How to deal with styles in Magento 2

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3 WAYS TO COMPILE YOUR FRONTEND

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Client side JavaScript

DON‘TFORECAST

THE FALLBACKPROCESS

LET’S KEEP IT SIMPLE

MODULES

UI LIB

THEME

view_

pro

cessed

pu

b/static

OVERWRITE AND EXTEND

_theme.less

_button.less

Blank Theme or UI Lib _theme.less

_button_extend.less

Extend

Overwrite

_extend.less

FRONTENDFRAMEWORK

YEAY, WE HAVE DOCUMENTATION

lib/web/css/docs

var/view_preprocessed/css/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/css/docs

pub/static/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/css/docs

CUSTOMIZE ALL THE THINGS

Use variables. (docs/variables.html)

USE THE FRAMEWORK!(docs/*.html)

Overwrite Mixins.

BUILDING STYLES BY MIXINS

.lib-button-primary (...)

.lib-button (...)

.lib-css (...)

.lib-gradient (...)

.lib-font-size (...)

.lib-line-height (...)

...

.lib-css (...) {@{_property}: @_value;

}

.lib-button-s (...)

.lib-button-size (...)

lib/web/css/source/lib/_utilities.less

THE LAYOUT & THE GRID@use-flex: true;

@total-columns: 12;

@gutter-width: 0;

<div class="columns"><div class="column main">Main column</div<div class="column left sidebar">Left column</div><div class="column right sidebar">Right column</div>

</div>

@layout-column__width: @total-columns;

@layout-column__sidebar-width: 2;

@layout-column__left-width: @layout-column__sidebar-width;

@layout-column__right-width: @layout-column__sidebar-width;

.lib-layout-column(@_total-columns, @_order, @_width);.lib-column-width(@span, @total-columns: @total-columns) { ... }

GROUPING & CONFIGURATION

@media-target: ‘all|desktop|mobile'; @media-common: true|false;

& when (@media-common = true) { ... }

& when (@media-target = mobile) { ... }

Are your styles common?

What are your styles for?

HELPTO IMPROVE

BE RESPONSIVE

@screen__xxs: 320px;

@screen__xs: 480px;

@screen__s: 640px;

@screen__m: 768px;

@screen__l: 1024px;

@screen__xl: 1440px;

.media-width(@extremum, @break)

‘min’ or ‘max’

.media-width(@extremum, @break) when (@extremum = 'min') and (@break = @screen__m) {}

.media-width(@extremum, @break) when (@extremum = 'max') and (@break = @screen__s) {}

Desktop:

Mobile:

STATS OF THE RESULT – LUMA THEME

.bundle-options-container .product-options-wrapper

.fieldset-bundle-options .field.choice .price-notice

.price-including-tax + .price-excluding-tax {}

styles-m (285Kb) > styles-l (81Kb)Not IE9 compatabile. (allowed selectors 4095, luma 4140)

#cccccc is listed 85 times!important is used 16 times[class^=""], * selectors 44 times

http://www.testmycss.com/

YOUR MODULES

_module.less

base_variables.less_colors.less

mixin_items.less_buttons.less

Theme overwritesbase/_variables.lessmixin/_items.less

.myStyles (@isActivated) when (@isActivated = true) { ... }

@isActivated: true;.myModule {

.myStyles(@isActivated)}

MAKE ITAWESOME