How to make a Material UI react Button act as a react-router-dom Link?

35
votes

How can I make a Material UI react Button component act as a Link component from react-router-dom without losing it's original style? Like changing the route on click.

import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';

<Button variant="contained" color="primary">
    About Page
</Button>

To something like this, but maintaining the original Button style:

import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';

<Button variant="contained" color="primary">
    <Link to="/about">
        About Page
    </Link>
</Button>
2
javascriptreactjsreact-routermaterial-uireact-router-dom
Possible duplicate of Material-ui adding Link component from react-router – Tholle

2 Answers

83
votes

Okay, this is very easy, I don't know why it was not working with me:

Just do like this:

import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';

<Button component={Link} to="/about" variant="contained" color="primary">
  About Page
</Button>

You can find more details at https://next.material-ui.com/guides/routing/.

5
votes

You need to wrap the <Button /> inside the <Link /> component.

import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';

const ButtonWithLink = () => (
  <Link to="/about">
   <Button variant="contained" color="primary">
     About Page
   </Button>
  </Link>
)