Material UI Menu using routes

Question

I am toying with material-ui. I implemented LeftNav using routes, but I could not find a way to get IconMenu, or Menu working with links or routes. Anyone can point me to a good source / tutorial? The documentation falls short, and both components seem not to support 'menuItems' as property as LeftNav does.

Answer 1

another long overdue update:

containerElement prop is not supported anymore, use component prop instead.

Check out the document here.

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2016 December Edit: the linkButton prop is deprecated, you will get a warning:

Warning: Unknown props `linkButton` on <a> tag.

So simply remove the prop:

<MenuItem
  containerElement={<Link to="/profile" />}
  primaryText="Profile"
  leftIcon={
    <FontIcon className="material-icons">people</FontIcon>
  }
/>

Here's an Example Repo, and the Live Demo Here.

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Original answer:

Just wanted to point out that if you're using react-router, you might want to use <Link to="/some/page" /> rather than the <a> tag.

To do this, you need to use the containerElement prop

<MenuItem
  linkButton
  containerElement={<Link to="/profile" />}
  primaryText="Profile"
  leftIcon={
    <FontIcon className="material-icons">people</FontIcon>
  }
/>

(the ={true} can be omitted if you're only passing true, in other words, <MenuItem linkButton /> is same as <MenuItem linkButton={true} />)

The containerElement and linkButton props is actually documented in the buttons section, but you can use it in MenuItem as well.

Answer 2

Starting with Material-UI 1.0, the new syntax is:

<MenuItem
  component={Link}
  // the 'to' prop (and any other props not recognized by MenuItem itself)
  // will be passed down to the Link component
  to="/profile"
>
  Profile
</MenuItem>

(Note: this example doesn't include an icon. There is a new ListItemIcon component for that.)

Answer 3

You can set the linkButtton prop on MenuItem to generate a link, then also add an href.

<MenuItem linkButton={true} href="link/to/some/page" primaryText="Sample Link" />

Answer 4

None of the existing answers (of September 2018) worked for me with react 16.4.2 and react-router 4.2.2, so this was my solution:

<Link to='/notifications' style={{ textDecoration: 'none' }}>
   <MenuItem>Notifications</MenuItem>
</Link>

As you can see, the MenuItem component is surrounded by the Link component, and I added a style textDecoration: 'none' not to have the item underlined.