.0.0 has deep changes which making the configuration from the old version incompatible.

INFO

In version 1.2.0 was added third option to run recalculate updateOnChange, please read about it in options for EqualHeightElement'

Library import

Library	Size	Description
react-equal-height	7.6 kB	Library with styles that will be loaded on script startup to the <style> tag
react-equal-height/clean	10,8 kB	Library without styles. It can be useful for SSR or to remove overhead for script with loading styles Styles needs to be added: by itself (copy below styles to your project styles) OR imported from package clean/main.css

Styles from clean/main.css

.equal-height-JlocK {
    display:block;
    overflow:hidden;
    transition-property:height
}

Usage

import React, { useContext } from 'react';
import { EqualHeight, EqualHeightElement } from 'react-equal-height';

const App = () => {
    return (
        <EqualHeight>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
                <p>
                    tiam pellentesque aliquet tellus. Phasellus pharetra nulla ac diam. Quisque semper justo at risus. Donec venenatis, turpis vel hendrerit interdum, dui ligula ultricies purus, sed posuere libero dui id orci.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
        </EqualHeight>
    )
}

export default App;

• EqualHeight - all elements for which height will be calculating must be included in this element
• EqualHeightElement - element for which will be calculating height
• EqualHeightContext - lib context

Options (EqualHeight)

Prop	Default	Required	Description
timeout	200	false	time to recalculate heights
animationSpeed	0.25 (second)	false	time of animation for height change (in milliseconds) (0: disable)
updateOnChange	undefined	false	It's a part of useEffect deps so in updateOnChange can be passed anything they allow

Options (EqualHeightElement)

Prop	Default	Required	Description
name		true	all heights of elements with the same name are comparing
tag	div	false	type of tag that wraps the elements
placeholder	false	false	to keeping height in place where element not exist
disable	false	false	disables EqualHeightElement (children are still passing)

Methods (update by 'useEffect deps')

import React from 'react';
import { EqualHeight, EqualHeightElement } from 'react-equal-height';

const App = () => {
    const [loadImage, setLoadImage] = useState<boolean>(false);

    return (
        <EqualHeight updateOnChange={loadImage}>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <div className={styles.innerElement}>
                    <p>
                        <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/600x600" onLoad={(): void => setLoadImage(true)} alt="" />
                    </p>
                    <p>
                        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Semper viverra nam libero justo laoreet sit amet. Amet facilisis magna etiam tempor. Lobortis feugiat vivamus at augue eget.
                    </p>
                </div>
            </EqualHeightElement>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
                <p>
                    tiam pellentesque aliquet tellus. Phasellus pharetra nulla ac diam. Quisque semper justo at risus. Donec venenatis, turpis vel hendrerit interdum, dui ligula ultricies purus, sed posuere libero dui id orci.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
        </EqualHeight>
    )
}

export default App;

Methods (forceUpdate)

forceUpdate, setForceUpdate - force to recalculate heights for components

Example for recalculate after image loaded

by EqualHeightContext (Context)

import React, { useContext } from 'react';
import { EqualHeight, EqualHeightContext, EqualHeightElement } from 'react-equal-height';

const LoadImage = () => {
    const { setForceUpdate } = useContext(EqualHeightContext);

    const handleImage = () => (
        setForceUpdate((value: boolean) => !value)
    );

    return (
        <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/250x250" onLoad={handleImage} alt="" />
    );
};

const App = () => {
    return (
        <EqualHeight>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <LoadImage />
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
                <p>
                    tiam pellentesque aliquet tellus. Phasellus pharetra nulla ac diam. Quisque semper justo at risus. Donec venenatis, turpis vel hendrerit interdum, dui ligula ultricies purus, sed posuere libero dui id orci.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
        </EqualHeight>
    )
}

export default App;

by EqualHeightConsumer (Context.Provider)

import React from 'react';
import { EqualHeight, EqualHeightConsumer, EqualHeightElement } from 'react-equal-height';

const App = () => {
    return (
        <EqualHeight>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <p>
                    <EqualHeightConsumer>
                        {context => (
                            <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/500x500" onLoad={() => (context.setForceUpdate(value => !value))} alt="" />
                        )}
                    </EqualHeightConsumer>
                </p>
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
            <EqualHeightElement name="Name">
                <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi. Cras vel lorem.
                </p>
                <p>
                    tiam pellentesque aliquet tellus. Phasellus pharetra nulla ac diam. Quisque semper justo at risus. Donec venenatis, turpis vel hendrerit interdum, dui ligula ultricies purus, sed posuere libero dui id orci.
                </p>
            </EqualHeightElement>
        </EqualHeight>
    )
}

export default App;

Image examples

Base

Placeholder

Disable

Scripts (package.json)

Prop	Description
build	building production version
watch	building production version with watching changes
server	local server for manual test