React MUI Display

Last Updated : 13 Oct, 2022

Material-UI is a user interface framework that provides pre-defined and customizable React components for faster and easy web development. The Material-UI components are based on top of Material Design by Google. In this article let’s discuss the Display API in the Material-UI library.

MUI Display: The Display API provided by MUI allows us to control the visibility of the DOM elements on a need basis.

MUI Display props:

Import Name	Prop	CSS Property	Theme Key
displayPrint	displayPrint	display	none
displayRaw	display	display	none
overflow	overflow	overflow	none
textOverflow	textOverflow	text-overflow	none
visibility	visibility	visibility	none
whitespace	whitespace	white-space	none

Creating React Application And Installing Module:

Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:

npx create-react-app foldername

Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:

cd foldername

Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:

npm install @mui/material

Project Structure: It will look like the following.

Example 1: In this example, we will try to create a simple application that 2 DOM elements, one having display style as inline, and the other as block.

Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code:

App.js

import * as React from 'react';
import Box from '@mui/material/Box';

export default function BasicButtonGroup() {
    return (
        <div>
            <div
                className="head"
                style={{
                    width: "fit-content",
                    margin: "auto",
                }}
            >
                <h1
                    style={{
                        color: "green",
                    }}
                >
                    GeeksforGeeks
                </h1>
                <strong>React MUI display API</strong>
                <br />
                <br />
            </div>
            <div
                style={{
                    margin: "auto",
                }}
            >
                <Box sx={{ width: '100%', height: 100 }}>
                    <Box
                        component="div"
                        sx={{
                            display: 'inline',
                            p: 1,
                            m: 1,
                            bgcolor: '#101010',
                            color: 'grey.300',
                            border: '1px solid',
                        }}>inline</Box>
                    <Box
                        component="div"
                        sx={{
                            display: 'block',
                            p: 1,
                            m: 1,
                            bgcolor: '#101010',
                            color: 'grey.300',
                            border: '1px solid',
                        }}>block</Box>
                </Box>
            </div>
        </div>
    );
}

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:

npm start

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Example 2: In this example, let's change the visibility of a DOM element depending on the screen size. On small screen sizes, let's show the DOM element, and on bigger screen sizes, let's hide the element. Change your App.js like the one below.

App.js

import * as React from 'react';
import Box from '@mui/material/Box';

export default function BasicButtonGroup() {
    return (
        <div>
            <div
                className="head"
                style={{
                    width: "fit-content",
                    margin: "auto",
                }}
            >
                <h1
                    style={{
                        color: "green",
                    }}
                >
                    GeeksforGeeks
                </h1>
                <strong>React MUI display API</strong>
                <br />
                <br />
            </div>
            <div
                style={{
                    width: "fit-content",
                    margin: "auto",
                }}
            >
                <Box sx={{ width: '100%', height: 100 }}>
                    <Box
                        component="div"
                        sx={{
                            display: { xs: 'block', sm: 'none' },
                            p: 1,
                            m: 1,
                            bgcolor: '#101010',
                            color: 'grey.300',
                            border: '1px solid',
                        }}>block</Box>
                </Box>
            </div>
        </div>
    );
}