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React MUI TimelineDot API

Material-UI is a UI library providing predefined robust and customizable components for React for easier web development. The MUI design is based on top of Material Design by Google.

In this article, we are going to discuss the React MUI TimelineDot API. The TimelineDot is the dot that appears before the content component showing a bullet-like point in the timeline. The API provides a lot of functionality and we are going to learn to implement them.

Import TimelineDot API:

import TimelineDot from '@mui/lab/TimelineDot';
// or
import { TimelineDot } from '@mui/lab';

Props List: Here is the list of different props used with this component. We can access them and modify them according to our needs.

  • children: It is a component similar to the table row.
  • classes: This overrides the existing styles or adds new styles to the component.
  • sx: The system prop allows defining system overrides as well as additional CSS styles. 
  • color(error / grey / info / inherit / primary / secondary / success / warning): We can apply different colors from the MUI itself to the TimelineDot.
  • variant(filled/outlined/string): The dot can either be filled or outlined.

Syntax: Create the TimelineDot component as follows:

<TimelineItem>
    <TimelineSeparator>
        <TimelineDot />
    </TimelineSeparator>
    <TimelineContent>HTML</TimelineContent>
</TimelineItem>

Installing and Creating React app, and adding the MUI dependencies.

Step 1: Create a react project using the following command.

npx create-react-app gfg_tutorial

Step 2: Get into the project directory

cd gfg_tutorial

Step 3: Install the MUI dependencies as follows:

npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled @mui/lab

Step 4: Run the project as follows:

npm start

Example 1: In the following example, we have a timeline dot with different colours.

App.js




import "./App.css";
import Timeline from "@mui/lab/Timeline";
import TimelineItem from "@mui/lab/TimelineItem";
import TimelineSeparator from "@mui/lab/TimelineSeparator";
import TimelineConnector from "@mui/lab/TimelineConnector";
import TimelineContent from "@mui/lab/TimelineContent";
import TimelineDot from "@mui/lab/TimelineDot";
function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <div
        className="head"
        style={{
          width: "fit-content",
          margin: "auto",
        }}
      >
        <h1
          style={{
            color: "green",
          }}
        >
          neveropen
        </h1>
        <strong>React MUI TimelineDot API</strong>
      </div>
  
      <Timeline>
        <TimelineItem position="left">
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="error" />
            <TimelineConnector />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>Frontend Learning Path</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
        <TimelineItem>
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="primary" />
            <TimelineConnector />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>HTML</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
        <TimelineItem>
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="warning" />
            <TimelineConnector />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>CSS</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
        <TimelineItem>
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="success" />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>Javascript</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
      </Timeline>
    </div>
  );
}
  
export default App;


Output:

 

Example 2: In the following example, we have outlined TimelineDot.

App.js




import "./App.css";
import Timeline from "@mui/lab/Timeline";
import TimelineItem from "@mui/lab/TimelineItem";
import TimelineSeparator from "@mui/lab/TimelineSeparator";
import TimelineConnector from "@mui/lab/TimelineConnector";
import TimelineContent from "@mui/lab/TimelineContent";
import TimelineDot from "@mui/lab/TimelineDot";
function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <div
        className="head"
        style={{
          width: "fit-content",
          margin: "auto",
        }}
      >
        <h1
          style={{
            color: "green",
          }}
        >
          neveropen
        </h1>
        <strong>React MUI TimelineDot API</strong>
      </div>
  
      <Timeline>
        <TimelineItem position="left">
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="error" variant="outlined" />
            <TimelineConnector />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>Frontend Learning Path</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
        <TimelineItem>
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="primary" variant="outlined" />
            <TimelineConnector />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>HTML</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
        <TimelineItem>
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="warning" variant="outlined" />
            <TimelineConnector />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>CSS</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
        <TimelineItem>
          <TimelineSeparator>
            <TimelineDot color="success" variant="outlined" />
          </TimelineSeparator>
          <TimelineContent>Javascript</TimelineContent>
        </TimelineItem>
      </Timeline>
    </div>
  );
}
  
export default App;


Output:

 

Reference: https://mui.com/material-ui/api/timeline-dot/

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