react-bootstrap component Switches not working

Question

The bootstrap switches not seems to be working. Even the documentation version not workng

<Form>
  <Form.Check 
    type="switch"
    id="custom-switch"
    label="Check this switch"
  />
  <Form.Check 
    disabled
    type="switch"
    label="disabled switch"
    id="disabled-custom-switch"
  />
</Form>

Solution 1

Simple FormCheck is working for me:

<FormCheck 
  id="switchEnabled"
  type="switch"
  checked={this.state.settings.enabled}
  onChange={this.toggleEnabled}
  label="Enable"
/>

The key point was to provide id. Another important thing (to load the initial value) was to use checked property.

Solution 2

Unfortunately documentation for the switch isn't the greatest. Nevertheless, the following should help with setting up the switch for your use.

const [isSwitchOn, setIsSwitchOn] = useState(false);

const onSwitchAction = () => {
  setIsSwitchOn(!isSwitchOn);
};

...
<Form>
  <Form.Switch
    onChange={onSwitchAction}
    id="custom-switch"
    label="anything you want to put here"
    checked={isSwitchOn}
    disabled // apply if you want the switch disabled
  />
</Form>
...

Solution 3

I found an approach.

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { Container, Form, FormCheck, Button } from "react-bootstrap";

import "./styles.css";
import "bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css";

function App() {
  const [swt, setSwt] = React.useState(true);
  const [swt2, setSwt2] = React.useState(true);

  return (
    <Container className="App">
      Aprroch 1
      <FormCheck custom type="switch">
        <FormCheck.Input isInvalid checked={swt} />
        <FormCheck.Label onClick={() => setSwt(!swt)}>
          {`Value is ${swt}`}
        </FormCheck.Label>
      </FormCheck>
      Approch 2
      <Form.Check custom type="switch">
        <Form.Check.Input isInvalid checked={swt2} />
        <Form.Check.Label onClick={() => setSwt2(!swt2)}>
          {`Value is ${swt2}`}
        </Form.Check.Label>
      </Form.Check>
    </Container>
  );
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
ReactDOM.render(<App />, rootElement);

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Solution 4

If you add the custom property it will show the switch button, but I'm still not able to toggle the switch...

<Form>
  <Form.Check
    custom
    type="switch"
    id="custom-switch"
    label="Check this switch"
  />
</Form>

Solution 5

I had a similar issue and adding custom as suggested in another answer showed the switch correctly but similarly the toggle would now work.

I noticed that I was pointing at an older version of react-bootstrap so changed this to point to the current version which at the time is v1.0.0-beta.16 and this allowed the toggle to work and custom to be removed.

So best to make sure you are pointing at the latest version of react-bootstrap if you're having problems like this: React Bootstrap

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