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NavLink

Navigation link

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Polymorphic

Polymorphic component

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Package

@mantine/core

Usage

With icon
With right section
Disabled
3
With descriptionAdditional information
Active subtle
Active light
Active filled
import { Badge, NavLink } from '@mantine/core';
import { IconHome2, IconGauge, IconChevronRight, IconActivity, IconCircleOff } from '@tabler/icons-react';

function Demo() {
  return (
    <>
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="With icon"
        leftSection={<IconHome2 size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
      />
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="With right section"
        leftSection={<IconGauge size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        rightSection={
          <IconChevronRight size="0.8rem" stroke={1.5} className="mantine-rotate-rtl" />
        }
      />
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="Disabled"
        leftSection={<IconCircleOff size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        disabled
      />
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="With description"
        description="Additional information"
        leftSection={
          <Badge size="xs" color="red" circle>
            3
          </Badge>
        }
      />
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="Active subtle"
        leftSection={<IconActivity size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        rightSection={
          <IconChevronRight size="0.8rem" stroke={1.5} className="mantine-rotate-rtl" />
        }
        variant="subtle"
        active
      />
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="Active light"
        leftSection={<IconActivity size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        rightSection={
          <IconChevronRight size="0.8rem" stroke={1.5} className="mantine-rotate-rtl" />
        }
        active
      />
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="Active filled"
        leftSection={<IconActivity size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        rightSection={
          <IconChevronRight size="0.8rem" stroke={1.5} className="mantine-rotate-rtl" />
        }
        variant="filled"
        active
      />
    </>
  );
}

Active

Set active prop to add active styles to NavLink.

Note that if you're using a React Router or Remix NavLink inside renderRoot, the active styles will be based on the aria-current attribute that's set by React Router so you won't need to explicitly set the active prop.

You can customize active styles with color and variant props:

Color
Variant
import { useState } from 'react';
import { IconGauge, IconFingerprint, IconActivity, IconChevronRight } from '@tabler/icons-react';
import { Box, NavLink } from '@mantine/core';
const data = [
  { icon: IconGauge, label: 'Dashboard', description: 'Item with description' },
  {
    icon: IconFingerprint,
    label: 'Security',
    rightSection: <IconChevronRight size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />,
  },
  { icon: IconActivity, label: 'Activity' },
];

function Demo() {
  const [active, setActive] = useState(0);

  const items = data.map((item, index) => (
    <NavLink
      href="#required-for-focus"
      key={item.label}
      active={index === active}
      label={item.label}
      description={item.description}
      rightSection={item.rightSection}
      leftSection={<item.icon size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
      onClick={() => setActive(index)}

    />
  ));

  return <Box w={220}>{items}</Box>;
}

autoContrast

NavLink supports autoContrast prop and theme.autoContrast. If autoContrast is set either on NavLink or on theme, content color will be adjusted to have sufficient contrast with the value specified in color prop.

Note that autoContrast feature works only if you use color prop to change background color. autoContrast works only with filled variant.

Default
Auto contrast
import { NavLink } from '@mantine/core';

function Demo() {
  return (
    <>
      <NavLink color="lime.4" variant="filled" active label="Default" />
      <NavLink color="lime.4" variant="filled" active autoContrast label="Auto contrast" />
    </>
  );
}

Nested NavLinks

To create nested links put NavLink as children of another NavLink:

First parent link
Second parent link
First child link
Second child link
Third child link
import { NavLink } from '@mantine/core';
import { IconGauge, IconFingerprint } from '@tabler/icons-react';

function Demo() {
  return (
    <>
      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="First parent link"
        leftSection={<IconGauge size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        childrenOffset={28}
      >
        <NavLink href="#required-for-focus" label="First child link" />
        <NavLink label="Second child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
        <NavLink label="Nested parent link" childrenOffset={28} href="#required-for-focus">
          <NavLink label="First child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
          <NavLink label="Second child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
          <NavLink label="Third child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
        </NavLink>
      </NavLink>

      <NavLink
        href="#required-for-focus"
        label="Second parent link"
        leftSection={<IconFingerprint size="1rem" stroke={1.5} />}
        childrenOffset={28}
        defaultOpened
      >
        <NavLink label="First child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
        <NavLink label="Second child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
        <NavLink label="Third child link" href="#required-for-focus" />
      </NavLink>
    </>
  );
}

Polymorphic component

NavLink is a polymorphic component – its default root element is a, but it can be changed to any other element or component with component prop:

import { NavLink } from '@mantine/core';

function Demo() {
  return <NavLink component="button" />;
}

You can also use components in component prop, for example, Next.js Link:

import Link from 'next/link';
import { NavLink } from '@mantine/core';

function Demo() {
  return <NavLink component={Link} href="/" />;
}

Polymorphic components with TypeScript

Note that polymorphic components props types are different from regular components – they do not extend HTML element props of the default element. For example, NavLinkProps does not extend React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef'<'div'>' although a is the default element.

If you want to create a wrapper for a polymorphic component that is not polymorphic (does not support component prop), then your component props interface should extend HTML element props, for example: 

import type { NavLinkProps, ElementProps } from '@mantine/core';

interface MyNavLinkProps extends NavLinkProps,
  ElementProps<'button', keyof NavLinkProps> {}

If you want your component to remain polymorphic after wrapping, use createPolymorphicComponent function described in this guide.

Get element ref

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { NavLink } from '@mantine/core';

function Demo() {
  const ref = useRef<HTMLAnchorElement>(null);
  return <NavLink ref={ref} />;
}

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