styling.md

Styling Grafana

Emotion is Grafana's default-to-be approach to styling React components. It provides a way for styles to be a consequence of properties and state of a component.

Usage

For styling components, use Emotion's css function.

Basic styling

To access the Emotion theme in your styles, use the useStyles hook. This hook provides basic memoization and access to the theme object.

Note: Please remember to put getStyles function at the end of the file!

import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
import { useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
import { css } from '@emotion/css';

const Foo = (props: FooProps) => {
  const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);

  // Use styles with classNames
  return <div className={styles}>...</div>;
};

const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) =>
  css({
    padding: theme.spacing(1, 2), // will result in 8px 16px padding
  });

Style complex components

In more complex cases, you can have the getStyles function return an object with many class names and use Emotion's cx function to compose them.

This feature can be especially useful in certain use cases:

• when you need to style multiple DOM elements in one component
• when using styles that depend on properties
• when using styles that depend on state

Let's say you need to style a component that has a different background depending on the isActive property. For example:

import { css, cx } from '@emotion/css';

import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
import { useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';

interface ComponentAProps {
  isActive: boolean;
}

const ComponentA = ({ isActive }: ComponentAProps) => {
  const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);

  return (
    <div className={cx(styles.wrapper, isActive && styles.active)}>
      As red as you can get
      <i className={styles.icon} />
    </div>
  );
};

// Mind, that you can pass multiple arguments, theme included
const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
  return {
    wrapper: css({
      background: theme.colors.background.secondary,
    }),
    active: css({
      background: theme.colors.primary.main,
      text: theme.colors.primary.contrastText,
    }),
    icon: css({
      fontSize: theme.typography.bodySmall.fontSize,
    }),
  };
};

For more information about themes at Grafana, refer to the themes guide.