Re: [webcomponents] Sharing styles across custom elements (#282)

Varunkumar,
CSS properties are the current way developers are theming in Web Components
right now, at least the ones I know. Polymer developers are as well. It
seems to be where things are headed.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Varunkumar Nagarajan <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

> We are building a bunch of components for an internal project. These
> components share some common styles (like font-awesome fonts, custom css
> framework, etc). As of now, we are sharing these styles across components
> using /deep/ combinators. I understand from the recent
> <https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/WebComponentsApril2015Meeting> web
> components meeting that /deep/ combinator and other shadow piercing
> combinators are going to be removed.
>
> I understand that Shadow DOM provides style boundary and it also helps in
> abstracting the implementation details of the component. In my use case, I
> am more interested in the latter than the former. Though style boundary
> prevents accidental leakage of styles, I still find the ability to
> selectively pierce the components useful.
>
> Please suggest alternatives for being able to share styles across
> components. (Custom css properties and named parts model might not be
> suitable for this use case. I am interesting in sharing classes across
> components than configuring hooks for theming).
>
> —
> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
> <https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/issues/282>.
>



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