Apply styled component style to a third party components

Question

I am learning react and I started by using styled-components and react-router dom

But I face difficulties apply my custom styled component to an existing component not created by me.

Here is the code:

import React from "react";
import { NavLink } from "react-router-dom";
import styled from "styled-components";

const NavStyle = styled.div`
  color: red;
  margin: 10px;
`;

const Navigation = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <NavStyle>
        <NavLink to="/">Home</NavLink>
      </NavStyle>
      <NavLink to="/about">About</NavLink>
      <NavLink to="/contact">Contact</NavLink>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Navigation;

The problem is that color: red is not applied, but margin: 10px is applied in the view. Why so?

Answer 1

You can simplify styles. No need to wrap a link with another component. Simple use styled-components extending with styled() function:

import React from "react";
import { NavLink } from "react-router-dom";
import styled from "styled-components";

const StyledNavLink = styled(NavLink)`
  color: red;
  margin: 10px;
`;

const Navigation = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <StyledNavLink to="/">Home</StyledNavLink>
      <StyledNavLink to="/about">About</StyledNavLink>
      <StyledNavLink to="/contact">Contact</StyledNavLink>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Navigation;