Styling reacts material-ui tabs

Question

I just started to use reacts material-ui and I would like to customize some styles. For example changing tabs background color.

trying to use inlineStyle

like

<Tabs style={this.getStyles().tabs} > </Tabs>

    getStyles(){
        return {

          tabs: {
            backgroundColor: Colors.teal200
          },

          headline: {
            fontSize: '24px',
            lineHeight: '32px',
            paddingTop: '16px',
            marginBottom: '12px',
            letterSpacing: '0',
            fontWeight: Typography.fontWeightNormal,
            color: Typography.textDarkBlack,

          }
        }
    }

changes tabs content area but not the header.

here we have some color attributes how we use it? The Docs gives no examples in this case.

How do I proceed?

Answer 1

The way I do it is to override the <Tab> style (if you have a controlled Tabs)

render: function() {

  var styles = {
    default_tab:{
      color: Colors.grey500,
      backgroundColor: Colors.grey50,
      fontWeight: 400,
    },
    active_tab:{
      color: Colors.deepOrange700,
    }
  }

  styles.tab = []
  styles.tab[0] = styles.default_tab;
  styles.tab[1] = styles.default_tab;
  styles.tab[2] = styles.default_tab;
  styles.tab[this.state.slideIndex] = objectAssign({},   styles.tab[this.state.slideIndex], styles.active_tab);

  return (
    <Tabs>
      <Tab style={styles.tab[0]} label="Tab 0" value="0" />
      <Tab style={styles.tab[1]} label="Tab 1" value="1" />
      <Tab style={styles.tab[2]} label="Tab 2" value="2" />
    </Tabs>
  )

Though I think the better way is to have more props for Tabs/Tab so we can customize it.

Answer 2

So if anybody would face the same here is what I found

with ThemeManager we can change style outputs

for example

ThemeManager.setTheme(ThemeManager.types.DARK);

changing specific style variables with setPalette

componentWillMount() {
        ThemeManager.setPalette({
          accent1Color: Colors.indigo50,
            primary1Color: "#474B4E",
            primary2Color: "#2173B3",
            primary3Color: "#A9D2EB",
            accent1Color: "#ED3B3B",
            accent2Color: "#ED2B2B",
            accent3Color: "#F58C8C"
        });
     }