TouchableOpacity not working inside an absolute positioned View

Question

I have an absolute-positioned View that holds three TouchableOpacity components, and the three fail to respond they are just not working at all. What is going wrong here?

Code

<View style={[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateContainer, {width: this.windowWidth, height: this.headerSmallHeight, position: 'absolute', left: 0, top: floatedHeaderTitleTop, elevation: 2}]}>
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.getDocuments('high')} style={[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateTextContainer, highSelected.borderStyle]}>
        <Text style={[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateText, highSelected.textStyle]}>HIGH</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.getDocuments('normal')} style={[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateTextContainer, normalSelected.borderStyle]}>
        <Text style={[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateText, normalSelected.textStyle]}>NORMAL</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.getDocuments('low')} style={[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateTextContainer, lowSelected.borderStyle]}>
        <Text style {[styles.highNormalLowDocListHeaderStateText, lowSelected.textStyle]}>LOW</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
</View>

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Answer 1

Look at your import. If import { TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native-gesture-handler'; doesn't work, you need import this from 'react-native'.

Answer 2

Just add zIndex : 1 to the view containing the buttons.

Also note: adding elevation adds shadow to android button and sometimes elevation may also be a issue if it's added to parent and not added to child then the child button may not work (Rare Case).

eg:

buttonContainers:
  {
    zIndex: 1,
    alignSelf: 'flex-end',
    position: 'absolute',
    top:5,
    right: 5,
    height: 40,
    borderWidth: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignContent: 'center',
    width: 80
  },

Answer 3

Importing TouchableOpacity from "react-native-gesture-handler" worked for me

import { TouchableOpacity} from 'react-native-gesture-handler'

Answer 4

Even though the tab bar visually appears to be above the content in the list, the touch events for the list may be receiving it before the tab bar. Add a zIndex to the tab bar to allow it to receive touch events first.

Answer 5

If onPress of TouchableOpacity is not working, In that case, TouchableNativeFeedback will work

Example:

{ Platform.OS === 'ios' ?
  <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.showPassordText()}>
    <Text style={{ color: 'red' }}>SHOW</Text>  
  </TouchableOpacity>
  :
  <TouchableNativeFeedback onPress={() => this.showPassordText()}>
    <Text style={{ color: 'red' }}>SHOW</Text>
  </TouchableNativeFeedback>
}