I am trying to append an inline CSS rule for background-image using a dynamic variable set inside the constructor like so:
<div style="background-image: url('{{backgroundImage}}');">
...
</div>
then in my Component:
export class SomeComponent {
backgroundImage = '';
constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, public navParams: NavParams) {
this.backgroundImage = 'https://unsplash.it/200/300' ; }
}
However, when the element is rendered to the screen, the inline CSS rule gets omitted.
I tried using Angular's ng-style, but it returns "Can't bind to 'ng-style' since it isn't a known property of 'div'".
I also tried setting styles inside my #Component declaration as noted in this answer, but this wouldn't fly in my case, as I need the backgroundImage variable to be dynamic.
Since Ionic2 (or just Ionic) is built on top of Angular (an not AngularJS), you can do that like this:
<div [ngStyle]="{ background: 'url(' + backgroundImage + ')' }"></div>
or
<div [style.background]="'url(' + backgroundImage + ')'"></div>
Related
Usually, I can style the very root of my component by using the :host pseudo style like this.
:host{ border: 1px solid gold; }
But how shold I handle if said style is supposed to be set dynamically, based on the parameters passed to #Input?
The only way I can think of at the moment is to add an auxilliary DIV and style it like so.
<div [ngClass]="styleMeDynamically"> ... </div>
Is there a way to apply a style dynamically directly on the host without the injected DIV?
I've found this suggestion but it requires explicitly stating the classes and connecting them to separate inputs. I'd like to get a config object as passed in parameter and bind the styling using [ngClass] to retail full flexibility.
Probably #HostBinding decorator can help you. It allows to bind any host attribute including class and style. For example:
#Component({ ... })
export class MyComponent {
// you can conditionally add a class to the host element
#Input()
#HostBinding('class.large')
large = false;
// it's possible to bind a style as well
#Input()
#HostBinding('style.border.px')
borderWidth = 1;
#Input()
green = false;
// and you can use a getter
#HostBinding('style.border-color')
get borderColorStyle() {
return this.green ? 'green' : 'black';
}
}
Since angular 9 it should be possible even to bind a CSS variable, see Improved CSS class and style binding section of the 9 version release article.
<div [style.--main-border-color]=" '#CCC' ">
<p style="border: 1px solid var(--main-border-color)">hi</p>
</div>
What you can do is,
Create a custom directive that will accept a style object. and inside that directive, you can get the reference of host element and modify its style.
Here is a Demo
And here is a quick explanation.
Create a directive as which will accept a style object.
import {Directive,TemplateRef,ElementRef,OnChanges,SimpleChanges,OnInit,Renderer2,DoCheck,Input} from "#angular/core";
#Directive({
selector: "[appSetStyle]"
})
export class SetStyleDirective implements OnInit, OnChanges {
#Input() appSetStyle: { [key: string]: any } = {};
constructor(private elementRef: ElementRef<HTMLElement>) {}
ngOnInit(): void {}
ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges): void {
this.applyStyles();
}
applyStyles(): void {
if (this.appSetStyle) {
for (const key in this.appSetStyle) {
this.elementRef.nativeElement.style[key] = this.appSetStyle[key];
}
}
}
}
Use that style object with any html element or any other component in your project.
<app-header [appSetStyle]="dynamicStyles"></app-header>
If you don't want to make a directive then you can inject the ElementRef inside the component itself which you want to style.
ElementRef is the what you need to use to get the reference of host.
I hope this will help.
The title is not really a question it is more like an idea, I don't know what approach is best for my situation.
So, the problem. I have some 3rd party component that have some complex structure and styling. Some part of it has some predefined CSS class that I can override with CSS in my surrounding component. Something like this:
my component:
<div class="my-cmp-container">
<some-3rd-party-cmp></some-3rd-party-cmp>
</div>
3rd party component:
<div class="3rd-party-css-class">
...
</div>
For example, 3rd-party-css-class has style background-color: #f00, I can override it with .my-cmp-container .3rd-party-css-class { background-color: #fff; } etc. But. What if I need to set color dynamically, it's stored in a DB for example and I can't predefine each case in my class' CSS. I just have the color in hex.
In theory I can generate unique string to set as CSS class for every instance of some-3rd-party-cmp and somehow generate CSS in my component? I'm lost a little, what is the best approach for this?
Edit: Code sample to illustrate the situation https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-kxdatq
What you are trying to do is the subject of this open issue about stylesheet binding in Angular. Until that feature is available, you can get what you want with a custom directive. Here is a directive that retrieves the checkbox element generated by ng-zorro-antd and applies two color attributes to it. The two colors are #Input properties and the directive implements OnChanges which allows to react to property binding changes.
#Directive({
selector: "[nz-checkbox][nz-chk-style]"
})
export class CheckBoxStyleDirective implements OnInit, OnChanges {
#Input("nz-chk-bkgnd") chkBkgndColor: string;
#Input("nz-chk-border") chkBorderColor: string;
private checkbox: HTMLElement;
constructor(private renderer: Renderer2, private el: ElementRef) { }
ngOnInit() {
this.checkbox = this.el.nativeElement.querySelector(".ant-checkbox-inner");
this.updateBackgroundColor();
this.updateBorderColor();
}
ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges) {
if (changes.chkBkgndColor) {
this.updateBackgroundColor();
}
if (changes.chkBorderColor) {
this.updateBorderColor();
}
}
updateBackgroundColor() {
if (this.checkbox) {
this.renderer.setStyle(this.checkbox, "background-color", this.chkBkgndColor);
}
}
updateBorderColor() {
if (this.checkbox) {
this.renderer.setStyle(this.checkbox, "border-color", this.chkBorderColor);
}
}
}
Once the directive attribute selector nz-chk-style is applied to the 3rd party element, you can set the checkbox background and border colors with property binding as follows:
<span nz-checkbox nz-chk-style [nz-chk-bkgnd]="bkgndColor" [nz-chk-border]="borderColor" >
See this interactive stackblitz for a demo.
Not sure if you are using Angular but you tagged it, so I guess you are.
If you want to change only the color and nothing more, instead of having a .3rd-party-css-class class, you could just have your with an ng-style like so:
<some-3rd-party-cmp ng-style="{ color: your_color_hex_variable }"></some-3rd-party-cmp>
You can also define a whole object if styles and pass it.
You can also use ng-class and pass one or an array of class names what you want to put additionally on your component:
<some-3rd-party-cmp ng-class="[cls1, cls2, cls3]"></some-3rd-party-cmp>
<some-3rd-party-cmp ng-class="[3rd-party-css-class, someCondition ? 'another-class-name' : '']"></some-3rd-party-cmp>
In the classes you can define the css rules you want to apply and thats it.
With this solutions you can avoid having extra wrapper elements for styling purposes which is a nice thing.
I am using modular css in react. I have to addClass to a <h2> how do I do that the problem is I am using modular css I know how to do it in normal css.Please Help.
Here is my component
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import style from '../css/MessageHeader.css';
class MessageHeader extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
name : "name"
}
}
render(){
return(
<div className={style.container}>
<div className={style.iconWrapper}>
<i className ="fas fa-angle-left"></i>
</div>
<div className={style.profileWrapper}>
<h2 className={this.state.name}>john appleseed </h2> //this is how I would in normal css
</div>
</div>
);
}
}
export default MessageHeader;
This would help you add the className this way. Variable is any variable in state with classname
<h2 className={`${this.state.variable}`}></h2>
While you can use a global class, I'm assuming you also want the h2 classes to be scoped to that component. Just like your other classes, you need to reference the style import - but use a dynamic key based on the state, like so:
<h2 className={style[this.state.name]}>john appleseed </h2>
Then your css module MessageHeader.css should contain a class for all names that you want to custom styling for.
Example:
.container {
// some styles here
}
.johnAppleseed {
color: yellow;
}
// You can also specify a name as a child of the container just like normal css,
// although it's not really necessary
.container .bobBobbert {
color: red;
}
Keep in mind that if your name in the state has spaces, that isn't going to work for a css class name, so you'll have to do some transformation (e.g. this.state.name.replace(...) to remove spaces and/or punctuation.
I have been struggling to figure out the best way to dynamically change the background-image attribute in a number of Angular 2 components.
In the following example, I am attempting to set the background-image of a div to an #Input value using [ngStyle] directive:
import {Component, Input} from '#angular/core';
import { User } from '../models';
// exporting type aliases to enforce better type safety (https://github.com/ngrx/example-app)
export type UserInput = User;
#Component({
selector: 'profile-sidenav',
styles: [ `
.profile-image {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
`],
template: `
<div class="profile-image" [ngStyle]="{ 'background-image': url({{image}})">
<h3>{{ username }}</h3>
`
})
export class ProfileSidenav {
#Input() user: UserInput;
blankImage: string = '../assets/.../camera.png';
// utilizing "getters" to keep templates clean in 'dumb' components (https://github.com/ngrx/example-app)
get username() {
return this.user.username;
}
get image() {
if (!this.user.image) { return this.cameraImage;
} else { return this.user.image; }
}
I don't think the issue is with the observable, since username displays and doing something like <img *ngIf="image" src="{{ image }}"> renders the image. I have to access the background-image attribute because apparently that is the best way to make a circular image, but in general would like to know how to do this.
EDIT:
My original [ngStyle] declaration had unnecessary curly brackets (ngStyle is a directive that can take a variable), and was missing string tags around url() and image. The correct way is (as answered below) is:
<div class="profile-image" [ngStyle]="{'background-image': 'url(' + image + ')'}"></div>`.
As stated in the original edit, a solution can also be achieved with the Renderer class in Angular 2. I have yet to do it but think there should be a way with setElementStylesor something like that. I will try to post an example but would love if someone else showed me (and others) how to for the time being.
I think that you should use something like that:
<div class="profile-image"
[ngStyle]="{ 'background-image': 'url(' + image + ')'}">
where image is a property of your component.
See this question:
How to add background-image using ngStyle (angular2)?
You don't need to use NgStyle. You can also do this:
[style.background-image]="'url(' + image + ')'"
See more at How to add background-image using ngStyle (angular2)?
redfox05's answer works well since there is no space in the image URL, but by a bit change in code we can make it work again:
<div style.background-image="url('{{image}}')"></div>"
The main reason is simple, you declared a global variable as blankImage but in the template you called image instead of blankImage.
Your ts code variable blankImage
blankImage: string = '../assets/.../camera.png';
Your template code variable image
<div class="profile-image" [ngStyle]="{'background-image': 'url(' + image + ')'}"></div>
that's wrong
I think you should add:
<div class="profile-image" [ngStyle]="{ 'backgroundImage': url({{image}})">
Regards
Is it possible to change style of pseudo elements using [style] or [ngStyle] in angular2?
in order to get a blur effect on a div acts like an overlay, and I should set up background-image on pseudo element.
I tried something like
<div class="blur" [style.before.backgroundImage]="'url('+ featuredImage[i] + ' )'">
it didn't work. I also tried this
<div class="blur" [ngStyle]="'{:before{ background-image:url('+ featuredImage[i] + ' )}}'">
You can achieve what you need with CSS variables.
In your style sheet you can set the background image like this:
.featured-image:after { content: '';
background-image: var(--featured-image);
}
After that you can programmatically set this variable on the same element or higher up in the DOM tree:
<div class="featured-image" [ngStyle]="{'--featured-image': featuredImage}">
More about CSS variables here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_variables Note that the browser support is not complete yet.
Also note that you will need to sanitize the url/style using sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(path) or sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustStyle('--featured-image:url(' + path + ')')):
No it's not possible. It is actually not an Angular issue: pseudo elements are not part of DOM tree, and because of that do not expose any DOM API that can be used to interact with them.
Usual approach if you want to deal with pseudo elements programmatically is indirect: you add/remove/change class and in CSS make this class affect corresponding pseudo-element. So in your case you could have one more class that changes necessary style:
.blur:before {/* some styles */}
.blur.background:before {/* set background */}
Now all you need to do is to toggle .background class on the element when you need before pseudo-element to get a background. You can use NgClass, for example.
if you want to add other properties I did it like this:
<div class="progress" [style]= "'--porcentaje-width:' + widthh " ></div>
and the css:
.progress::after {
content: '';
width: var(--porcentaje-width);
}
this worked for me :)
With current versions of Angular 2+ you can use CSS Variables to achieve this as well as sanitizing your input.
In your style sheet define the rule using CSS Variables. A fallback can also be defined as CSS Variables aren't supported by IE.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties
.featured-image:after {
content: '';
// Fallback for IE
background-image: url('fallback-img.png');
background-image: var(--featured-image);
}
Rather than bypassing security trust style, you can also sanitize your input with a reusable pipe:
https://angular.io/api/platform-browser/DomSanitizer#sanitize
import {Pipe, PipeTransform, SecurityContext} from '#angular/core';
import {DomSanitizer, SafeStyle} from '#angular/platform-browser';
#Pipe({
name: 'safeStyle',
})
export class SafeStylePipe implements PipeTransform {
constructor(protected sanitizer: DomSanitizer) {}
transform(value: string): SafeStyle {
if (!value) return '';
return this.sanitizer.sanitize(SecurityContext.STYLE, value);
}
}
In your template:
<div class="featured-image" [style.--featured-image]="featuredImage[i] | safeStyle"></div>