Material UI Menu using routes

another long overdue update:

containerElement prop is not supported anymore, use component prop instead.

Check out the document here.

2016 December Edit: the linkButton prop is deprecated, you will get a warning:

Warning: Unknown props `linkButton` on <a> tag.

So simply remove the prop:

<MenuItem
  containerElement={<Link to="/profile" />}
  primaryText="Profile"
  leftIcon={
    <FontIcon className="material-icons">people</FontIcon>
  }
/>

Here’s an Example Repo, and the Live Demo Here.

Original answer:

Just wanted to point out that if you’re using react-router, you might want to use <Link to="/some/page" /> rather than the <a> tag.

To do this, you need to use the containerElement prop

<MenuItem
  linkButton
  containerElement={<Link to="/profile" />}
  primaryText="Profile"
  leftIcon={
    <FontIcon className="material-icons">people</FontIcon>
  }
/>

(the ={true} can be omitted if you’re only passing true,
in other words, <MenuItem linkButton /> is same as <MenuItem linkButton={true} />)

The containerElement and linkButton props is actually documented in the buttons section, but you can use it in MenuItem as well.