<NavLink>

Wraps <Link> with additional props for styling active and pending states.

import { NavLink } from "@remix-run/react";

<NavLink
  to="/messages"
  className={({ isActive, isPending }) =>
    isPending ? "pending" : isActive ? "active" : ""
  }
>
  Messages
</NavLink>;

Automatic Attributes

.active

An active class is added to a <NavLink> component when it is active, so you can use CSS to style it.

<NavLink to="/messages" />

a.active {
  color: red;
}

aria-current

When a NavLink is active it will automatically apply <a aria-current="page"> to the underlying anchor tag. See aria_current on MDN.

Props

className callback

Calls back with the active and pending states to allow customizing the class names applied.

<NavLink
  to="/messages"
  className={({ isActive, isPending }) =>
    isPending ? "pending" : isActive ? "active" : ""
  }
>
  Messages
</NavLink>

style callback

Calls back with the active and pending states to allow customizing the styles applied.

<NavLink
  to="/messages"
  style={({ isActive, isPending }) => {
    return {
      fontWeight: isActive ? "bold" : "",
      color: isPending ? "red" : "black",
    };
  }}
>
  Messages
</NavLink>

children callback

Calls back with the active and pending states to allow customizing the content of the <NavLink>.

<NavLink to="/tasks">
  {({ isActive, isPending }) => (
    <span className={isActive ? "active" : ""}>Tasks</span>
  )}
</NavLink>

end

The end prop changes the matching logic for the active and pending states to only match to the "end" of the NavLinks's to path. If the URL is longer than to, it will no longer be considered active.

<NavLink to="/"> is an exceptional case because every URL matches /. To avoid this matching every single route by default, it effectively ignores the end prop and only matches when you're at the root route.

caseSensitive

Adding the caseSensitive prop changes the matching logic to make it case-sensitive.

<Link> props

All other props of <Link> are supported.