DropZone

DropZone is a component creating a drop zone area taking the full size of its parent element. It supports dropping files, HTML content or any other HTML drop event.

Usage

import { useState } from 'react';
import { DropZone } from '@wordpress/components';

const MyDropZone = () => {
    const [ hasDropped, setHasDropped ] = useState( false );

    return (
        <div>
            { hasDropped ? 'Dropped!' : 'Drop something here' }
            <DropZone
                onFilesDrop={ () => setHasDropped( true ) }
                onHTMLDrop={ () => setHasDropped( true ) }
                onDrop={ () => setHasDropped( true ) }
            />
        </div>
    );
}

Props

The component accepts the following props:

className

A CSS class to give to the wrapper element.

  • Type: String
  • Default: undefined

label

A string to be shown within the drop zone area.

  • Type: String
  • Default: Drop files to upload

onFilesDrop

The function is called when dropping a file into the DropZone. It receives an array of dropped files as an argument.

  • Type: Function
  • Required: No
  • Default: noop

onHTMLDrop

The function is called when dropping HTML into the DropZone. It receives the HTML being dropped as an argument.

  • Type: Function
  • Required: No
  • Default: noop

onDrop

The function is generic drop handler called if the onFilesDrop or onHTMLDrop are not called. It receives the drop event object as an argument.

  • Type: Function
  • Required: No
  • Default: noop