react-preserve-ratio

A React component to preserve an element's ratio when scaling.

For example, how slideshow slides automatically scale to fit a window or screen without distorting. See the interactive examples for a demo!

Install

npm install --save react-preserve-ratio

Or for yarn:

yarn add react-preserve-ratio

Usage

import { PreserveRatio } from "react-preserve-ratio";

export const Example = () => {
  <div
    style={{
      border: "1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)",
      display: "block",
      overflow: "hidden",
      resize: "both",
      width: "640px",
    }}
  >
    <PreserveRatio>
      <div
        style={{
          backgroundColor: "#ffffdd",
          display: "flex",
          width: "320px",
          height: "240px",
          alignItems: "center",
          justifyContent: "center",
        }}
      >
        Hello, world!
      </div>
    </PreserveRatio>
  </div>;
};

Props

Constraints

• maxScale (optional number): The maximum scale for content relative to their real size.
• maxHeight (optional number): The maximum height of content, in pixels.
• maxWidth (optional number): The maximum width of content, in pixels.

minScale, minHeight and minWidth aren't currently supported in favor of having users control the min-height and min-width on the PreserveRatio's container instead. This is largely due to how potentially tricky overflow cases can be and less-clear use cases.

Alignment

• align (optional string, default: center): Horizontal alignment, center, left or right.
• valign (optional string, default: center): Vertical alignment, center, top or bottom.
• cover (optional boolean, default: false): Have content "cover" rather than be "contained".

Tweaks

Dynamic scaling comes with some visual and performance quirks, and these props aim to help work around them.

• hint (optional bool): Slightly increases the bleed between content and container. This ensures edge-to-edge coverage at the cost of having some overhang. Useful when there's high contrast between content and container that would be noticeable otherwise.
• safeMode (optional bool): Attempt to reduce non-user-impacting ResizeObserver errors at the cost of latency (See: StackOverflow)

Context

Currently there's only one context attribute:

• scale (number): The content scale, e.g. 1 when at 100% scale, 2 when at 200% scale, etc.

For convenience components can access it via the useScale hook:

import React from "react";
import { PreserveRatio, useScale } from "react-preserve-ratio";

function DisplayScale() {
  const scale = useScale();
  return <div>{scale}</div>;
}

function Example() {
  return (
    <PreserveRatio>
      <DisplayScale />
    </PreserveRatio>
  );
}

But it's also available via PreserveRatioContext if preferred:

import React from "react";
import { PreserveRatio, PreserveRatioContext } from "react-preserve-ratio";

function DisplayScale() {
  const { scale } = useContext(PreserveRatioContext);
  return <div>{scale}</div>;
}

// ...

Preserving Scale

Occasionally you may want a child component to preserve its scale independent of the PreserveRatio component it lives under -- for such cases there's a PreserveScale component that does exactly that.

Like PreserveRatio it accepts align and valign attributes. Unlike PreserveRatio it's hard to provide good defaults, so you'll probably want to set them explicitly.

Example:

<PreserveRatio>
  <div
    style={{
      alignItems: "center",
      display: "flex",
      height: "240px",
      justifyContent: "center",
      position: "relative",
      overflow: "hidden",
      width: "320px",
    }}
  >
    ... Scaling Content ...
    <div
      style={{
        position: "absolute",
        bottom: 0,
        right: 0,
      }}
    >
      <PreserveScale align="right" valign="bottom">
        Disclaimer: Bottom-Right.
      </PreserveScale>
    </div>
  </div>
</PreserveRatio>

Examples

See the Examples Page.

License

Apache-2.0 © Daniel O'Brien