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Bipin Rajbhar
Bipin Rajbhar

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The Beginner's Guide To React: Styling React Component with className and inline Styles

Inline Styling

To style, a React element we need to pass an object instead of a string to the style attribute.

Note: The key of an object must in camelCase and the value is usually a string.

Example

<body>
    <div id="root">This will be replace by React</div>

    <script src="https://unpkg.com/react@16.13.1/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16.7.0/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone@7.9.4/babel.js"></script>
    <script type="text/babel">
      const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");

      const style = {
        display: "inline-block",
        fontFamily: "sans-serif",
        margin: "24px",
        padding: "4px 8px",
        backgroundColor: "#1a202c",
        color: "white",
        borderRadius: "8px"
      };

      const element = <h1 style={style}>DEV</h1>;

      ReactDOM.render(element, rootElement);
    </script>
</body>
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CSS Stylesheet

You can write your own CSS styles in a separate file, just save the file with the .css extension and add it to the head tag.

Note: But here we are using tailwindcss framework.

<body>
    <div id="root">This will be replace by React</div>

    <script src="https://unpkg.com/react@16.13.1/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16.7.0/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone@7.9.4/babel.js"></script>
    <script type="text/babel">
      const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");

      const element = (
        <h1 className="inline-block m-6 px-2 py-1 rounded-md font-bold text-white bg-gray-900">
          DEV
        </h1>
      );

      ReactDOM.render(element, rootElement);
    </script>
</body>
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