import React, { Component } from "react";
import './navbar.css'
class NavBar extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div>
navbar stuff
</div>
);
}
}
export default NavBar;
If I were to import NavBar to another file and place it.
import React, { Component } from "react";
import NavBar from './NavBar'
import './randomfile.css'
class somefile extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div id="test">
<NavBar />
</div>
);
}
}
export default somefile;
How do I prevent the CSS to affect my navbar? I'm trying to work with components but I've fallen into a bunch of CSS on my components when I just want the CSS i have in my NavBar file
randomfile.css
#test div {
text-align: left;
}
^ Makes everything under div align to the left
it depends on how the other css files are written like if they use very general rules such as elements matches so there is no way to prevent 100%. However you can minimize the impact by using.
Follow BEM for your styles, http://getbem.com/, so your styles will be tighter and it is usually specific for your components.
Use css in js libraries like styled-components, https://www.styled-components.com/, this way your css rules will be very strong and it is often enough to rule other rules outside.
I my self used to use BEM before, recently I have adopted css in js and been using styled components for most of my projects recently and it works quite well.
Related
I was looking in for a way to dynamically generate a stylesheet for specific parts of a component that already rely on css for specific things. I was wondering how I could create styles that use compound selectors without dynamically depending on the state of the component (the number of children to render for ex).
I found that material-ui and other libs uses this make-styles or styled-components.
Are there any simpler/hacky implementations of that same principle?
Thanks
You can use CSS modules in React for component specific styles.
Make a css file and name it *.module.css
Example:
firstComponent.module.css
.container {
display: flex;
}
.firstChild {
flex: 1;
}
In your .tsx or .jsx file:
import style from './firstComponent.module.css';
const FirstComponent = () => {
return (
<div className={style.container}>
<div className={style.firstChild}>First child</div>
</div
)
}
I have two .jsx files that represent their respective components.
The first one is, Blog.jsx
import React from "react";
import '../assets/css/blog.css';
export const Blog = () => (
<div>
<h1>Hello Blog</h1>
</div>
)
With its respective CSS file, blog.css
div { background: #ff481f; }
and the second one is, Landing.jsx
import React from "react";
import '../assets/css/landing.css'
export const Landing = () => (
<div>
<h1>Hello Landing</h1>
</div>
)
With its respective CSS file, landing.css
div { background: #86ff2b; }
I have added routing and called instances of those two components on the App.js file which is the default file of a React application. After running the application, when navigated to components, I faced a problem that the background color is the same for both of the components (It loads landing.css only and never changes).
How can I fix that problem that each component only uses its respective .css file and loads it?
By default webpack and other build tools will compile all CSS files into one, even if css was imported in separate JSX files. So you can't use different CSS files and expect you don't affect on another part of page.
You have some options:
Use BEM for naming class names.
Use cssModules. In this case elements will have their own css class name and styles will not affect any other elements except if you use :global selector.
css-module
Using html tags as css selectors is a bad practice (because there is the behaviour you describe).
You should use only css classes or inline styles (using id's is another bad practise, id's have high priority).
div {
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
}
#id {
background: red;
}
.class {
background: green;
}
<div id="id" class="class"></div>
In case using css classes there is the same problem (when you have two similar classes). And this case is decided using css modules (set of rules of building) or you can use css-in-js (external library) which has its pros and cons. Also you can use BEM (methodology) and if your application is not big you can avoid this trouble.
css modules will add to your classes random hash and instead .my-awesome-class-name you will get .my-awesome-class-name-dew3sadf32s.
So, if you have two classes .class in the first file and .class in the second file in the end you will get two classes .class-dew23s2 and .class-dg22sf and you styles will resolve as expected.
css-in-js is a similar way except you should write your styles using javascript with some profits like including only those styles that are needed at the moment (what you are looking for right now) and several others.
You can code using pure css / scss / postcss / etc but many companies already choose between css modules and css-in-js.
BEM is just naming conventions for your class names.
And lastly - if you use inline-styles using react you should remember:
{} is constructor of object and {} returns new object on every call, it's mean if you write something like:
class MyAwesomeComponent extends Component {
render() {
return <div style={{color: "red"}}></div>;
}
}
or
class MyAwesomeComponent extends Component {
render() {
const divStyles = {color: "red"};
return <div style={divStyles}></div>;
}
}
div will re-render every time your render will call because div takes new prop.
Instead, you should define your styles (for example) in outside of your class:
const divStyles = {color: "red"};
class MyAwesomeComponent extends Component {
render() {
return <div style={divStyles}></div>;
}
}
Don't define your css using HTML tags because it will affect your entire application.
use className,id or inline styling.
like- App.css
.myApp{ color: red;}
#myApp2{ color: blue;}
App.js
import './App.css'
<div className="myApp">color changed by className</div>
<div id="myApp2">color changed by id</div>
<div style={{color:'red'}}>color changed by inline object styling</div> // inline styling
This is not the best solution if you are looking forward to improve yours css imports/loads.
However could be the best solution if you dont want to go in deep in css, resolve the problem fast and keep working with HTML tag.
You can add a div for each component, define an Id for the div and wrap the component. Afterwards in the component's css fies you are going to define all the styles starting with the #id so all the css classe or HTML tag will affect just the corresponding component.
//App render in root
ReactDOM.render(
<App />,
document.getElementById('root')
);
//App
function App(props){
return [
<Blog />, <OtherComponent />
]
}
//Blog component
function Blog(props){
return <div id="blog">
<h1>I am Blog</h1>
</div>
}
//Other component
function OtherComponent(props){
return <div id="otherComponent">
<h1>Im am other component</h1>
</div>
}
/* blog.css*/
#blog h1{
color:yellow;
}
/* otherComponent.css*/
#otherComponent h1{
color:green;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.6.3/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="root"></div>
I'm working on a ReactJS app that has a header at the top, a menu on the left, and the "frame" in the middle is where routes and their corresponding components are loaded. I want to be able to apply a CSS stylesheet to specific components only when they are loaded. I also don't want them applied all the time or to the top header or left menu.
My expectation was that adding import 'custom.css'; to a specific component would only apply the stylesheet's styles to that component and it's children when the route is active. Instead, it applies it to the entire page even when the route/component are not loaded.
I understand that an alternative approach is styled components, but, for my use-case, a design company is supplying a stylesheet (which should remain unchanged) that we need to consume only for the sub-module I'm working on and I don't want its styles to affect the rest of the app.
How can I have a stylesheet only applied to my active route/component?
Use simple CSS technique. Suppose you have two components with different css files (say about.css and contact.css). Now consider your both CSS file have one common class with different style properties, like:
about.css
.container{
max-width: 400px;
}
contact.css
.container{
max-width: 500px;
}
Yes in ReactJS both the CSS files will load at the same time and will override any one of the style. so to solve this problem add class to differentiate this styles, like:
about.css
.about-component.container{
max-width: 400px;
}
contact.css
.contact-component.container{
max-width: 500px;
}
If you want apply only when the component is mounted, you can use the lifecycle.
The follow example is based in the idea you are using sass, React, sass-node and have the loaders into webpack.
<pre>
import React from 'react';
import './styles.scss';
class MyComponent {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { className: '' }
}
componentDidMount() {
this.setState({
className: 'myOwnClass'
});
}
render(){
return (
<div className={this.state.className}>This is a example</div>
);
}
}
export default myComponent;
</pre>
To be able to only call that specific CSS when you need it you can use CSS Modules. You may need to update your version of react.
When saving your CSS file save it with a ".module.css" eg. "styles.module.css". The CSS in these files can only be used and accessed by hte components where are they are imported. As stated in a tutorial from W3Schools.
Let's say this is your CSS code in styles.module.css:
.container {
color: white;
}
.cont-child {
background-color: red;
}
Then in your JS file you can import the CSS file like this if the JS and CSS files are in the same directory. Make sure you point to the correct path.
import styles from './styles.module.css'
Then in your HTML section you can use it like this:
class Home extends React.Component {
render() {
return(
<main className={ styles.container } >
<div className={ styles["cont-child"]} >
Some div text about something...
</div>
</main>
);
}
}
I currently use both ways to access the selectors, since the styles variable acts like an object. I placed both of them here because the second option is capable of fetching selectors named like "btn-active". Which comes in handy in some situations. Camelcasing is considered cleaner though.
Please note: I originally posted this answer as a reply to a similar question here React CSS - how to apply CSS to specific pages only
I want to be able to apply a CSS stylesheet to specific components
only when they are loaded.
Why not apply the styles inline via React.js?
Step 1. Create the style object for the component:
var componentOneStyle = {
color: 'white',
backgroundColor: 'red'
};
Step 2. Populate the component's style attribute with the style object:
ReactDOM.render(<div style={componentOneStyle}>This is Component One</div>, mountNode);
I have header.js file like this:
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import Classes from '../css/style.css';
class Header extends Component {
render() {
return (
<header>
<div className={Classes.logo}>Logo</div>
</header>
)
}
}
export default Header;
the problem the class name logo is not loaded, after inspect this in the browser the html appear like this:
<div>Logo</div>
why is that ?
I haven't seen CSS classes used this way in React before. Does this this work?
return (
<header>
<div className="logo">Logo</div>
</header>
)
This assumes you have a .logo class in your style.css and your bundler is configured to handle CSS.
Using {Classes.logo} would imply you have some stateful object named Classes with a logo property
All you have is imported a CSS file, which has no dynamic state, therefore you only need a string of the classes to load on this tag
className="logo"
Where the CSS has
.logo {}
I have several components which have the following CSS/component structure
About/style.css
.AboutContainer {
# Some style
}
p > code {
# Some style
}
And I import the CSS in the componet as follows
About/index.js
import './style.css';
export default class About extends Component {
render() {
# Return some component
}
}
However, the CSS is imported in the <header> section and stays global-scope.
I was expecting CSS to be:
Component-scoped in a way that the style is only applied to things that are only rendered within this component.
Style for this component would disappear if the component is unmounted.
However, when inspecting from the browser, the styles are specified at the <header> section and gets applied to all the components
<header>
// Stuff
<style type="text/css">style for component About</style>
<style type="text/css">style for component B</style>
<style type="text/css">style for component C</style>
// Stuff
</header>
How do I import CSS to be component-scoped? It seems like I'm understanding CSS import in React ES6 incorrectly.
I was following this tutorial
Edit
Answer by Brett is correct. However, my problem turns out to be somewhere else. I created my app using create-react-app which basically simplifies setups required to do React. It include WebPack, Babel and other things to get started. The default WebPack config that it uses did not set module option for the css-loader so it defaulted to false, and as a result the local-scoping was not enabled.
Just for additional info, it seems like create-react-app does not have straightforward way to customize WebPack config, but there seem to be numerous how-to workarounds on the web.
It sounds like CSS Modules, or many of the other CSS-in-JS packages, does what you want. Others include Emotion (my current favorite), Styled Components, or many of the packages here.
A CSS Module is a CSS file in which all class names and animation names are scoped locally by default. All URLs (url(...)) and #imports are in module request format (./xxx and ../xxx means relative, xxx and xxx/yyy means in modules folder, i. e. in node_modules).
Here's a quick example:
Let's say we have a React component like:
import React from 'react';
import styles from './styles/button.css';
class Button extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<button className={styles.button}>
Click Me
</button>
);
}
}
export default Button;
and some CSS in ./styles/button.css of:
.button {
border-radius: 3px;
background-color: green;
color: white;
}
After CSS Modules performs it's magic the generated CSS will be something like:
.button_3GjDE {
border-radius: 3px;
background-color: green;
color: white;
}
where the _3DjDE is a randomly generated hash - giving the CSS class a unique name.
An Alternative
A simpler alternative would be to avoid using generic selectors (like p, code, etc) and adopt a class-based naming convention for components and elements. Even a convention like BEM would help in preventing the conflicts you're encountering.
Applying this to your example, you might go with:
.aboutContainer {
# Some style
}
.aboutContainer__code {
# Some style
}
Essentially all elements you need to style would receive a unique classname.
Maybe react-scoped-css will help. Btw, I'm the author of this lib, if you find anything broken or simply want to improve it, you can always raise an issue or send a pr.
Because you mentioned you used create-react-app, the solution here is quite easy change just style.css to style.module.css, it will look like this:
import styles from "./style.module.css"
<button className={styles.button}>blabla</button>
More info on this article:
https://blog.bitsrc.io/how-to-use-sass-and-css-modules-with-create-react-app-83fa8b805e5e
You can use SASS (.scss) to imitate scoped CSS.
Say you need to use bootstrap in only one component (to avoid conflicts). Wrap the component in <div className='use-bootstrap'> and then created a .scss file like so:
.use-bootstrap {
// Paste bootstrap.min.css here
}
Use this file naming convention [name].module.css
and see documentation: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-a-sass-stylesheet
JSX File
import React from 'react';
import styles from './index.module.scss';
const MyPage = () => {
return (
<div className={styles}>
<h1>My Page</h1>
</div>
);
};
export default MyPage;
Styles File
h1 {
color: #f3f3f3;
font-family: "Cambria";
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 2rem;
}
For me, the simple solution (without using: Css-modules or css-in-js) is to add a suffix to your class selectors like this:
className="btn__suffix"
if your component is named: FileUpload.tsx so your __suffix would be __fu, i took the first character of each word (here: File and Upload).
the end result would be:
import './style.css';
export default class About extends Component {
render() {
Return (
<div className="container__fu">
...
</div>
)
}
}
And in the Css part, your file would be:
.container__fu {
...
}
I created a rollup plugin to have scoped scss/css within a vite react project with regular import, you can check it out if it can solve your issue!
https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-react-scoped-css