Simple Tree View - Customization

Learn how to customize the simple version of the Tree View component.

Basics

Custom icons

Use the defaultCollapseIcon, defaultExpandIcon, and defaultEndIcon props 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 TransitionComponent prop 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.

Adding custom content

Use the ContentComponent prop and the useTreeItem hook to replace the Tree Item content with an entirely custom component. The demo below shows how to add an avatar and custom typography elements.

Common examples

Connection border

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

Limit expansion to icon container

The demo below shows how to trigger the expansion interaction just by clicking on the icon container instead of the whole Tree Item surface.

File explorer

The demo below shows many of the previous customization examples brought together to make the Tree View component look completely different than its default design.

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.

API

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

• <SimpleTreeView />
• <TreeItem />