shift

shift() moves the floating element along the specified axes in order to keep it in view.

Without shift():

With shift():

Usage

import {computePosition, shift} from '@floating-ui/dom';
 
computePosition(referenceEl, floatingEl, {
  middleware: [shift()],
});

Options

These are the options you can pass to shift().

interface Options extends DetectOverflowOptions {
  mainAxis?: boolean;
  crossAxis?: boolean;
  limiter?: {
    fn: (middlewareArguments: MiddlewareArguments) => Coords;
    options?: any;
  };
}

mainAxis

default: true

This is the main axis in which shifting is applied.

• x-axis for 'top' and 'bottom' placements
• y-axis for 'left' and 'right' placements

shift({mainAxis: false});

crossAxis

default: false

This is the cross axis in which shifting is applied, the opposite axis of mainAxis.

Enabling this can lead to the floating element overlapping the reference element, which may not be desired and is often replaced by the flip() middleware.

shift({crossAxis: true});

limiter

default: no-op

This accepts a function that limits the shifting done, in order to prevent detachment or "overly-eager" behavior. The behavior is to stop shifting once the opposite edges of the elements are aligned.

import {shift, limitShift} from '@floating-ui/dom';
 
shift({limiter: limitShift()});

This function itself takes options.

limitShift.mainAxis

default: true

Whether to apply limiting on the main axis.

shift({
  limiter: limitShift({mainAxis: false}),
});

limitShift.crossAxis

default: true

Whether to apply limiting on the cross axis.

shift({
  limiter: limitShift({crossAxis: false}),
});

limitShift.offset

default: 0

This will offset when the limiting starts. A positive number will start limiting earlier, while negative later.

shift({
  limiter: limitShift({
    // Start limiting 5px earlier
    offset: 5,
  }),
});

This can also take a function, which provides the Rects of each element to read their dimensions:

shift({
  limiter: limitShift({
    // Start limiting by the reference's width earlier
    offset: ({reference, floating, placement}) =>
      reference.width,
  }),
});

You may also pass an object to configure both axes:

shift({
  limiter: limitShift({
    // object
    offset: {
      mainAxis: 10,
      crossAxis: 5,
    },
    // or a function which returns one
    offset: ({reference, floating, placement}) => ({
      mainAxis: reference.height,
      crossAxis: floating.width,
    }),
  }),
});

...detectOverflowOptions

All of detectOverflow's options can be passed. For instance:

shift({padding: 5}); // 0 by default

If you find the padding does not get applied on the right side, see Handling large content.

Data

The following data is available in middlewareData.shift:

interface Data {
  x: number;
  y: number;
}

x and y represent how much the floating element has been shifted along that axis. The values are offsets, and therefore can be negative.