Custom layout

The Date and Time Pickers let you reorganize the layout

Default layout structure

By default, pickers are made of 4 sub elements present in the following order:

• The toolbar displaying the selected date. Can be enforced with showToolbar prop.
• The content displaying the current view. Can be a calendar, or a clock.
• The tabs allowing to switch between day and time views in Date Time Pickers.
• The action bar allowing some interactions. Can be added with componentsProps.actionBar prop.

By default the content and tabs are wrapped together in a contentWrapper to simplify the layout.

You can customize those components individually by using components and componentsProps.

Orientation

Toggling layout can be achieved by changing orientation prop value between 'portrait' or 'landscape'.

Here is a demonstration with the 3 main blocks outlined with color borders.

Layout structure

A <PickersLayoutRoot /> wraps all the subcomponents to provide the structure. By default it renders a div with display: grid. Such that all subcomponents are placed in a 3 by 3 CSS grid.

<PickersLayoutRoot>
  {toolbar}
  <PickersLayoutContentWrapper>
    {tabs}
    {content}
  </PickersLayoutContentWrapper>
  {actionBar}
</PickersLayoutRoot>

CSS customization

To move an element, you can override its position in the layout with gridColumn and gridRow properties.

In the next example, the action bar is replaced by a list and then placed on the left side of the content. It's achieved by applying the { gridColumn: 1, gridRow: 2 } style.

DOM customization

It's important to note that by modifying the layout with CSS, the new positions can lead to inconsistencies between the visual render and the DOM structure. In the previous demonstration, the tab order is broken because the action bar appears before the calendar, whereas in the DOM the action bar is still after.

To modify the DOM structure, you can create a custom Layout wrapper. Use the usePickerLayout hook to get the subcomponents React nodes. Then you can fully customize the DOM structure.

import {
  usePickerLayout,
  PickersLayoutRoot,
  pickersLayoutClasses,
  PickersLayoutContentWrapper,
} from '@mui/x-date-pickers/PickersLayout';

const MyCustomLayout = (props) => {
  const { toolbar, tabs, content, actionBar } = usePickerLayout(props);

  // Put the action bar before the content
  return (
    <PickersLayoutRoot className={pickersLayoutClasses.root} ownerState={props}>
      {toolbar}
      {actionBar}
      <PickersLayoutContentWrapper className={pickersLayoutClasses.contentWrapper}>
        {tabs}
        {content}
      </PickersLayoutContentWrapper>
    </PickersLayoutRoot>
  );
};

Here is the complete example with a fix for the tabulation order and an external element added to the layout. Notice the use of pickersLayoutClasses, PickersLayoutRoot, and PickersLayoutContentWrapper to avoid rewriting the default CSS.

API

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

• <PickersActionBar />
• <PickersLayout />