material text field label not copyable? - material-ui

Question

I am using MUI's Text Field component and found there's literally no way to copy the label contents. Is there a way to copy the label somehow?
See the demo here: https://codesandbox.io/s/4ou0l7?file=/demo.tsx
Thanks

Answer 1

It is because material UI is disabling the label selection using CSS.
You can enable it back in a few ways. You can enable it for a certain field or across all of them using the material UI theme override ability.
In order to enable label selection only to one field, you have pass an additional prop to your TextField: InputLabelProps={{ sx: { userSelect: "text" } }}
And here I have provided you with the second way to do that for all the text fields:
import * as React from "react";
import Box from "#mui/material/Box";
import TextField from "#mui/material/TextField";
import { createTheme, ThemeProvider } from "#mui/material/styles";
const theme = createTheme({
components: {
MuiInputLabel: {
styleOverrides: {
root: {
userSelect: "text"
}
}
}
}
});
const StateTextFields = () => {
const [name, setName] = React.useState("Cat in the Hat");
const handleChange = (event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
setName(event.target.value);
};
return (
<Box
component="form"
sx={{
"& > :not(style)": { m: 1, width: "25ch" }
}}
noValidate
autoComplete="off"
>
<TextField
id="outlined-name"
label="Name"
value={name}
onChange={handleChange}
/>
<TextField
id="outlined-uncontrolled"
label="Uncontrolled"
defaultValue="foo"
/>
</Box>
);
};
export default () => (
<ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
<StateTextFields />
</ThemeProvider>
);
Of course, you can extract this ThemeProvider into a separate file and wrap with it the whole project, not only this file. It is combined just for the example.

Answer 2

I found a way that this can be done using the helperText and my solution is more of a hack. I am using the helperText and positioning it where the label was used to be, giving it a background and bringing it to front using z-index.
Also you can either choose to use the label or replace it with the placeholder depending if you are happy with the animation.
Here is a codesandbox based on your code in case you need it.
<TextField
id="outlined-name"
label="Name"
// placeholder="Name"
value={name}
onChange={handleChange}
helperText="Name"
sx={{
"& .MuiFormHelperText-root": {
top: "-11px",
position: "absolute",
zIndex: "1",
background: "white",
padding: "0 4px",
}
}}
/>