React MUI is a UI library that provides fully-loaded components, bringing our own design system to our production-ready components. MUI is a user interface library that provides predefined and customizable React components for faster and easy web development, these Material-UI components are based on top of Material Design by Google.
React MUI How To Customize is the process of modifying the default styles and behavior of components in the Material-UI library to fit the specific needs of a project or application. This customization can include changes to colors, typography, layout, and other design elements to match the look and feel of the project.
How To Customize Content:
- One-off Customization: It refers to making small changes to the default styling of a specific component in a single instance, rather than creating a global theme or customizing all instances of a particular component. This can be done by using the ‘sx’ prop, Overriding styles with class names, or with State classes.
- Reusable Component: It refers to a component that can be used in multiple places throughout an application, rather than being specific to a single location or page. These components can be customized using the ‘styled’ function that overrides the default styles for a specific component.
- Global theme overrides: It refers to the process of customizing the default styling of all components in an application by creating a global theme. This can be done by using the ‘createTheme’ function to create a new theme object that overrides the default values for various styling options, such as colors, typography, and spacing. Once a theme is created, it can be passed to the ‘ThemeProvider’ component,
- Global CSS override: It refers to the process of customizing the default styling of all components in an application by applying global CSS styles. This can be done by importing a CSS file containing custom styles into the root of the application, or by using the ‘GlobalStyles’ component to create a global style component that can be used to apply styles to specific elements or classes throughout the application.
Creating React Project:
Step 1: Create React app by writing the below code in any command line.
npx create-react-app app_name
Step 2: Then, we have to move into the folder we will be working on.
cd project_name
Step 3: We will be installing the @mui/material library for working on our project.
npm install @mui/material @emotion/react npm install @emotion/styled @mui/icons-material
Project Structure:
Folder Structure
Steps to run the application: Write the below code in the terminal to run the server:
npm start
Example 1: Below is the code for styling a Box component using the ‘sx’ prop.
- App.js
Javascript
import styled from "@emotion/styled"; import { Box } from '@mui/material'; const Text = styled.div` padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; `; const Logo = const SimpleExample = () => { return ( <Box sx={{ width: '200px', height: '400px', boxShadow: 2, margin: '10px', bgcolor: '#9dedb2' }}> <img src={Logo} alt='GFG logo' width='200px' height='200px' /> <Text>A Computer Science portal for neveropen. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles. </Text> </Box> ); } export default SimpleExample; |
Output:
Simple example using ‘sx’ prop
Example 2: Below is the code for making a Reusable Slider component using Global CSS override.
- App.js
Javascript
import * as React from 'react'; import { Slider, Box } from '@mui/material'; import { alpha, styled } from '@mui/material/styles'; import GlobalStyles from '@mui/material/GlobalStyles'; const SuccessSlider = styled(Slider)(({ theme }) => ({ width: 250, color: theme.palette.error.main, '& .MuiSlider-thumb': {import * as React from 'react'; import { Slider, Box } from '@mui/material'; import { alpha, styled } from '@mui/material/styles'; import GlobalStyles from '@mui/material/GlobalStyles'; const SuccessSlider = styled(Slider)(({ theme }) => ({ width: 250, color: theme.palette.error.main, '& .MuiSlider-thumb': { '&:hover, &.Mui-focusVisible': { boxShadow: `0px 0px 0px 8px ${alpha(theme.palette.error.main, 0.16)}`, }, '&.Mui-active': { boxShadow: `0px 0px 0px 14px ${alpha(theme.palette.success.main, 0.16)}`, color: theme.palette.success.main }, }, })); const Example = () => { return ( <Box sx={{ boxShadow: 2, margin: '50px', width: '350px', textAlign: 'center' }}> <GlobalStyles styles={{ h1: { color: 'purple' } }} /> <h1>This is a Slider</h1> <SuccessSlider defaultValue={30} valueLabelDisplay='on' sx={{ margin: '20px' }} /> </Box> ) } export default Example; '&:hover, &.Mui-focusVisible': { boxShadow: `0px 0px 0px 8px ${alpha(theme.palette.error.main, 0.16)}`, }, '&.Mui-active': { boxShadow: `0px 0px 0px 14px ${alpha(theme.palette.success.main, 0.16)}`, color: theme.palette.success.main }, }, })); const Example = () => { return ( <Box sx={{ boxShadow: 2, margin: '50px', width: '350px', textAlign: 'center' }}> <GlobalStyles styles={{ h1: { color: 'purple' } }} /> <h1>This is a Slider</h1> <SuccessSlider defaultValue={30} valueLabelDisplay='on' sx={{ margin: '20px' }} /> </Box> ) } export default Example; |
Output:
This is a Reusable Slider Component using Global CSS override
Reference: https://mui.com/material-ui/customization/how-to-customize/
