How to add linear-gradient color to material-ui Ch

Question

I want to add linear-gradient below color to Material-UI Chip as a background color. Is it possible?

linear-gradient(to right bottom, #430089, #82ffa1)

I am using Material-UI v0.18.7.

<Chip backgroundColor={indigo400} style={{width: 120}}>
     <Avatar size={32} color={white} backgroundColor={indigo900}>A</Avatar>
     This is a Chip
</Chip>

Answer 1

You can override any component in material-ui using classes. Instead of backgroundColor try this code.

//After imports statements
const style={
  chip:{
    background: 'linear-gradient(to right bottom, #430089, #82ffa1)',
  }
}
class Chips extends ...{
  render(){
const classes=this.props.classes;
  return(
    <Chip className={classes.chip}>
      <!--Content-->
     </Chip>
  );
  }
  }

Answer 2

Just set the background to the desired gradient in your styles:

<Chip style={{width: 120, background: 'linear-gradient(to right bottom, #430089, #82ffa1)'}}>
     <Avatar size={32} color={white} backgroundColor={indigo900}>A</Avatar>
     This is a Chip
</Chip>

Note that linear-gradient is a CSS function that returns an image, not a color. So, you have to set the background property (which takes an image) rather than the backgroundColor property (which takes just a color). Here's a quote from the Mozilla docs explaining this more thoroughly:

Because <gradient>s belong to the <image> data type, they can only be used where <image>s can be used. For this reason, linear-gradient() won't work on background-color and other properties that use the <color> data type.