Simple Tree View - Customization

Learn how to customize the Simple Tree View component.

Basics

Custom icons

Use the collapseIcon slot, the expandIcon slot and the defaultEndIcon prop to customize the Tree View icons. The demo below shows how to add icons using both an existing icon library, such as Material Icons, and creating an icon from scratch using Material UI's SVG Icon component.

Custom toggle animations

Use the groupTransition slot on the TreeItem to pass a component that handles your animation.

The demo below is animated using Material UI's Collapse component together with the react-spring library.

Custom styling

Use treeItemClasses to target internal elements of the Tree Item component and change their styles.

Custom Tree Item

You can use the Tree Item's customization API to build new layouts and manage behaviors.

Learn more about the anatomy of the Tree Items and the customization utilities provided on the Tree Item Customization page.

Headless API

Use the useTreeItem2 hook to create your own component. The demo below shows how to add an avatar and custom typography elements.

Common examples

Connection border

Target the treeItemClasses.groupTransition class to add connection borders between the Tree View items.

Gmail clone

Google's Gmail side nav is potentially one of the web's most famous tree view components. The demo below shows how to replicate it.

The Gmail sidebar is one of the most well known examples of a tree view. The demo below shows how to recreate it with the Tree View component:

API

See the documentation below for a complete reference to all of the props and classes available to the components mentioned here.

• <SimpleTreeView />
• <TreeItem />
• <TreeItem2 />