Usage with Emotion

Prior to version 7.0 Mantine used Emotion as a styling solution. It was replaced with CSS modules in version 7.0, but you can still use Emotion with Mantine if you prefer it over CSS modules.

Note that createStyles function, sx and styles prop work different from the same features in version 6.x. If you are planning to upgrade from version 6.x to 7.x, follow the migration guide.

@mantine/emotion package is compatible with @mantine/core 7.9.0 and higher. Before installing, make sure that you are using the latest version of all @mantine/* packages.

Caveats and support

Emotion is a runtime CSS-in-JS library – styles are generated and injected into the DOM at runtime. This approach has some limitations:

Limited server-side rendering support – modern frameworks like Next.js with app router do not fully support emotion or require additional configuration.
Runtime overhead – styles are generated and injected at runtime, which can lead to performance issues on pages with a lot of components.
Additional bundle size – your bundle will include @emotion/react (21.2kB minified), @mantine/emotion (~2kb minified) and all styles that you use in your components.

@mantine/emotion package can be used with the following frameworks:

Vite and CRA with basic setup
Next.js with pages router with additional setup for server side rendering provided by the package
Next.js with app router with additional setup for server side rendering provided by Emotion
Any other framework that does not require server-side rendering with basic setup

There is no official support (the package probably can be used but it's not tested and documentation is not provided) for:

Remix
Gatsby
Redwood
Any other framework that has server-side rendering

Note that Emotion is not recommended for new projects, if you are starting a new project with Mantine, consider using CSS modules instead.

Usage with Vite

View example repository with full setup

Install dependencies:

yarn add @mantine/emotion @emotion/react @emotion/cache @emotion/serialize @emotion/utils

Create emotion.d.ts file in src directory to add types support for sx and styles props:

import '@mantine/core';

import type { EmotionStyles, EmotionSx } from '@mantine/emotion';

declare module '@mantine/core' {
  export interface BoxProps {
    sx?: EmotionSx;
    styles?: EmotionStyles;
  }
}

Wrap your application with MantineEmotionProvider and add emotionTransform to MantineProvider:

import '@mantine/core/styles.css';

import { MantineProvider } from '@mantine/core';
import {
  emotionTransform,
  MantineEmotionProvider,
} from '@mantine/emotion';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <MantineProvider stylesTransform={emotionTransform}>
      <MantineEmotionProvider>App</MantineEmotionProvider>
    </MantineProvider>
  );
}

Done! You can now use sx, styles props and createStyles in your application:

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

function Demo() {
  return (
    <Box
      sx={(theme, u) => ({
        padding: 40,

        [u.light]: {
          backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[0],
          color: theme.colors.blue[9],

          '&:hover': {
            backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[1],
          },
        },
      })}
    >
      Box with emotion sx prop
    </Box>
  );
}

Usage with Next.js pages router

View example repository with full setup

Install dependencies:

yarn add @mantine/emotion @emotion/react @emotion/cache @emotion/serialize @emotion/utils @emotion/server

Create emotion folder with cache.ts and emotion.d.ts files.

cache.ts file:

import createCache from '@emotion/cache';

export const emotionCache = createCache({ key: 'css' });

emotion.d.ts file:

import '@mantine/core';

import type { EmotionStyles, EmotionSx } from '@mantine/emotion';

declare module '@mantine/core' {
  export interface BoxProps {
    sx?: EmotionSx;
    styles?: EmotionStyles;
  }
}

Add the following content to pages/_document.tsx file:

import NextDocument, {
  Head,
  Html,
  Main,
  NextScript,
} from 'next/document';
import createEmotionServer from '@emotion/server/create-instance';
import { ColorSchemeScript } from '@mantine/core';
import { createGetInitialProps } from '@mantine/emotion';
// Import cache created in the previous step
import { emotionCache } from '../emotion/cache';

export default function Document() {
  return (
    <Html lang="en">
      <Head>
        <ColorSchemeScript />
      </Head>
      <body>
        <Main />
        <NextScript />
      </body>
    </Html>
  );
}

const stylesServer = createEmotionServer(emotionCache);

Document.getInitialProps = createGetInitialProps(
  NextDocument,
  stylesServer
);

Add MantineEmotionProvider and emotionTransform to pages/_app.tsx file:

import '@mantine/core/styles.css';

import Head from 'next/head';
import { MantineProvider } from '@mantine/core';
import {
  emotionTransform,
  MantineEmotionProvider,
} from '@mantine/emotion';
import { emotionCache } from '../emotion/cache';

export default function App({ Component, pageProps }: any) {
  return (
    <MantineEmotionProvider cache={emotionCache}>
      <MantineProvider stylesTransform={emotionTransform}>
        <Head>
          <title>Mantine Template</title>
          <meta
            name="viewport"
            content="minimum-scale=1, initial-scale=1, width=device-width, user-scalable=no"
          />
          <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.svg" />
        </Head>
        <Component {...pageProps} />
      </MantineProvider>
    </MantineEmotionProvider>
  );
}

Done! You can now use sx, styles props and createStyles in your application:

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

function Demo() {
  return (
    <Box
      sx={(theme, u) => ({
        padding: 40,

        [u.light]: {
          backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[0],
          color: theme.colors.blue[9],

          '&:hover': {
            backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[1],
          },
        },
      })}
    >
      Box with emotion sx prop
    </Box>
  );
}

Usage with Next.js app router

View example repository with full setup

Install dependencies:

yarn add @mantine/emotion @emotion/react @emotion/cache @emotion/serialize @emotion/utils @emotion/server

Create app/emotion.d.ts file with the following content:

import '@mantine/core';

import type { EmotionStyles, EmotionSx } from '@mantine/emotion';

declare module '@mantine/core' {
  export interface BoxProps {
    sx?: EmotionSx;
    styles?: EmotionStyles;
  }
}

Create app/EmotionRootStyleRegistry.tsx file with the following content:

'use client';

import { useState } from 'react';
import { useServerInsertedHTML } from 'next/navigation';
import createCache from '@emotion/cache';
import { CacheProvider } from '@emotion/react';

export function RootStyleRegistry({
  children,
}: {
  children: JSX.Element;
}) {
  const [{ cache, flush }] = useState(() => {
    const cache = createCache({ key: 'my' });
    cache.compat = true;
    const prevInsert = cache.insert;
    let inserted: string[] = [];
    cache.insert = (...args) => {
      const serialized = args[1];
      if (cache.inserted[serialized.name] === undefined) {
        inserted.push(serialized.name);
      }
      return prevInsert(...args);
    };
    const flush = () => {
      const prevInserted = inserted;
      inserted = [];
      return prevInserted;
    };
    return { cache, flush };
  });

  useServerInsertedHTML(() => {
    const names = flush();
    if (names.length === 0) return null;
    let styles = '';
    for (const name of names) {
      styles += cache.inserted[name];
    }
    return (
      <style
        data-emotion={`${cache.key} ${names.join(' ')}`}
        dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
          __html: styles,
        }}
      />
    );
  });

  return <CacheProvider value={cache}>{children}</CacheProvider>;
}

Add RootStyleRegistry, MantineEmotionProvider and emotionTransform to app/layout.tsx. It should look something like this:

import '@mantine/core/styles.css';

import { ColorSchemeScript, MantineProvider } from '@mantine/core';
import {
  emotionTransform,
  MantineEmotionProvider,
} from '@mantine/emotion';
import { RootStyleRegistry } from './EmotionRootStyleRegistry';

export const metadata = {
  title: 'Mantine Next.js template',
  description: 'I am using Mantine with Next.js!',
};

export default function RootLayout({ children }: { children: any }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <head>
        <ColorSchemeScript />
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.svg" />
        <meta
          name="viewport"
          content="minimum-scale=1, initial-scale=1, width=device-width, user-scalable=no"
        />
      </head>
      <body>
        <RootStyleRegistry>
          <MantineEmotionProvider>
            <MantineProvider stylesTransform={emotionTransform}>
              {children}
            </MantineProvider>
          </MantineEmotionProvider>
        </RootStyleRegistry>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Done! You can now use sx, styles props and createStyles in your application. Note that 'use client' is required in most components that use sx, styles or createStyles:

'use client';

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

export default function HomePage() {
  return (
    <Box
      sx={(theme, u) => ({
        padding: 40,

        [u.light]: {
          backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[0],
          color: theme.colors.blue[9],

          '&:hover': {
            backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[1],
          },
        },
      })}
    >
      Box with emotion sx prop
    </Box>
  );
}

With the setup above you can use sx prop in all Mantine components. sx prop allows adding styles to the root element of the component. It accepts either a styles object or a function that receives theme, utilities and returns styles object:

import { Box, Button } from '@mantine/core';

function Demo() {
  return (
    <>
      <Box
        sx={{
          padding: 40,
          '&:hover': { padding: 80 },
        }}
      >
        Box with object sx
      </Box>

      <Button
        sx={(theme, u) => ({
          padding: 10,

          [u.light]: {
            backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[0],
            color: theme.colors.blue[9],
            '&:hover': {
              backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[1],
            },
          },

          [u.dark]: {
            backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[9],
            color: theme.colors.blue[0],
            '&:hover': {
              backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[8],
            },
          },
        })}
      >
        Button with function sx
      </Button>
    </>
  );
}

styles prop

styles prop works similar to sx prop, but it allows adding styles to all nested elements of the components that are specified in the Styles API table. styles prop accepts either an object of styles objects or a function that receives theme, component props, utilities and returns styles object:

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

function Demo() {
  return (
    <Button
      color="red"
      styles={(theme, { color }, u) => ({
        root: {
          padding: 10,
          backgroundColor: theme.colors[color || 'blue'][7],
          color: theme.white,

          '&:hover': {
            backgroundColor: theme.colors[color || 'blue'][8],
          },
        },

        label: {
          [u.light]: {
            border: `1px solid ${theme.black}`,
          },
          [u.dark]: {
            border: `1px solid ${theme.white}`,
          },
        },
      })}
    >
      Button with styles prop
    </Button>
  );
}

styles in theme

You can add styles to Mantine components with Styles API using Emotion with styles prop. Note that to avoid types collisions, you should not use Component.extend method and just pass component configuration object directly.

import { createTheme, MantineTheme, TextProps } from '@mantine/core';
import { EmotionHelpers } from '@mantine/emotion';

export const theme = createTheme({
  components: {
    Text: {
      styles: (
        theme: MantineTheme,
        _props: TextProps,
        u: EmotionHelpers
      ) => ({
        root: {
          [u.light]: {
            color: theme.colors.blue[7],
          },
        },
      }),
    },
  },
});

createStyles

createStyles function accepts a function to generate styles with Emotion. The function receives 3 arguments that will be described more detailed in the following demos:

theme – Mantine theme object
params – object with additional parameters that can be passed to the function in useStyles hook
u - object with utilities to generate selectors

createStyles function returns useStyles hook that should be called in the component that uses given styles:

createStyles demo

import { createStyles } from '@mantine/emotion';
import { rem } from '@mantine/core';

const useStyles = createStyles((theme, _, u) => ({
  wrapper: {
    maxWidth: rem(400),
    width: '100%',
    height: rem(180),
    display: 'flex',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    marginLeft: 'auto',
    marginRight: 'auto',
    borderRadius: theme.radius.sm,

    // Use light and dark selectors to change styles based on color scheme
    [u.light]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.gray[1],
    },

    [u.dark]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.dark[5],
    },

    // Reference theme.breakpoints in smallerThan and largerThan functions
    [u.smallerThan('sm')]: {
      // Child reference in nested selectors via ref
      [`& .${u.ref('child')}`]: {
        fontSize: theme.fontSizes.xs,
      },
    },
  },

  child: {
    // Assign selector to a ref to reference it in other styles
    ref: u.ref('child'),
    padding: theme.spacing.md,
    borderRadius: theme.radius.sm,
    boxShadow: theme.shadows.md,

    [u.light]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.white,
      color: theme.black,
    },

    [u.dark]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.dark[8],
      color: theme.white,
    },
  },
}));

function Demo() {
  const { classes } = useStyles();

  return (
    <div className={classes.wrapper}>
      <div className={classes.child}>createStyles demo</div>
    </div>
  );
}

Pseudo-classes

You can add pseudo-classes the same way as in any css-preprocessor like Sass:

import { createStyles } from '@mantine/emotion';

const useStyles = createStyles((theme) => ({
  button: {
    color: theme.white,
    backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[6],
    border: 0,
    borderRadius: theme.radius.md,
    padding: `${theme.spacing.sm} ${theme.spacing.lg}`,
    cursor: 'pointer',
    margin: theme.spacing.md,

    // Use pseudo-classes just like you would in Sass
    '&:hover': {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[9],
    },

    '&:not(:first-of-type)': {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.violet[6],

      // pseudo-classes can be nested
      '&:hover': {
        backgroundColor: theme.colors.violet[9],
      },
    },
  },
}));

function Demo() {
  const { classes } = useStyles();
  return (
    <div>
      <button type="button" className={classes.button}>
        First
      </button>
      <button type="button" className={classes.button}>
        Second
      </button>
      <button type="button" className={classes.button}>
        Third
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Styles parameters

You can receive any amount of parameters as second argument of createStyles function, latter you will need to pass those parameters as argument to useStyles hook:

import { createStyles } from '@mantine/emotion';

interface ButtonProps {
  color: 'blue' | 'violet';
  radius: number;
}

const useStyles = createStyles((theme, { color, radius }: ButtonProps) => ({
  button: {
    color: theme.white,
    backgroundColor: theme.colors[color][6],
    borderRadius: radius,
    padding: theme.spacing.md,
    margin: theme.spacing.md,
    border: 0,
    cursor: 'pointer',
  },
}));

function Button({ color, radius }: ButtonProps) {
  const { classes } = useStyles({ color, radius });
  return (
    <button type="button" className={classes.button}>
      {color} button with {radius} radius
    </button>
  );
}

function Demo() {
  return (
    <>
      <Button color="blue" radius={5} />
      <Button color="violet" radius={50} />
    </>
  );
}

Composition and nested selectors

Since createStyles produces scoped class names you will need to create a reference to selector in order to get static selector. Use u.ref function to assign static selectors:

import { createStyles } from '@mantine/emotion';

const useStyles = createStyles((theme, _, u) => ({
  button: {
    // assign reference to selector
    ref: u.ref('button'),

    // and add any other properties
    backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[6],
    color: theme.white,
    padding: `${theme.spacing.sm} ${theme.spacing.lg}`,
    borderRadius: theme.radius.md,
    cursor: 'pointer',
    border: 0,
  },

  container: {
    display: 'flex',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    padding: theme.spacing.xl,

    [u.light]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.gray[1],
    },

    [u.dark]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.dark[8],
    },

    // reference button with nested selector
    [`&:hover .${u.ref('button')}`]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.violet[6],
    },
  },
}));

function Demo() {
  const { classes } = useStyles();

  return (
    <div className={classes.container}>
      <button className={classes.button} type="button">
        Hover container to change button color
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Classes merging (cx function)

To merge class names use cx function, it has the same api as clsx package.

!important: Do not use external libraries like classnames or clsx with class names created with createStyles function as it will produce styles collisions.

import { useState } from 'react';
import { createStyles } from '@mantine/emotion';

const useStyles = createStyles((theme, _, u) => ({
  button: {
    border: 0,
    borderRadius: theme.radius.md,
    padding: theme.spacing.md,
    cursor: 'pointer',
    margin: theme.spacing.md,
    lineHeight: 1,

    [u.light]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.gray[1],
    },

    [u.dark]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.dark[5],
    },
  },

  active: {
    color: theme.white,

    [u.light]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[6],
    },
    [u.dark]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[8],
    },
  },
}));

function Demo() {
  const [active, setActive] = useState(0);
  const { classes, cx } = useStyles();

  return (
    <div>
      <button
        className={cx(classes.button, { [classes.active]: active === 0 })}
        onClick={() => setActive(0)}
        type="button"
      >
        First
      </button>
      <button
        className={cx(classes.button, { [classes.active]: active === 1 })}
        onClick={() => setActive(1)}
        type="button"
      >
        Second
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Media queries

You can use nested media queries like in Sass. Within query body you can use theme.breakpoints defined with MantineProvider or just static values:

import { em, getBreakpointValue, rem } from '@mantine/core';
import { createStyles } from '@mantine/emotion';

const useStyles = createStyles((theme, _, u) => ({
  container: {
    height: rem(100),
    backgroundColor: theme.colors.blue[6],

    // Media query with value from theme
    [`@media (max-width: ${em(getBreakpointValue(theme.breakpoints.xl, theme.breakpoints) - 1)})`]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.pink[6],
    },

    // Simplify media query writing with theme functions
    [u.smallerThan('lg')]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.yellow[6],
    },

    // Static media query
    [`@media (max-width: ${em(800)})`]: {
      backgroundColor: theme.colors.orange[6],
    },
  },
}));

function Demo() {
  const { classes } = useStyles();
  return <div className={classes.container} />;
}

Keyframes

Keyframes demo

import { createStyles, keyframes } from '@mantine/emotion';
import { rem } from '@mantine/core';

// Export animation to reuse it in other components
export const bounce = keyframes({
  'from, 20%, 53%, 80%, to': { transform: 'translate3d(0, 0, 0)' },
  '40%, 43%': { transform: 'translate3d(0, -30px, 0)' },
  '70%': { transform: 'translate3d(0, -15px, 0)' },
  '90%': { transform: 'translate3d(0, -4px, 0)' },
});

const useStyles = createStyles((theme) => ({
  container: {
    textAlign: 'center',
    padding: theme.spacing.xl,
    animation: `${bounce} 3s ease-in-out infinite`,
  },
}));

function Demo() {
  const { classes } = useStyles();
  return <div className={classes.container}>Keyframes demo</div>;
}

Utilities

sx, styles and createStyles callback functions receive u object with utilities to generate selectors. u object contains the following properties:

const u = {
  light: '[data-mantine-color-scheme="light"] &',
  dark: '[data-mantine-color-scheme="dark"] &',
  rtl: '[dir="rtl"] &',
  ltr: '[dir="ltr"] &',
  notRtl: '[dir="ltr"] &',
  notLtr: '[dir="rtl"] &',
  ref: getStylesRef,
  smallerThan: (breakpoint: MantineBreakpoint | number) =>
    `@media (max-width: ${em(getBreakpointValue(theme, breakpoint) - 0.1)})`,
  largerThan: (breakpoint: MantineBreakpoint | number) =>
    `@media (min-width: ${em(getBreakpointValue(theme, breakpoint))})`,
};

All utilities except ref can be used as selectors in styles object:

const styles = {
  root: {
    [u.dark]: { color: 'white' },
    [u.rtl]: { padding: 10 },
    [u.smallerThan('md')]: { lineHeight: 20 },
  },
};

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