How to use Box Component in Material UI ?

The Box component serves as a wrapper component for most of the CSS utility needs. Material UI for React has this component available for us and it is very easy to integrate. We can use the Box component in ReactJS using the following approach.

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 material-ui modules using the following command:

npm install @mui/material

Project Structure: It will look like the following.

Project Structure

Example 1: In this example, we will create a simple application that uses the Box component to display a static text. Please update the file App.js like below.

Filename: App.js: 

Javascript

import { Box } from '@mui/material';
import React from 'react'

const App = () => {

    return (
        <div style={{
            marginLeft: '40%',
            marginTop: '60px',
            width: '30%'
        }}>
            <Box color="white"
                bgcolor="palevioletred" p={1}>
                Greetings from GeeksforGeeks!
            </Box>
        </div>
    );
}

export default App

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:

Box Component Output

Example 2: In this example, we will create a simple application that displays a clickable button inside a Box component. Please update the App.js file like below.

Filename: App.js

Javascript

import React from 'react'
import { Box, Button } from '@mui/material';

const App = () => {
    return (
        <Box component="span"
            sx={{ p: 2, border: '1px dashed grey' }}>
            <Button style={{ color: 'green' }}>
                Geeksforgeeks
            </Button>
        </Box>
    );
}

export default App

Steps to run the application:

npm start

Output:

Reference: https://mui.com/material-ui/react-box/#main-content