Blazor Animation Container

The Blazor Animation Container component enables you to create messages and popups or expandable containers. It lets you define its animation, size and position, and arbitrary content.

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If you are looking for an option to create Notification, Tooltip or expandable container such as Drawer, you may use the dedicated components.

To use the animation container, add the TelerikAnimationContainer tag.

How to use the Animation Container

@* Click the button to toggle the visibility of the customized popup *@

<div style="position:relative; border: 1px solid red; height: 300px;">
    <TelerikButton OnClick="@ToggleContainer">Toggle Animation Container</TelerikButton>

    <TelerikAnimationContainer @ref="myPopupRef" Top="50px" Left="50px" Width="250px" Height="150px" AnimationType="AnimationType.ZoomOut" Class="k-popup">
        <p>
            The "k-popup" class adds some background and borders which you can define through your own styles instead.
        </p>
        <p>
            My parent element has <code>position: relative</code> to control my <code>Top</code> and <code>Left</code> offset.
        </p>
    </TelerikAnimationContainer>
</div>

@code {
    Telerik.Blazor.Components.TelerikAnimationContainer myPopupRef;

    async Task ToggleContainer()
    {
        await myPopupRef.ToggleAsync();
    }
}

The result from the code snippet above

The component renderes in its place of declaration and has position: absolute. Parent elements in the DOM with special positioning can affect its position and the calculation of the Top and Left offsets.

If you have overflow: hidden on the parent element, you may want to use position: absolute or fixed on it, instead of relative like in the example above.

Toggling an additional element with the desired positioning together with the animation container can even let you size it up to match the viewport and adding an @onclick handler to it lets you hide the popup when the user clicks outside of it.

The animation container exposes the following properties and methods:

• ShowAsync(), HideAsync() and ToggleAsync() - to control whether the container is shown.
  • To show an animation container immediately when the page loads, use the OnAfterRenderAsync event.
• Width and Height - to control its size. The Height cannot be in percentage values, it is recommended to use pixels for it.
• Top and Left - to control its offset from its parent with special positioning (relative, absolute, fixed).
• AnimationType and AnimationDuration to control the way it is shown and hidden. The animation duration is in milliseconds (defaults to 300), and the type is of the Telerik.Blazor.AnimationType enum with the following options:
  • SlideUp,
  • SlideIn,
  • SlideDown,
  • SlideRight,
  • SlideLeft,
  • PushUp,
  • PushDown,
  • PushLeft,
  • PushRight,
  • Fade,
  • ZoomIn,
  • ZoomOut
• ShowDelay and HideDelay - defines the delay between showing/hiding the component and the respective animation start. Both values are in milliseconds and default to 20.
• ParentClass - a CSS class rendered on the main wrapping element of the Animation container.
• Class - a CSS class rendered on the inner element of the Animation container.

Explore the animation options

@*Choose a new animation from the dropdown and toggle the container*@

<div style="position:relative;">

    <select @bind="AnimType">
        @foreach (var possibleAnimation in Enum.GetValues(typeof(AnimationType)))
        {
            <option value="@possibleAnimation">@possibleAnimation</option>
        }
    </select>

    <TelerikButton OnClick="@ShowContainer">Show Animation Container</TelerikButton>

    <TelerikAnimationContainer @ref="myPopup" Top="40px" Width="200px" Height="200px" AnimationType="@AnimType" Class="my-popup">
        My content goes here.<br />
        <TelerikButton OnClick="@HideContainer">Hide Animation Container</TelerikButton>
    </TelerikAnimationContainer>
</div>

@code {
    TelerikAnimationContainer myPopup;
    AnimationType AnimType { get; set; } = AnimationType.Fade;

    async Task ShowContainer()
    {
        await myPopup.ShowAsync();
    }

    async Task HideContainer()
    {
        await myPopup.HideAsync();
    }
}

<style>
    .my-popup {
        border: 2px solid red;
        background: #ccc;
    }
</style>

See Also

• Live Demos: Animation Container
• API Reference