Make your React components sticky!

Perfect for headers, menus, or any other element where you want to maximize usability as your users scroll. Tons of options to make this component fit your project's needs, or simply rely on the ready-to-go defaults.

• Not bound to any version of React so it will scale along with the community! Note: this changed with version 3.0.0
• Only 12K minified, with 0 external dependencies (besides React, of course)!
• Allows multiple Sticky elements on the page at once!

npm install react-sticky

Tip: run npm install to build the compressed UMD version suitable for inclusion via CommonJS, AMD, and even good old fashioned <script> tags.

First, you will want to wrap the element you want to be sticky with tags. When the element is scrolled past the point where it would start to move off screen, the stickiness is activated.

app.jsx

var React = require('react'),
  Sticky = require('react-sticky');

var Header = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return (
      <Sticky>
        <header>
          <nav />
        </header>
      </Sticky>
    );
  },
});

When the "stickiness" becomes activated, the following css style rules are applied to the Sticky element:

  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;

In the event that you wish to override the style rules applied, simply pass in the style object as a prop:

app.jsx

<Sticky stickyStyle={customStyleObject}>
  <header />
</Sticky>

Note: For more information on the style object see http://facebook.github.io/react/tips/inline-styles.html

You can also specify a class name ('sticky' by default) to be applied when the element becomes sticky:

app.jsx

<Sticky stickyClass={customClassName}>
  <header />
</Sticky>

If you prefer to use external CSS rules instead of inline styles, you will need to pass an empty object to the stickyStyle property. Doing so will prevent the default inline styles from taking precedence over your own CSS rules. An example of how to do this is found below:

app.jsx

<Sticky stickyClass="supersticky" stickyStyle={{}}>
  <header />
</Sticky>

Sticky state will be triggered when the top of the element is topOffset pixels from the top of the window (0 by default). Positive numbers give the impression of a lazy sticky state, whereas negative numbers are more eager in their attachment.

app.jsx

<Sticky topOffset={80}>
  <SomeChild />
</Sticky>

The above would result in an element that becomes sticky once its top is greater than or equal to 80px away from the top of the screen.

You can specify a class name that would be applied to the resulting element:

app.jsx

<Sticky className={className}>
  <header />
</Sticky>

You can specify a style object that would be applied to the resulting element:

app.jsx

<Sticky style={{background: 'red'}}>
  <header />
</Sticky>

Note: In the event that stickyStyle rules conflict with style rules, stickyStyle rules take precedence ONLY while sticky state is active.

You can specify the type of element (React.DOM.div by default) that will be rendered:

app.jsx

<Sticky type={React.DOM.header}>
  <SomeChild />
</Sticky>

The above would result in all sticky state attributes (class and style) being applied directly to the element you specify, rather than being wrapped in a React.DOM.div.

Use the onStickyStateChange prop to fire a callback function when the sticky state changes:

app.jsx

<Sticky onStickyStateChange={this.handleStickyStateChange}>
  <header />
</Sticky

Aaron Goin

Alejandro Tardin

Ankit Sardesai (@amsardesai)

Josh Carr (@joshcarr)

By all means, if you see room for improvement, let us know!

MIT License