Dynamic styling of className not working in react

Question

I am trying to code along to a tutorial video but the dynamic styling of className isn't working. Though it seems to work on regular CSS, I'm using styled-components instead but I don't get the same outcome. The end result is supposed to be a differently styled "type" according to its value. Please help

// import ContactContext from '../../context/contact/contactContext';

const ContactItemStyles = styled.div`
  .class-bg-light {
    color: grey;
  }
  .badge {
    font-size: 0.8rem;
    padding: 0.2rem 0.7rem;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0.3rem;
    background: var(--green);
    color: #333;
    border-radius: 5px;
  }
  .badge-success {
    background: var(--green);
    color: #fff;
  }
  .badge-primary {
    background: red;
  }
`;
const ContactItem = ({ contact }) => {
  const { _id, name, email, phone, type } = contact;
  return (
    <ContactItemStyles>
      <div className='class-bg-light'>
        <h3 className='text-primary text left'>
          {name} {''} 
          <span
            className={
              'badge' +
              (type === 'professional' ? 'badge-success' : 'badge-primary')
            }
          >
            {type}
          </span>
        </h3>
      </div>
    </ContactItemStyles>
  );
};

ContactItem.propTypes = {
  contact: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
};

export default ContactItem;```

Answer 1

Almost there! Your mistake was concatenating the string values together inside className. Let's say in your example that type is 'professional', what you would end up with looks like this:

className={'badge' + 'badge-success'} 
// This becomes 'badgebadge-success' 

You could add a space after your first class, or alternatively I would recommend using string interpolation via backticks: `

So your code should look like this:

className={`badge ${type === 'professional' ? 'badge-success' : 'badge-primary'}`}

Having the curly braces show where the strings are likely to end and start makes it clearer in case you missed any whitespace.

Keep up the learning and good luck!