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Spacing

Use the theme.spacing() helper to create consistent spacing between the elements of your UI.

Material-UI uses a recommended 8px scaling factor by default.

const theme = createMuiTheme();

theme.spacing(2) // = 8 * 2

Custom spacing

You can change the spacing transformation by providing:

  • a number
const theme = createMuiTheme({
  spacing: 4,
});

theme.spacing(2) // = 4 * 2
  • a function
const theme = createMuiTheme({
  spacing: factor => `${0.25 * factor}rem`, // (Bootstrap strategy)
});

theme.spacing(2); // = 0.25 * 2rem = 0.5rem = 8px
  • an array
const theme = createMuiTheme({
  spacing: factor => [0, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64][factor],
});

theme.spacing(2); // = 8

Multiple arity

The theme.spacing() helper accepts up to 4 arguments. You can use the arguments to reduce the boilerplate. Instead of doing:

padding: `${theme.spacing(1)}px ${theme.spacing(2)}px`, // '8px 16px'

you can do:

padding: theme.spacing(1, 2), // '8px 16px'