artin
artin

Reputation: 1834

Define styles inside component but do not inline them [React]

I like the idea of having everything inside React component (including styles).
But I do not like the idea of inline styles (1-duplications, 2-heavy mess on Elements tab).

Is there any existing way to define styles inside component but do not have to inline them?

I mean in dev and production environments. Never inline them.

Kind of: still using CSS, but isolated to one component...

Complete requirements:

  1. Styles defined inside component
  2. no inline
  3. support preudo-classes/elements
  4. support @-rules

Upvotes: 4

Views: 949

Answers (3)

Joshua Robinson
Joshua Robinson

Reputation: 3563

Yes, made Style It because I wanted to just write plaintext CSS and not go through the object literal syntax.

Fulfills all of your requirements and some. No build step or anything to configure, automagically scopes to keep your selectors out of the global CSS namespace, XSS safe by default, tiny, and flash of unstyled content (FOUC) free.

npm install style-it --save

Functional Syntax (JSFIDDLE)

import React from 'react';
import Style from 'style-it';

class Intro extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return Style.it(`
      #heart {
        position: relative;
        width: 100px;
        height: 90px;
      }
      #heart:before,
      #heart:after {
        position: absolute;
        content: "";
        left: 50px;
        top: 0;
        width: 50px;
        height: 80px;
        background: red;
        -moz-border-radius: 50px 50px 0 0;
        border-radius: 50px 50px 0 0;
        -webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
        -moz-transform: rotate(-45deg);
        -ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
        -o-transform: rotate(-45deg);
        transform: rotate(-45deg);
        -webkit-transform-origin: 0 100%;
        -moz-transform-origin: 0 100%;
        -ms-transform-origin: 0 100%;
        -o-transform-origin: 0 100%;
        transform-origin: 0 100%;
      }
      #heart:after {
        left: 0;
        -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
        -moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
        -ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
        -o-transform: rotate(45deg);
        transform: rotate(45deg);
        -webkit-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
        -moz-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
        -ms-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
        -o-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
        transform-origin :100% 100%;
      }
    `,
      <div id="heart" />
    );
  }
}

export default Intro;

JSX Syntax (JSFIDDLE)

import React from 'react';
import Style from 'style-it';

class Intro extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Style>
      {`
        #heart {
          position: relative;
          width: 100px;
          height: 90px;
        }
        #heart:before,
        #heart:after {
          position: absolute;
          content: "";
          left: 50px;
          top: 0;
          width: 50px;
          height: 80px;
          background: red;
          -moz-border-radius: 50px 50px 0 0;
          border-radius: 50px 50px 0 0;
          -webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
          -moz-transform: rotate(-45deg);
          -ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
          -o-transform: rotate(-45deg);
          transform: rotate(-45deg);
          -webkit-transform-origin: 0 100%;
          -moz-transform-origin: 0 100%;
          -ms-transform-origin: 0 100%;
          -o-transform-origin: 0 100%;
          transform-origin: 0 100%;
        }
        #heart:after {
          left: 0;
          -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
          -moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
          -ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
          -o-transform: rotate(45deg);
          transform: rotate(45deg);
          -webkit-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
          -moz-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
          -ms-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
          -o-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
          transform-origin :100% 100%;
        }
     `}

      <div id="heart" />
    </Style>
  }
}

export default Intro;

Heart example pulled from CSS-Tricks

Upvotes: 0

Oleg Isonen
Oleg Isonen

Reputation: 1493

Yes, you can use jss, it has also react integration

Upvotes: 1

daniman
daniman

Reputation: 284

I've done this by having a .sass file that I import in the component's jsx file. I then put a class on the outermost div of the component, and namespace everything in the .sass file by that class.

Upvotes: 0

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