Ant Design allows you to customize our design tokens to satisfy UI diversity from business or brand requirements, including primary color, border radius, border color, etc.

In version 5.0, we provide a new way to customize themes. Different from the less and CSS variables of the 4.x version, with CSS-in-JS, the ability of theming has also been enhanced, including but not limited to:

1. Switching theme dynamically；
2. Multiple themes；
3. Customizing theme variables for some components；
4. ...

Basic Usage

In version 5.0 we call the smallest element that affects the theme Design Token. By modifying the Design Token, we can present various themes or components. You can pass theme to ConfigProvider to customize theme. After migrate to V5, theme of V5 will be applied by default.

Customize Design Token

By modifying token property of theme, we can modify Design Token globally. Some tokens will affect other tokens. We call these tokens Seed Token.

import { Button, ConfigProvider, Space } from 'antd';
import React from 'react';

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <ConfigProvider
    theme={{
      token: {
        // Seed Token
        colorPrimary: '#00b96b',
        borderRadius: 2,

        // Alias Token
        colorBgContainer: '#f6ffed',
      },
    }}
  >
    <Space>
      <Button type="primary">Primary</Button>
      <Button>Default</Button>
    </Space>
  </ConfigProvider>
);

export default App;

Use Preset Algorithms

Themes with different styles can be quickly generated by modifying algorithm. Ant Design 5.0 provides three sets of preset algorithms by default:

• default algorithm theme.defaultAlgorithm
• dark algorithm theme.darkAlgorithm
• compact algorithm theme.compactAlgorithm

You can switch algorithms by modifying the algorithm property of theme in ConfigProvider.

import React from 'react';
import { Button, ConfigProvider, Input, Space, theme } from 'antd';

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <ConfigProvider
    theme={{
      // 1. Use dark algorithm
      algorithm: theme.darkAlgorithm,

      // 2. Combine dark algorithm and compact algorithm
      // algorithm: [theme.darkAlgorithm, theme.compactAlgorithm],
    }}
  >
    <Space>
      <Input placeholder="Please Input" />
      <Button type="primary">Submit</Button>
    </Space>
  </ConfigProvider>
);

export default App;

Customize Component Token

In addition to Design Token, each component will also have its own Component Token to achieve style customization capabilities for components, and different components will not affect each other. Similarly, other Design Token of components can also be overridden in this way.

import React from 'react';
import { ConfigProvider, Button, Space, Input, Divider } from 'antd';

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <>
    <ConfigProvider
      theme={{
        components: {
          Button: {
            colorPrimary: '#00b96b',
            algorithm: true, // Enable algorithm
          },
          Input: {
            colorPrimary: '#eb2f96',
            algorithm: true, // Enable algorithm
          }
        },
      }}
    >
      <Space>
        <div style={{ fontSize: 14 }}>Enable algorithm: </div>
        <Input placeholder="Please Input" />
        <Button type="primary">Submit</Button>
      </Space>
    </ConfigProvider>
    <Divider />
    <ConfigProvider
      theme={{
        components: {
          Button: {
            colorPrimary: '#00b96b',
          },
          Input: {
            colorPrimary: '#eb2f96',
          }
        },
      }}
    >
      <Space>
        <div style={{ fontSize: 14 }}>Disable algorithm: </div>
        <Input placeholder="Please Input" />
        <Button type="primary">Submit</Button>
      </Space>
    </ConfigProvider>
  </>
);

export default App;

Disable Motion

antd has built-in interaction animations to make enterprise-level pages more detailed. In some extreme scenarios, it may affect the performance of page interaction. If you need to turn off the animation, try setting motion of token to false:

import React from 'react';
import { Checkbox, Col, ConfigProvider, Flex, Radio, Row, Switch } from 'antd';

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const [checked, setChecked] = React.useState<boolean>(false);
  const timerRef = React.useRef<ReturnType<typeof setInterval>>();
  React.useEffect(() => {
    timerRef.current = setInterval(() => {
      setChecked((prev) => !prev);
    }, 500);
    return () => {
      if (timerRef.current) {
        clearInterval(timerRef.current);
      }
    };
  }, []);

  const nodes = (
    <Flex gap="small">
      <Checkbox checked={checked}>Checkbox</Checkbox>
      <Radio checked={checked}>Radio</Radio>
      <Switch checked={checked} />
    </Flex>
  );

  return (
    <Row gutter={[24, 24]}>
      <Col span={24}>{nodes}</Col>
      <Col span={24}>
        <ConfigProvider theme={{ token: { motion: false } }}>{nodes}</ConfigProvider>
      </Col>
    </Row>
  );
};

export default App;

Advanced

Switch Themes Dynamically

In v5, dynamically switching themes is very simple for users, you can dynamically switch themes at any time through the theme property of ConfigProvider without any additional configuration.

import { Button, ConfigProvider, Space, Input, ColorPicker, Divider } from 'antd';
import React from 'react';

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const [primary, setPrimary] = React.useState('#1677ff');

  return (
    <>
      <ColorPicker showText value={primary} onChange={(color) => setPrimary(color.toHexString())} />
      <Divider />
      <ConfigProvider
        theme={{
          token: {
            colorPrimary: primary,
          },
        }}
      >
        <Space>
          <Input placeholder="Please Input" />
          <Button type="primary">Submit</Button>
        </Space>
      </ConfigProvider>
    </>
  );
}

export default App;

Nested Theme

By nesting ConfigProvider you can apply local theme to some parts of your page. Design Tokens that have not been changed in the child theme will inherit the parent theme.

import React from 'react';
import { Button, ConfigProvider, Space } from 'antd';

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <ConfigProvider
    theme={{
      token: {
        colorPrimary: '#1677ff',
      },
    }}
  >
    <Space>
      <Button type="primary">Theme 1</Button>
      <ConfigProvider
        theme={{
          token: {
            colorPrimary: '#00b96b',
          },
        }}
      >
        <Button type="primary">Theme 2</Button>
      </ConfigProvider>
    </Space>
  </ConfigProvider>
);

export default App;

Consume Design Token

If you want to consume the Design Token under the current theme, we provide useToken hook to get Design Token.

import React from 'react';
import { Button, theme } from 'antd';

const { useToken } = theme;

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const { token } = useToken();

  return (
    <div
      style={{
        backgroundColor: token.colorPrimaryBg,
        padding: token.padding,
        borderRadius: token.borderRadius,
        color: token.colorPrimaryText,
        fontSize: token.fontSize,
      }}
    >
      Consume Design Token
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Static consume (e.g. less)

When you need token out of React life cycle, you can use static function to get them:

import { theme } from 'antd';

const { getDesignToken } = theme;

const globalToken = getDesignToken();

Same as ConfigProvider, getDesignToken could also accept a config object as theme:

import type { ThemeConfig } from 'antd';
import { theme } from 'antd';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';

const { getDesignToken, useToken } = theme;

const config: ThemeConfig = {
  token: {
    colorPrimary: '#1890ff',
  },
};

// By static function
const globalToken = getDesignToken(config);

// By hook
const App = () => {
  const { token } = useToken();
  return null;
};

// Example for rendering
createRoot(document.getElementById('#app')).render(
  <ConfigProvider theme={config}>
    <App />
  </ConfigProvider>,
);

If you want to use in preprocess style framework like less, use less-loader for injection:

{
  loader: "less-loader",
  options: {
    lessOptions: {
      modifyVars: mapToken,
    },
  },
}

Compatible package provide convert function to transform to v4 less variable. Read this for detail.

Theme editor

We provide tools to help users debug themes: Theme Editor

You can use this tool to freely modify Design Token to meet your theme expectations.

Design Token

In Design Token, we provide a three-layer structure that is more suitable for the design, and disassemble the Design Token into three parts: Seed Token, Map Token and Alias Token. These three groups of Tokens are not simple groupings, but a three-layer derivation relationship. Map Tokens are derived from Seed Tokens, and Alias Tokens are derived from Map Tokens. In most cases, using Seed Tokens is sufficient for custom themes. But if you need a higher degree of theme customization, you need to understand the life cycle of Design Token in antd.

Life of Design Token

Seed Token

Seed Token means the origin of all design intent. For example, we can change the theme color by changing colorPrimary, and the algorithm inside antd will automatically calculate and apply a series of corresponding colors according to the Seed Token:

const theme = {
  token: {
    colorPrimary: '#1890ff',
  },
};

Map Token

Map Token is a gradient variable derived from Seed. It is recommended to implement custom Map Token through theme.algorithm, which can ensure the gradient relationship between Map Tokens. It can also be overridden by theme.token to modify the value of some map tokens individually.

const theme = {
  token: {
    colorPrimaryBg: '#e6f7ff',
  },
};

Alias Token

Alias Token is used to control the style of some common components in batches, which is basically a Map Token alias, or a specially processed Map Token.

const theme = {
  token: {
    colorLink: '#1890ff',
  },
};

Algorithm

The basic algorithm is used to expand the Seed Token into a Map Token, such as calculating a gradient color palette from a basic color, or calculating rounded corners of various sizes from a basic rounded corner. Algorithms can be used alone or in any combination, for example, dark and compact algorithms can be combined to get a dark and compact theme.

import { theme } from 'antd';

const { darkAlgorithm, compactAlgorithm } = theme;

const theme = {
  algorithm: [darkAlgorithm, compactAlgorithm],
};

API

Theme

ComponentsConfig

algorithm of component is false by default, which means tokens of component will only override global token. When it is set with true, the algorithm will be the same as global. You can also pass algorithm or Array of algorithm, and it will override algorithm of global.

SeedToken

MapToken

Inherit all SeedToken properties

AliasToken

Inherit all SeedToken and MapToken properties

FAQ

Why component re-mounted when theme changed from undefined to some object or to undefined?

In ConfigProvider, we pass context through DesignTokenContext. When theme is undefined, a layer of Provider will not be set, so React VirtualDOM structure changes from scratch or from existence to nothing, causing components to be re-mounted. Solution: Replace undefined with an empty object {}.