angular-anchored-floating-box

An easy, declarative way to render a floating box with arbitrary content anchored to an element.

Table of contents

• Angular compatibility
• Installation
• Available APIs
  • TriggerFloatingBoxForDirective
    • Inputs
  • AnchoredFloatingBox
    • Inputs
    • Outputs
    • Methods
  • Example:
  • Result
• Real world example

Angular compatibility

This library	Angular
3.x.x	19.x.x
2.x.x	19.x.x
1.x.x	16 - 18

Installation

• npm

  npm i -S @lazycuh/angular-anchored-floating-box
  

• pnpm

  pnpm i -S @lazycuh/angular-anchored-floating-box
  

• yarn

  yarn add @lazycuh/angular-anchored-floating-box
  

Available APIs

These are the symbols that are available from this package

TriggerFloatingBoxForDirective

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
lcTriggerFloatingBoxFor	AnchoredFloatingBox	Required input that accepts a template reference variable to a AnchoredFloatingBox component that specifies the content of the floating box, the floating box is anchored to the HTMLElement to which this input is applied.

AnchoredFloatingBox

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
class	string	Optional CSS class attribute to add.
theme	light | dark	Optional theme. Default is light.

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
closed	() => void	Called after the floating is closed.
beforeOpened	() => void	Called before the floating is opened.
opened	() => void	Called after the floating is opened.

Methods

• AnchoredFloatingBox.setDefaultTheme(theme): Set the default theme that will be used for all future floating boxes. Use this method if you want to set the theme once instead of each time you render the floating box.

Example:

@Component({
  changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush,
  selector: 'lc-test',
  // Import the directive and the component to use it
  imports: [TriggerFloatingBoxForDirective, AnchoredFloatingBox],
  template: `
    <button
      id="click-me"
      [lcTriggerFloatingBoxFor]="floatingBoxTemplateRefVar"
      type="button">
      Click me
    </button>

    <lc-anchored-floating-box
      #floatingBoxTemplateRefVar
      class="test-example"
      theme="dark">
      Hello Angular!!!</span>
    </ng-template>
  `
})
class MyComponent {}

Result

• Light theme

• Dark theme

It will also reposition itself if it overflows the top or bottom edge of the viewport like so.

Real world example

Below is a screenshot of a personal app of mine at https://memecomposer.com that uses this component. Clicking on the brush icon button popped open an anchored floating box, then clicking "Text appearance" button inside of it opened another anchored floating box that is independent of the previous one and any others.