React-Styled-Floating-Label

Floating label component which works with any HTML input. Supports styling with styled-components. Check this live demo to see it in action.

import FloatingLabel from 'react-styled-floating-label';

const email = (
    <FloatingLabel text="Email">
        <input type="email" />
    </FloatingLabel>
);

Installation

npm i react-styled-floating-label styled-components --save

Usage

Typical Usage Example

import styled from 'styled-components';
import FloatingLabel from 'react-styled-floating-label';

const BlueFloatingLabel = styled(FloatingLabel)`
    color: #0070e0;
`;

const Input = styled.input`
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;
    box-sizing: border-box;

    border: none;
    border-bottom: 0.5px solid #bdbdbd;

    font-size: 1.25em;
    padding-left: 0.25em;
    padding-top: 0.25em;
    min-width: 20em;

    :focus {
        border-color: #5eaefe;
        outline: none;
    }
`;

const email = (
    <BlueFloatingLabel text="Email">
        <Input type="email" />
    </BlueFloatingLabel>
);

Styling With Props

import FloatingLabel from 'react-styled-floating-label';

const address = (
    <FloatingLabel
        text="Address"
        style={{
            color: '#0070e0',
        }}
        placeholderStyle={{
            fontWeight: 'bold',
        }}>
        <Input />
    </FloatingLabel>
);

Styled Placeholder

import styled from 'styled-components';
import FloatingLabel from 'react-styled-floating-label';

const FloatingLabelWithStyledPlaceholder = styled(FloatingLabel)`
    --placeholder-color: #328a09;
    --placeholder-font-weight: bold;
`;

const Input = styled.input`
    font-size: 1em;
`;

const address = (
    <FloatingLabelWithStyledPlaceholder text="Address">
        <Input />
    </FloatingLabelWithStyledPlaceholder>
);

Custom Positioning

import styled from 'styled-components';
import FloatingLabel from 'react-styled-floating-label';

const VerticallyPositionedFloatingLabel = styled(FloatingLabel)`
    transform: translateY(-10px);
`;

const HorizontallyPositionedFloatingLabel = styled(FloatingLabel)`
    margin-left: 20px;
`;

const firstName = (
    <VerticallyPositionedFloatingLabel text="First Name">
        <Input />
    </VerticallyPositionedFloatingLabel>
);

const lastName = (
    <HorizontallyPositionedFloatingLabel text="Last Name">
        <Input />
    </HorizontallyPositionedFloatingLabel>
);

You can check all examples in action in this live demo.

API

Props

Prop	Required	Default	Description
text	Yes		Label text
style	Optional	{}	Label style for projects which are not using styled-components
placeholderStyle	Optional	{}	Placeholder style for projects which are not using styled-components
container	Optional	div	Component container
label	Optional	label	Label component

styled-components

Label can be styled with styled-components:

import styled from 'styled-components';
import FloatingLabel from 'react-styled-floating-label';

const BlueFloatingLabel = styled(FloatingLabel)`
    color: #0070e0;
`;

To style placeholder use standard CSS properties with the "--placeholder-" prefix:

const BlueFloatingLabelWithBoldPlaceholder = styled(BlueFloatingLabel)`
    --placeholder-font-weight: bold;
`;

Demo

To run the demo, you need to clone the project and execute:

npm i && npm run demo

Or you can check a live demo here.

Feedback

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