drop-animation.md

Drop animation

Out of the box we provide a beautiful drop animation for you to use. We have worked hard to create an experience that feels responsive while also feeling like you are physically dropping an object. There may be situations in which you want to add an additional effect to the drop, or remove the drop animation entirely.

Styling a drop

You are able to add your own style to a <Draggable /> while it is dropping (such as background-color). You know a drop is occurring when DraggableStateSnapshot > DropAnimation is populated.

Patching the drop animation

In some cases you might want to add an additional transform or change the transition. In which case, you can patch the style of a <Draggable /> while a drop is occurring. (patch DraggableProvided > DraggableProps > DraggableStyle)

Here is the shape of DropAnimation:

type DropReason = 'DROP' | 'CANCEL';

type DropAnimation = {|
  // how long the animation will run for
  duration: number,
  // the animation curve that we will be using for the drop
  curve: string,
  // the x,y position will be be animating to as a part of the drop
  moveTo: Position,
  // when combining with another item, we animate the opacity when dropping
  opacity: ?number,
  // when combining with another item, we animate the scale when dropping
  scale: ?number,
|};

You can use the DraggableDroppingState to build up your own transform and transition properties during a drop.

function getStyle(style, snapshot) {
  if (!snapshot.isDropAnimating) {
    return style;
  }
  const { moveTo, curve, duration } = snapshot.dropAnimation;
  // move to the right spot
  const translate = `translate(${moveTo.x}px, ${moveTo.y}px)`;
  // add a bit of turn for fun
  const rotate = 'rotate(0.5turn)';

  // patching the existing style
  return {
    ...style,
    transform: `${translate} ${rotate}`,
    // slowing down the drop because we can
    transition: `all ${curve} ${duration + 1}s`,
  };
}

function TaskItem(props) {
  const { task, index } = props;
  return (
    <Draggable draggableId={task.id} index={index}>
      {(provided, snapshot) => (
        <div
          ref={provided.innerRef}
          {...provided.draggableProps}
          {...provided.dragHandleProps}
          isDragging={snapshot.isDragging && !snapshot.isDropAnimating}
          style={getStyle(provided.draggableProps.style, snapshot)}
        >
          {task.content}
        </div>
      )}
    </Draggable>
  );
}

Skipping the drop animation

Generally speaking you should be avoiding this. A drop animation is an important affordance to communicate placement. Our drop animations do not prevent the user from dragging something else while the animation is running.

If you are seeing a strange drop behaviour, such as dropping to the wrong spot, our recommendation is to raise an issue as it could be a bug with react-beautiful-dnd or a setup issue.

If you do have use case where it makes sense to remove the drop animation you will need to add a transition-duration property of almost 0s. This will skip the drop animation.

Do not make the transition-duration actually 0s. It should be set at a near 0s value such as 0.001s. The reason for this is that if you set transition-duration to 0s then a onTransitionEnd event will not fire - and we use that to know when the drop animation is finished.

function getStyle(style, snapshot) {
  if (!snapshot.isDropAnimating) {
    return style;
  }
  return {
    ...style,
    // cannot be 0, but make it super tiny
    transitionDuration: `0.001s`,
  };
}

function TaskItem(props) {
  const { task, index } = props;
  return (
    <Draggable draggableId={task.id} index={index}>
      {(provided, snapshot) => (
        <div
          innerRef={provided.innerRef}
          {...provided.draggableProps}
          {...provided.dragHandleProps}
          style={getStyle(provided.draggableProps.style, snapshot)}
        >
          {task.content}
        </div>
      )}
    </Draggable>
  );
}

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