This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
I've been creating a <share-button> custom
element and
after I launched it, I noticed that something was funky with default button
styling. They were white instead of grey.
I needed to be able to dynamically let the developer style the button that was
in my Shadow DOM and to do that you have to use CSS Variables. In Chrome (at
least... I need to test other browsers.) there seems to be no way to have a
button with a background-color whose value is defined by a CSS Variable even
if the value of the CSS variable is 'initial', 'inherit', something undefined,
and have it appear as the default button.
The instant you do anything with the background color it changes the <button>
to be non-natively styled.
For example:
<style>
#button2 {
--but2: initial;
background-color: var(--but2);
}
</style>
<button>Button 1</button>
<button id="button2">Button 2</button>
Demo:
Here is the image of it failing for me:
There is a way around this. My colleague Surma suggested that I should try and get the default computed styles, add that to the custom CSS variable and then apply that to the background-color.
It works, but it is hacky.
<style>
#button3 {
--but3: initial;
}
</style>
<button>Button 1</button>
<button id="button3">Button 3</button>
<script>
const defaultButtonStyle = window.getComputedStyle(button3);
button3.style.setProperty('--but3', defaultButtonStyle.backgroundColor);
button3.style.backgroundColor = 'var(--but3)';
</script>
Here is the image of it working for me:
This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
Paul Kinlan | Sciencx (2017-04-07T12:20:31+00:00) Issue with css variables and button background styling. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2017/04/07/issue-with-css-variables-and-button-background-styling/
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