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React Components

You're reading from   React Components Explore the power of React components for cutting-edge web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785889288
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adding styles to components

There are a number of ways we could improve the appearance of our components. Let's take the PageView component, for example. What would make it better? Perhaps if we increased the font size and used a sans serif font, the titles would be clearer to read. Perhaps we could increase the margin around each page.

There are a few different ways to style our components. The first is by adding styles inline to the render method in PageView:

render() {
    var rowStyle = this.props.rowStyle || {
        "fontSize": "18px",
        "fontFamily": "Helvetica"
    };

    var labelStyle = this.props.labelStyle || {
        "whiteSpace": "nowrap"
    };

    var buttonStyle = this.props.buttonStyle || {
        "margin": "0 0 0 10px",
        "verticalAlign": "middle",
    };

    return <div style={rowStyle}>
        <label style={labelStyle}>
            {this...
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