How to style material-ui textfield

Question

I have been trying to work out how to style a material-ui TextField component.

<TextField
    id="email"
    label="Email"
    className={classes.textField}
    value={this.state.form_email}
    onChange={this.handle_change('form_email')}
    margin="normal"
/>

My classes are created as follows:

const styles = theme => ({
    textField: {
        width: '90%',
        marginLeft: 'auto',
        marginRight: 'auto',
        color: 'white',
        paddingBottom: 0,
        marginTop: 0,
        fontWeight: 500
    },
});

My problem is that I can not seem to get the colour of the text field to change to white. I seem to be able to apply styling to the overall text field (because the width styling works etc)... but I think the problem is that I am not applying the styles further down the chain and into the actual input.

I have tried to look at the other answers dealing with passing inputProps but have had no success.

Have tried everything to the best of my ability but think I need to ask if anyone knows what I am doing wrong.

What it currently looks like

Answer 1

You need to add the InputProps property to the TextField.

const styles = theme => ({
    textField: {
        width: '90%',
        marginLeft: 'auto',
        marginRight: 'auto',            
        paddingBottom: 0,
        marginTop: 0,
        fontWeight: 500
    },
    input: {
        color: 'white'
    }
});

JSX:

<TextField
    id="email"
    label="Email"
    className={classes.textField}
    value={this.state.form_email}
    onChange={this.handle_change('form_email')}
    margin="normal"
    InputProps={{
        className: classes.input,
    }}
/>

As an aside, you can also style the label or use an override as described here.