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		Touche on Nov 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Material UI Does React have something like web component's <content/> ? It's really unfortunately that the LeftNav component takes an array of objects to turn into links instead of allowing you to define arbitrary html as <content/>

kfinley on Nov 10, 2014 [–]

Yes, React components have a special `this.props.children` property [0]. Which works similarly to web components's <content/>.

The current implementation of `LeftNav` doesn't allow for this, but it would be easy to add.

0: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/multiple-components.htm...

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