Monday, 1 July 2019

Element values shifting and changing before transition with react-transition-group

I noticed this behavior while using the react-transition-group package in a gatsby project I'm working on. I have a list of "tags" that are added to an active list as they are picked from another master list. Clicking a tag from the master list adds it to the active list, and clicking a tag from the active list removes it. Pretty much how you would expect something like this to work.

The transition in works just fine, but when transitioning out the tags re-organize themselves in a strange way. We have five tags with the following values:

  • Dairy Free
  • Party Food
  • Family Sized
  • Low Cholesterol
  • Low Sodium

If you click the Family Sized tag to remove it, the following occurs:

  1. Family Sized disappears instantly
  2. Low Cholesterol and Low Sodium shift instantly to the left
  3. The last tag changes to Low Sodium instantly
  4. The last tag, now with the value of Low Sodium transitions out

The expected behavior is that the Family Sized tag transitions out from where it is in the middle of the group. I should note that it works fine if you remove the last tag from the active list, this only happens when removing a tag from any other position.

Here is a slowed-down GIF of the transition and here is my code:

<TransitionGroup className='tag-container'>
  {filter.map((tag, index) => {
    return (
      <CSSTransition key={index} timeout={250} classNames={`tag`}>
        <TagButton value={tag} onClick={onClickFunction} className={`${screenStyle} active`}>{tag}</TagButton>
      </CSSTransition>
    )
  })}
</TransitionGroup>

  • filter is an array destructured from the component's state.
  • There is a <StaticQuery> from gatsby used in the same render() method of the component if that matters.
  • The <TagButton> is a styled component from styled-components package, not a separately imported component.


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