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Styling a React Application

Explore how to style React applications by importing CSS files and using the className attribute. Understand the advantages of styled-components for encapsulating styles within components, preventing unintended side effects. This lesson helps you effectively apply styles in React to build maintainable and visually consistent interfaces.

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Importing a CSS file

React components can be styled by creating a CSS file and importing it into our component. Take a look at the code below:

import React from "react";

const Info = () => {
    return (
         <div>
            <h1>Educative is awesome</h1>
          </div>
        );
}

export default Info
React component

The widget above consists of two React components named App and Info. The App component is the parent component that’s rendered by ReactDOM. Take a look at the index.js file, and notice that a style.css file is required and imported for use in the React app. This stylesheet is global to our React app because it ...