Children Props

The children prop is a special prop that allows you to pass components or elements as data to other components. It's essential for creating wrapper and layout components.

What is children?

In JSX, anything between opening and closing tags becomes the children prop:

Simple Wrapper Components

Children is perfect for wrapper components that add styling or behavior:

Layout Components

Children enable flexible layout patterns:

Validating Children

You can check what type of children you received:

Exercise: Card Wrapper

Exercise: Modal Component

Exercise: List Wrapper

Key Takeaways

1. children is special - Content between JSX tags becomes children prop
2. Wrapper components - Use children for reusable container patterns
3. Layout components - Combine children with other props for layouts
4. Flexible content - children can be any valid React content
5. Composition - children enables powerful component composition