In Material-ui when do we use Input vs. Textfield for building a form?
Maybe this is just a basic question, but so far have not found any reasonable explanation. I am a beginner in react and using material-ui very recently. I am not very clear on when to use an Input vs. Textfield for building a form?
Looking at documentation, it feels like TextField is a superset of what Input can do, but not sure. Material-ui site uses examples for text field and input both, without stating benefits of one over the other and any use cases.
Please suggest.
Answer
For most use cases, you should use TextField rather than the lower-level components that it delegates to (such as Input).
The relevant part of the documentation is here: https://material-ui.com/demos/text-fields/#components.
Particularly this line:
TextField is composed of smaller components ( FormControl, Input, FilledInput, InputLabel, OutlinedInput, and FormHelperText ) that you can leverage directly to significantly customize your form inputs.
The main reason to use these lower-level components is if you need to customize your form input in some way that isn't supported using TextField.