Timeline

The timeline displays a list of events in chronological order.

This component is not documented in the Material Design guidelines, but it is available in Material UI.

Basic timeline

A basic timeline showing list of events.

{{“demo”: “BasicTimeline.js”}}

Left-positioned timeline

The main content of the timeline can be positioned on the left side relative to the time axis.

{{“demo”: “LeftPositionedTimeline.js”}}

Alternating timeline

The timeline can display the events on alternating sides.

{{“demo”: “AlternateTimeline.js”}}

Reverse Alternating timeline

The timeline can display the events on alternating sides in reverse order.

{{“demo”: “AlternateReverseTimeline.js”}}

Color

The TimelineDot can appear in different colors from theme palette.

{{“demo”: “ColorsTimeline.js”}}

Outlined

{{“demo”: “OutlinedTimeline.js”}}

Opposite content

The timeline can display content on opposite sides.

{{“demo”: “OppositeContentTimeline.js”}}

Customization

Here is an example of customizing the component. You can learn more about this in the overrides documentation page.

{{“demo”: “CustomizedTimeline.js”}}

Alignment

There are different ways in which a Timeline can be placed within the container.

You can do it by overriding the styles.

A Timeline centers itself in the container by default.

The demos below show how to adjust the relative width of the left and right sides of a Timeline:

Left-aligned

{{“demo”: “LeftAlignedTimeline.js”}}

Right-aligned

{{“demo”: “RightAlignedTimeline.js”}}

Left-aligned with no opposite content

{{“demo”: “NoOppositeContent.js”}}