Put the arrows below the menu — or anywhere in your layout
LeftArrow or RightArrow at all and renders both buttons in the Footer slot under the row, next to ordinary content.The arrows sit under the row — they read the same VisibilityContext, so they still disable at the ends.
Edit this example live in Storybook
How it works
ScrollMenu accepts a Footer component and renders it below the scroll container, inside the same VisibilityContext.Provider as the items. The story’s footer is a plain flex div holding some text and the two arrow buttons. Because context reaches it, each button calls React.useContext(VisibilityContext) and gets exactly the API it would get in the side slots — nothing about the arrows themselves changes.
Arrow state, same as ever
useLeftArrowVisible() and useRightArrowVisible() report whether the row already sits at that end; the story maps the result to disabled and fades the button out. Clicks call scrollPrev() and scrollNext(). None of this knows or cares where the button is mounted.
Notes
Headeris the mirror slot above the row, with the same contract.- The side
LeftArrow/RightArrowprops are just the pre-positioned variants — the same arrow components work in either spot. - The footer isn’t arrows-only: any component that reads
VisibilityContexthas the full API there. - The story’s
onWheelhandler pages by mouse wheel and leaves touchpad gestures to native scrolling.
Full source
Complete and copy-paste ready — this is the exact file behind the live-editable Storybook version.
import 'react-horizontal-scrolling-menu/dist/styles.css';
import styled from '@emotion/styled';
import React from 'react';
import {
type publicApiType,
ScrollMenu,
VisibilityContext,
} from 'react-horizontal-scrolling-menu';
export function BottomArrows() {
const [items] = React.useState(() => getItems());
const [selected, setSelected] = React.useState<string[]>([]);
const isItemSelected = (id: string): boolean =>
!!selected.find((el) => el === id);
const handleItemClick = (itemId: string) => {
const itemSelected = isItemSelected(itemId);
setSelected((currentSelected: string[]) =>
itemSelected
? currentSelected.filter((el) => el !== itemId)
: currentSelected.concat(itemId),
);
};
return (
<NoScrollbar>
<ScrollMenu Footer={Arrows} onWheel={onWheel}>
{items.map(({ id }) => (
<Card
title={id}
itemId={id} // NOTE: itemId is required for track items
key={id}
onClick={() => handleItemClick(id)}
selected={isItemSelected(id)}
/>
))}
</ScrollMenu>
</NoScrollbar>
);
}
export default BottomArrows;
const NoScrollbar = styled('div')({
'& .react-horizontal-scrolling-menu--scroll-container::-webkit-scrollbar': {
display: 'none',
},
'& .react-horizontal-scrolling-menu--scroll-container': {
scrollbarWidth: 'none',
'-ms-overflow-style': 'none',
},
});
const Arrows = () => (
<div
style={{
width: '100%',
display: 'flex',
justifyContent: 'center',
}}
>
Some other content
<div style={{ marginLeft: '10px', display: 'flex' }}>
<LeftArrow /> <RightArrow />
</div>
</div>
);
function LeftArrow() {
const visibility = React.useContext<publicApiType>(VisibilityContext);
const disabled = visibility.useLeftArrowVisible();
return (
<Arrow
disabled={disabled}
onClick={() => visibility.scrollPrev()}
testId="left-arrow"
>
Left
</Arrow>
);
}
function RightArrow() {
const visibility = React.useContext<publicApiType>(VisibilityContext);
const disabled = visibility.useRightArrowVisible();
return (
<Arrow
disabled={disabled}
onClick={() => visibility.scrollNext()}
testId="right-arrow"
>
Right
</Arrow>
);
}
function Arrow({
children,
disabled,
onClick,
className,
testId,
}: {
children: React.ReactNode;
disabled: boolean;
onClick: VoidFunction;
className?: string;
testId: string;
}) {
return (
<ArrowButton
disabled={disabled}
onClick={onClick}
className={'arrow' + `-${className}`}
data-testid={testId}
>
{children}
</ArrowButton>
);
}
const ArrowButton = styled('button')((props) => ({
cursor: 'pointer',
display: 'flex',
flexDirection: 'column',
justifyContent: 'center',
marginBottom: '2px',
opacity: props.disabled ? '0' : '1',
userSelect: 'none',
borderRadius: '6px',
borderWidth: '1px',
}));
function Card({
onClick,
selected,
title,
itemId,
}: {
onClick: (context: publicApiType) => void;
selected: boolean;
title: string;
itemId: string;
}) {
const visibility = React.useContext<publicApiType>(VisibilityContext);
const isVisible = visibility.useIsVisible(itemId, true);
return (
<CardBody
data-cy={itemId}
onClick={() => onClick(visibility)}
onKeyDown={(ev: React.KeyboardEvent) => {
ev.code === 'Enter' && onClick(visibility);
}}
data-testid="card"
role="button"
tabIndex={0}
className="card"
visible={isVisible}
selected={selected}
>
<div className="header">
<div>{title}</div>
<div className="visible">visible: {JSON.stringify(isVisible)}</div>
<div className="selected">selected: {JSON.stringify(!!selected)}</div>
</div>
<div className="background" />
</CardBody>
);
}
const CardBody = styled('div')<{ selected?: boolean; visible?: boolean }>(
(props) => ({
border: '1px solid',
display: 'inline-block',
margin: '0 10px',
width: '160px',
userSelect: 'none',
borderRadius: '8px',
overflow: 'hidden',
'& .header': {
backgroundColor: 'white',
},
'& .visible': {
backgroundColor: props.visible ? 'transparent' : 'gray',
},
'& .background': {
backgroundColor: props.selected ? 'green' : 'bisque',
height: '200px',
},
}),
);
const getId = (index: number) => `${'test'}${index}`;
const getItems = () =>
Array(10)
.fill(0)
.map((_, ind) => ({ id: getId(ind) }));
function onWheel(apiObj: publicApiType, ev: React.WheelEvent): void {
// NOTE: no good standart way to distinguish touchpad scrolling gestures
// but can assume that gesture will affect X axis, mouse scroll only Y axis
// of if deltaY too small probably is it touchpad
const isThouchpad = Math.abs(ev.deltaX) !== 0 || Math.abs(ev.deltaY) < 15;
if (isThouchpad) {
ev.stopPropagation();
return;
}
if (ev.deltaY < 0) {
apiObj.scrollNext();
} else {
apiObj.scrollPrev();
}
}