name: material-3-to-material-2-theme-adapter description: Learn how to seamlessly integrate Material Design 3's styling into your Material Design 2 components using CSS variable overrides. metadata: url: https://rodydavis.com/posts/snippets/m3-to-m2-css-adapter last_modified: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:04:28 GMT
Material 3 to Material 2 Theme Adapter
Overview
How to style Material 2 components with Material 3 in CSS:
:root {
--mdc-theme-primary: var(--md-sys-color-primary);
--mdc-theme-on-primary: var(--md-sys--coloron-primary);
--mdc-theme-background: var(--md-sys--colorbackground);
--mdc-theme-on-background: var(--md-sys--coloron-background);
--mdc-theme-on-surface-variant: var(--md-sys--coloron-surface-variant);
--mdc-theme-surface-variant: var(--md-sys--colorsurface-variant);
--mdc-theme-on-surface: var(--md-sys--coloron-surface);
--mdc-theme-surface: var(--md-sys--colorsurface);
--mdc-theme-text-primary-on-background: var(--md-sys--coloron-surface-variant);
--mdc-theme-outline: var(--md-sys-color-outline);
}