React Js conditionally applying class attributes

Question

I want to conditionally show and hide this button group depending on what is passed in from the parent component which looks like this:

<TopicNav showBulkActions={this.__hasMultipleSelected} />

....

__hasMultipleSelected: function() {
  return false; //return true or false depending on data
}

....

var TopicNav = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
    <div className="row">
        <div className="col-lg-6">
            <div className="btn-group pull-right {this.props.showBulkActions ? 'show' : 'hidden'}">
                <button type="button" className="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">
                  Bulk Actions <span className="caret"></span>
                </button>
                <ul className="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                  <li><a href="#">Merge into New Session</a></li>
                  <li><a href="#">Add to Existing Session</a></li>
                  <li className="divider"></li>
                  <li><a href="#">Delete</a></li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    );
  }
});

Nothing is happening however, with the {this.props.showBulkActions ? 'show' : 'hidden'}. Am I doing anything wrong here?

Answer 1

In case you will need only one optional class name:

<div className={"btn-group pull-right " + (this.props.showBulkActions ? "show" : "")}>

Answer 2

Expending on @spitfire109's fine answer, one could do something like this:

rootClassNames() {
  let names = ['my-default-class'];
  if (this.props.disabled) names.push('text-muted', 'other-class');

  return names.join(' ');
}

and then within the render function:

<div className={this.rootClassNames()}></div>

keeps the jsx short

Answer 3

You can use this npm package. It handles everything and has options for static and dynamic classes based on a variable or a function.

// Support for string arguments
getClassNames('class1', 'class2');

// support for Object
getClassNames({class1: true, class2 : false});

// support for all type of data
getClassNames('class1', 'class2', null, undefined, 3, ['class3', 'class4'], { 
    class5 : function() { return false; },
    class6 : function() { return true; }
});

<div className={getClassNames('show', {class1: true, class2 : false})} /> // "show class1"

Answer 4

Or use npm classnames. It is very easy and useful especially for constructing the list of classes

Answer 5

More elegant solution, which is better for maintenance and readability:

const classNames = ['js-btn-connect'];

if (isSelected) { classNames.push('is-selected'); }

<Element className={classNames.join(' ')}/>

Answer 6

If you are using a transpiler (such as Babel or Traceur) you can use the new ES6 "template strings".

Here is the answer of @spitfire109, modified accordingly:

<div className={`btn-group pull-right ${this.props.showBulkActions ? 'shown' : 'hidden'}`}>

This approach allows you to do neat things like that, rendering either s-is-shown or s-is-hidden:

<div className={`s-${this.props.showBulkActions ? 'is-shown' : 'is-hidden'}`}>