Prevent content swipe selection in React Tab component

29 Aug 202310 minutes to read

We can prevent the tab selection on touch swipe action by using the Tab selecting event. Refer the below sample with preventing swipe selection.

import * as React from "react";
import { useRef } from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';
import { TabComponent, TabItemDirective, TabItemsDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';

const App = () => {
  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
  const tabInstance = useRef < TabComponent > (null);
  // define the array of data
  let headertext;
  headertext = [{ text: "Twitter" }, { text: "Facebook" }, { text: "WhatsApp" }];
  const select = (e) => {
    if (e.isSwiped) {
      e.cancel = true;
    }
  }

  return (
    <TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto' id='tabelement' ref={tabInstance} selecting={select}>
      <TabItemsDirective>
        <TabItemDirective header={headertext[0]}
          content={'Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character ' +
            'messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read ' +
            'them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app Twitter Inc. is based in San ' +
            'Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, ' +
            'Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, ' +
            'with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.The service also handled 1.6 billion ' +
            'search queries per day.'} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headertext[1]}
          content={'Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was ' +
            'launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo ' +
            'Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The founders had initially limited the website\' ' +
            'membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford ' +
            'University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students.'} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headertext[2]}
          content={'WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones that operates ' +
            'under a subscription business model. It uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and ' +
            'audio media messages to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers. As of February 2016, WhatsApp had a user ' +
            'base of up to one billion,[10] making it the most globally popular messaging application. WhatsApp Inc., based in ' +
            'Mountain View, California, was acquired by Facebook Inc. on February 19, 2014, for approximately US$19.3 billion.'} />
      </TabItemsDirective>
    </TabComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<App />);
import * as React from "react";
import { useRef } from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { TabComponent, TabItemDirective, TabItemsDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import { SelectEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';

const App = () => {
  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
  const tabInstance = useRef<TabComponent>(null);
  // define the array of data
  let headertext: any;
  headertext = [{ text: "Twitter" }, { text: "Facebook" }, { text: "WhatsApp" }];
  const select = (e: SelectEventArgs) => {
    if (e.isSwiped) {
      e.cancel = true;
    }
  }

  return (
    <TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto' id='tabelement' ref={tabInstance} selecting={select}>
      <TabItemsDirective>
        <TabItemDirective header={headertext[0]}
          content={'Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character ' +
            'messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read ' +
            'them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app Twitter Inc. is based in San ' +
            'Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, ' +
            'Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, ' +
            'with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.The service also handled 1.6 billion ' +
            'search queries per day.'} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headertext[1]}
          content={'Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was ' +
            'launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo ' +
            'Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The founders had initially limited the website\' ' +
            'membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford ' +
            'University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students.'} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headertext[2]}
          content={'WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones that operates ' +
            'under a subscription business model. It uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and ' +
            'audio media messages to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers. As of February 2016, WhatsApp had a user ' +
            'base of up to one billion,[10] making it the most globally popular messaging application. WhatsApp Inc., based in ' +
            'Mountain View, California, was acquired by Facebook Inc. on February 19, 2014, for approximately US$19.3 billion.'} />
      </TabItemsDirective>
    </TabComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<App />);
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