How to create avatar in react js?

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To create an avatar in React js, you have to use the npm or yarn package manager that is how you can install the avatar library into your project.

Today, I am going to show you, how to create avatar in react js.

Table of contents

• Set up the React project.
• Import necessary components.
• Define the Avatar component.

Let’s start with the first step.

Step 1: Set up the React project.

First you have to install the React project. You should use create-react-app command to create a new React project.

npx create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

Step 2: Import necessary components.

In this line, you have to import the styles.css file that contains CSS styles for the Avatar component.

import React from "react";
import "./styles.css";

Step 3: Define the Avatar component.

In this code, you have to define a functional component called Avatar that returns a div element with the class avatar and the letter "R" inside it.

const Avatar = () => {
  return (
  <div className="avatar">R</div>
  );
};

ReactJS create avatar example.

This code below is an example, you must use the CSS class Avatar can be applied to any HTML element with the class attribute set to avatar.

App.js

import React from "react";
import "./styles.css";

const Avatar = () => {
  return (
  <div className="avatar">R</div>
  );
};

export default Avatar;

App.css

.avatar {
  position: relative;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  flex-shrink: 0;
  width: 40px;
  height: 40px;
  font-family: "Roboto", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.25rem;
  line-height: 1;
  border-radius: 50%;
  overflow: hidden;
  user-select: none;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #bdbdbd;
}

Check the output of the above code example.

Here, we are provided code sandbox links for the above program create avatar in React js. Then you can use whenever you went and do the changes as per your requirements.

Try it Yourself

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