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Material-UI’s Paper component is intended exactly as it sounds: to give apps and components a paper-like background and feel. The Paper component is often spaced and shadowed using padding, margin, and either the elevation or outlined variant. In this demo, I’ll show the look and feel of four different React Material-UI Tables wrapped in a Paper component with different … Read more
Material-UI has an extremely robust and customizable slider component. Naturally, I want to push it even farther. In this demo, I’ll create slider thumbs that have images and set slider behavior based on slider position. Code Sandbox link is in the Resources section. MUI Slider Image Thumbs There are two methods for creating slider thumbs … Read more
The goal of this demo is to achieve equal item heights and masonry-style item wrapping in Material-UI’s Grid. This guide focuses on two things: Stretch all items in a Material-UI Grid row to be the same height. Achieve a “masonry-style” layout where shorter and narrower items can wrap in a column when vertical space allows … Read more
Material-UI is a popular component library with excellent functionality and slick styling. Sometimes, however, we need just a bit more than what is available “out-of-the-box”. Material-UI comes with a Table component with significant customizations and styling options. The Table even includes a sticky header option. However, it does not have a prop for setting ‘sticky … Read more
Material-UI’s Box component is the perfect tool for constructing your layout precisely as desired. In this example I will wrap Buttons in the Box component and align left, center, and right with justifyContent. I will align vertically with alignItems. Then I will add margin and padding for additional spacing. This tutorial show both MUI v4 … Read more
Material-UI AppBar is a useful component for positioning titles, hamburger menus, admin buttons, and more. Styling the AppBar background color, text color, positioning, font, and any other CSS property is a common need and can be tricky to figure out. This demo will show several methods for customizing the AppBar, with a particular focus on … Read more
The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to use query params in React Router, including using nested routes. However, instead of a boring how-to, I created a tutorial that includes: Dynamically loading Material-UI (MUI) icons. Using Material-UI Buttons as React Router Links. Programmatically setting the route using the useHistory React Router Hook. Extracting query params using … Read more
A search bar on a UI table is a feature many users have come to expect. However, the Material-UI Table component does not have an out-of-the-box search feature. The React community has created several Material-UI search bar examples and solutions, two of which I will discuss in this article. There is also no filter by … Read more
Material-UI is a slick and powerful component library for quickly building React apps. Material-UI’s theme palette is the foundation for uniquely theming your MUI components so that your app has a distinct “look and feel”. However, it can be challenging to extend the palette to fit your app’s distinct needs. ***UPDATED FOR MUI v5 In … Read more
Customizing Material-UI Table Cell width is a common requirement. Precisely styling the TableCell component is also often requested by users. In this demo, I will show how to create a table sized with fixed width or a dynamic width that fits to the contents of the table cells. I will also set TableCell hover color, … Read more
