How to use radio buttons in ReactJS?
Any changes to the rendering should be change via the state
or props
(react doc).
So here I register the event of the input, and then change the state
, which will then trigger the render to show on the footer.
var SearchResult = React.createClass({
getInitialState: function () {
return {
site: '',
address: '',
};
},
onSiteChanged: function (e) {
this.setState({
site: e.currentTarget.value,
});
},
onAddressChanged: function (e) {
this.setState({
address: e.currentTarget.value,
});
},
render: function () {
var resultRows = this.props.data.map(function (result) {
return (
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<input
type="radio"
name="site_name"
value={result.SITE_NAME}
checked={this.state.site === result.SITE_NAME}
onChange={this.onSiteChanged}
/>
{result.SITE_NAME}
</td>
<td>
<input
type="radio"
name="address"
value={result.ADDRESS}
checked={this.state.address === result.ADDRESS}
onChange={this.onAddressChanged}
/>
{result.ADDRESS}
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
);
}, this);
return (
<table className="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Address</th>
</tr>
</thead>
{resultRows}
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>chosen site name {this.state.site} </td>
<td>chosen address {this.state.address} </td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
);
},
});
jsbin
Here is a simplest way of implementing radio buttons in react js.
class App extends React.Component {
setGender(event) {
console.log(event.target.value);
}
render() {
return (
<div onChange={this.setGender.bind(this)}>
<input type="radio" value="MALE" name="gender"/> Male
<input type="radio" value="FEMALE" name="gender"/> Female
</div>
)
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App/>, document.getElementById('app'));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<div id="app"></div>
Edited
You can use arrow function instead of binding. Replace the above code as
<div onChange={event => this.setGender(event)}>
For a default value use defaultChecked
, like this
<input type="radio" value="MALE" defaultChecked name="gender"/> Male
Based on what React Docs say:
Handling Multiple Inputs. When you need to handle multiple controlled input elements, you can add a name attribute to each element and let the handler function choose what to do based on the value of event.target.name.
For example:
class App extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {};
}
handleChange = e => {
const { name, value } = e.target;
this.setState({
[name]: value
});
};
render() {
return (
<div className="radio-buttons">
Windows
<input
id="windows"
value="windows"
name="platform"
type="radio"
onChange={this.handleChange}
/>
Mac
<input
id="mac"
value="mac"
name="platform"
type="radio"
onChange={this.handleChange}
/>
Linux
<input
id="linux"
value="linux"
name="platform"
type="radio"
onChange={this.handleChange}
/>
</div>
);
}
}
Link to example: https://codesandbox.io/s/6l6v9p0qkr
At first, none of the radio buttons is selected so this.state
is an empty object, but whenever the radio button is selected this.state
gets a new property with the name of the input and its value. It eases then to check whether user selected any radio-button like:
const isSelected = this.state.platform ? true : false;
EDIT:
With version 16.7-alpha of React there is a proposal for something called hooks
which will let you do this kind of stuff easier:
In the example below there are two groups of radio-buttons in a functional component. Still, they have controlled inputs:
function App() {
const [platformValue, plaftormInputProps] = useRadioButtons("platform");
const [genderValue, genderInputProps] = useRadioButtons("gender");
return (
<div>
<form>
<fieldset>
Windows
<input
value="windows"
checked={platformValue === "windows"}
{...plaftormInputProps}
/>
Mac
<input
value="mac"
checked={platformValue === "mac"}
{...plaftormInputProps}
/>
Linux
<input
value="linux"
checked={platformValue === "linux"}
{...plaftormInputProps}
/>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
Male
<input
value="male"
checked={genderValue === "male"}
{...genderInputProps}
/>
Female
<input
value="female"
checked={genderValue === "female"}
{...genderInputProps}
/>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
);
}
function useRadioButtons(name) {
const [value, setState] = useState(null);
const handleChange = e => {
setState(e.target.value);
};
const inputProps = {
name,
type: "radio",
onChange: handleChange
};
return [value, inputProps];
}
Working example: https://codesandbox.io/s/6l6v9p0qkr
Make the radio component as dumb component and pass props to from parent.
import React from "react";
const Radiocomponent = ({ value, setGender }) => (
<div onChange={setGender.bind(this)}>
<input type="radio" value="MALE" name="gender" defaultChecked={value ==="MALE"} /> Male
<input type="radio" value="FEMALE" name="gender" defaultChecked={value ==="FEMALE"}/> Female
</div>
);
export default Radiocomponent;
It's easy to test as it is a dumb component (a pure function).