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Portal API

API reference docs for the React Portal component. Learn about the props, CSS, and other APIs of this exported module.

Demos

Import

import Portal from '@mui/material/Portal';
// or
import { Portal } from '@mui/material';

Learn about the difference by reading this guide on minimizing bundle size.



Portals provide a first-class way to render children into a DOM node that exists outside the DOM hierarchy of the parent component.

Props

NameTypeDefaultDescription
childrennode-

The children to render into the container.

containerHTML element
| func		-

An HTML element or function that returns one. The container will have the portal children appended to it.
You can also provide a callback, which is called in a React layout effect. This lets you set the container from a ref, and also makes server-side rendering possible.
By default, it uses the body of the top-level document object, so it's simply document.body most of the time.

disablePortalboolfalse

The children will be under the DOM hierarchy of the parent component.

The component cannot hold a ref.