Hello guys, I am Clark! In this post I am going to continue share and practice about more styled components!

Styling any component

When I read this part in documentation of styled component, I think styled component is very powerful for me. In the post that I share about styled component before, we all know the styled can create a component with style you want and we can direct using or expanding it.

In this chapter, we will learning how to styling existing components instead of HTML tags!

Install react-router-dom

If we want to practice styling any component, we need to using components other element ui framework provide.

So first, we need to use react-router-dom in our project(I think this is a common thing), The Link provided bu react-router-dom is a prefect component let us try to styling through styled component.

npm i react-router-dom

Styling existing component

When we finished previous step, we can import Link from react-router-dom:

import React from 'react';
import { HashRouter, Link } from 'react-router-dom';

const App = () => (
  <HashRouter>
    <Link>I am a link</Link>
  </HashRouter>
);

export default App;

So…should we writing inline style? Link code below:

const App = () => (
  <HashRouter>
    <!--inline style-->
    <Link style={{ textDecoration: 'none' }}>
      I am a link
    </Link>
  </HashRouter>
);

No!

We can wrap the Link through like Button component of last post. The wrap way is same, just give styled the Link parameter. Code snippet show you different between inline style and through styled component:

import React from 'react';
import { HashRouter, Link } from 'react-router-dom';
import styled from 'styled-components';

const NoneDecorationLink = styled(Link)`
  text-decoration: none;
`;

const App = () => (
  <HashRouter>
    <!--inline style-->
    <Link style={{ textDecoration: 'none' }}>
      I am a link
    </Link>
    <br />
    <!--styled component-->
    <NoneDecorationLink>
      I am a style link
    </NoneDecorationLink>
  </HashRouter>
);

export default App;

I think the styled component is clearer than inline style, but the result is same:

Conclusion

So if we use styled component we don’t need to consider how to expanding components provided by other element ui framework!