success/dev-docs/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/api/children-components/sidebar.mdx

# Sidebar

The editor comes with a default sidebar on the right in LTR (Left to Right) mode which contains the library. You can also add your own custom sidebar(s) by rendering this component as a child of `<Excalidraw>`.

## Props

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | Yes | Sidebar name that uniquely identifies it. |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | Yes | Content you want to render inside the sidebar. |
| `onStateChange` | `(state: AppState["openSidebar"]) => void` | No | Invoked on open/close or tab change. No need to act on this event, as the editor manages the sidebar open state on its own. |
| `onDock` | `(docked: boolean) => void` | No | Invoked when the user toggles the `dock` button. Passed the current docked state. |
| `docked` | `boolean` | No | Indicates whether the sidebar is `docked`. By default, the sidebar is `undocked`. If passed, the docking becomes controlled. |
| `className` | `string` | No |  |
| `style` | `React.CSSProperties` | No |  |

At minimum, each sidebar needs to have a unique `name` prop, and render some content inside it, which can be either composed from the exported sidebar sub-components, or custom elements.

Unless `docked={true}` is passed, the sidebar will close when the user clicks outside of it. It can also be closed using the close button in the header, if you render the `<Sidebar.Header>` component.

Further, if the sidebader doesn't comfortably fit in the editor, it won't be dockable. To decide the breakpoint for docking you can use [UIOptions.dockedSidebarBreakpoint](/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/api/props/ui-options#dockedsidebarbreakpoint).

To make your sidebar user-dockable, you need to supply `props.docked` (current docked state) alongside `props.onDock` callback (to listen for and handle docked state changes). The component doesn't track local state for the `docked` prop, so you need to manage it yourself.

## Sidebar.Header

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | No | Content you want to render inside the sidebar header next to the `close` / `dock` buttons. |
| `className` | `string` | No |  |

Renders a sidebar header which contains a close button, and a dock button (when applicable). You can also render custom content in addition.

Can be nested inside specific tabs, or rendered as direct child of `<Sidebar>` for the whole sidebar component.

## Sidebar.Tabs

| Prop       | Type              | Required | Description                    |
| ---------- | ----------------- | -------- | ------------------------------ |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | No       | Container for individual tabs. |

Sidebar may contain inner tabs. Each `<Sidebar.Tab>` must be rendered inside this `<Sidebar.Tabs>` container component.

## Sidebar.Tab

| Prop       | Type              | Required | Description      |
| ---------- | ----------------- | -------- | ---------------- |
| `tab`      | `string`          | Yes      | Unique tab name. |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | No       | Tab content.     |

Content of a given sidebar tab. It must be rendered inside `<Sidebar.Tabs>`.

## Sidebar.TabTriggers

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | No | Container for individual tab triggers. |

Container component for tab trigger buttons to switch between tabs.

## Sidebar.TabTrigger

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `tab` | `string` | Yes | Tab name to toggle. |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | No | Tab trigger content, such as a label. |

A given tab trigger button that switches to a given sidebar tab. It must be rendered inside `<Sidebar.TabTriggers>`.

## Sidebar.Trigger

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | Yes | Sidebar name the trigger will control. |
| `tab` | `string` | No | Optional tab to open. |
| `onToggle` | `(open: boolean) => void` | No | Callback invoked on toggle. |
| `title` | `string` | No | A11y title. |
| `children` | `React.ReactNode` | No | Content (usually label) you want to render inside the button. |
| `icon` | `JSX.Element` | No | Trigger icon if any. |
| `className` | `string` | No |  |
| `style` | `React.CSSProperties` | No |  |

You can use the [`ref.toggleSidebar({ name: "custom" })`](/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/api/props/excalidraw-api#toggleSidebar) api to control the sidebar, but we export a trigger button to make UI use cases easier.

## Example

```tsx live
function App() {
  const [docked, setDocked] = useState(false);

  return (
    <div style={{ height: "580px" }}>
      <Excalidraw
        UIOptions={{
          // this effectively makes the sidebar dockable on any screen size,
          // ignoring if it fits or not
          dockedSidebarBreakpoint: 0,
        }}
      >
        <Sidebar name="custom" docked={docked} onDock={setDocked}>
          <Sidebar.Header />
          <Sidebar.Tabs style={{ padding: "0.5rem" }}>
            <Sidebar.Tab tab="one">Tab one!</Sidebar.Tab>
            <Sidebar.Tab tab="two">Tab two!</Sidebar.Tab>
            <Sidebar.TabTriggers>
              <Sidebar.TabTrigger tab="one">One</Sidebar.TabTrigger>
              <Sidebar.TabTrigger tab="two">Two</Sidebar.TabTrigger>
            </Sidebar.TabTriggers>
          </Sidebar.Tabs>
        </Sidebar>

        <Footer>
          <Sidebar.Trigger
            name="custom"
            tab="one"
            style={{
              marginLeft: "0.5rem",
              background: "#70b1ec",
              color: "white",
            }}
          >
            Toggle Custom Sidebar
          </Sidebar.Trigger>
        </Footer>
      </Excalidraw>
    </div>
  );
}
```