What is the children prop?

React JSX, components and props · Freshers

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children holds whatever you put between a component's opening and closing tags: <Card><p>Hello</p></Card>. The Card component receives it as props.children and decides where to render it.

It is how you build wrapper components such as cards, layouts and modals that accept any content.

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