Trap Focus

The trapFocus helper allows you to trap the focus within a Modal.

Usage

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import {
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  Modal,
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  Button,
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  trapFocus,
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  useModal
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} from '@cerberus/react'
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function SomePage() {
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 const { modalRef, show, close } = useModal()
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 const handleKeyDown = trapFocus(modalRef)
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  return (
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    <div>
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      <Button onClick={show}>Show Modal</Button>
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      <Modal onKeyDown={handleKeyDown} ref={modalRef}>
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        This is a custom modal!
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        <Button onClick={close}>
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          Close
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        </Button>
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      </Modal>
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    </div>
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  )
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}

API

define function useModal(modalRef: RefObject<HTMLDialogElement>): KeyboardEventHandler<HTMLDialogElement>

Arguments

The trapFocus helper accepts a single argument:

Name	Default	Description
ref	null	The `ref` of the dialog element to trap focus within.