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# Component styles
Angular applications are styled with standard CSS. That means you can apply
everything you know about CSS stylesheets, selectors, rules, and media queries
directly to Angular applications.
Additionally, Angular can bundle *component styles*
with components, enabling a more modular design than regular stylesheets.
This page describes how to load and apply these component styles.
Run the <live-example></live-example> in Stackblitz and download the code from there.
## Using component styles
For every Angular component you write, you can define not only an HTML template,
but also the CSS styles that go with that template,
specifying any selectors, rules, and media queries that you need.
One way to do this is to set the `styles` property in the component metadata.
The `styles` property takes an array of strings that contain CSS code.
Usually you give it one string, as in the following example:
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-app.component.ts" header="src/app/hero-app.component.ts"></code-example>
## Style scope
<div class="alert is-critical">
The styles specified in `@Component` metadata _apply only within the template of that component_.
</div>
They are _not inherited_ by any components nested within the template nor by any content projected into the component.
In this example, the `h1` style applies only to the `HeroAppComponent`,
not to the nested `HeroMainComponent` nor to `<h1>` tags anywhere else in the application.
This scoping restriction is a ***styling modularity feature***.
* Use the CSS class names and selectors that make the most sense in the context of each component.
* Class names and selectors are local to the component and don't collide with
classes and selectors used elsewhere in the application.
* Changes to styles elsewhere in the application don't affect the component's styles.
* Co-locate the CSS code of each component with the TypeScript and HTML code of the component,
which leads to a neat and tidy project structure.
* Change or remove component CSS code without searching through the
whole application to find where else the code is used.
{@a special-selectors}
## Special selectors
Component styles have a few special *selectors* from the world of shadow DOM style scoping
(described in the [CSS Scoping Module Level 1](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-scoping-1) page on the
[W3C](https://www.w3.org) site).
The following sections describe these selectors.
### :host
Every component is associated within an element that matches the component's selector. This element, into which the template is rendered,
is called the _host element_.
The `:host` pseudo-class selector may be used to create styles that target the host element itself, as opposed to targeting elements inside the host.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/host-selector-example.component.ts" header="src/app/host-selector-example.component.ts">
</code-example>
Creating the following style will target the component's host element. Any rule applied to this selector will affect the host element and all its descendants (in this case, italicizing all contained text).
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-details.component.css" region="host" header="src/app/hero-details.component.css"></code-example>
The `:host` selector only targets the host element of a component. Any styles within the `:host` block of a child component will *not* affect parent components.
Use the *function form* to apply host styles conditionally by
including another selector inside parentheses after `:host`.
In this example the host's content also becomes bold when the `active` CSS class is applied to the host element.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-details.component.css" region="hostfunction" header="src/app/hero-details.component.css"></code-example>
The `:host` selector can also be combined with other selectors.
Add selectors behind the `:host` to select child elements, for example using `:host h2` to target all `<h2>` elements inside a component's view.
<div class="alert is-helpful">
You should not add selectors (other than `:host-context`) in front of the `:host` selector to style a component based on the outer context of the component's view. Such selectors are not scoped to a component's view and will select the outer context, but it's not built-in behavior. Use `:host-context` selector for that purpose instead.
</div>
### :host-context
Sometimes it's useful to apply styles to elements within a component's template
based on some condition in an element that is an ancestor of the host element.
For example, a CSS theme class could be applied to the document `<body>` element, and
you want to change how your component looks based on that.
Use the `:host-context()` pseudo-class selector, which works just like the function
form of `:host()`. The `:host-context()` selector looks for a CSS class in any ancestor of the component host element,
up to the document root. The `:host-context()` selector is only useful when combined with another selector.
The following example italicizes all text inside a component, but only
if some _ancestor_ element of the host element has the CSS class `active`.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-details.component.css" region="hostcontext" header="src/app/hero-details.component.css"></code-example>
Note that only the host element and its descendants will be affected, not the ancestor with the assigned `active` class.
### (deprecated) `/deep/`, `>>>`, and `::ng-deep`
Component styles normally apply only to the HTML in the component's own template.
Applying the `::ng-deep` pseudo-class to any CSS rule completely disables view-encapsulation for
that rule. Any style with `::ng-deep` applied becomes a global style. In order to scope the specified style
to the current component and all its descendants, be sure to include the `:host` selector before
`::ng-deep`. If the `::ng-deep` combinator is used without the `:host` pseudo-class selector, the style
can bleed into other components.
The following example targets all `<h3>` elements, from the host element down
through this component to all of its child elements in the DOM.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-details.component.css" region="deep" header="src/app/hero-details.component.css"></code-example>
The `/deep/` combinator also has the aliases `>>>`, and `::ng-deep`.
<div class="alert is-important">
Use `/deep/`, `>>>` and `::ng-deep` only with *emulated* view encapsulation.
Emulated is the default and most commonly used view encapsulation. For more information, see the
[View Encapsulation](guide/view-encapsulation) section.
</div>
<div class="alert is-important">
The shadow-piercing descendant combinator is deprecated and [support is being removed from major browsers](https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6750456638341120) and tools.
As such we plan to drop support in Angular (for all 3 of `/deep/`, `>>>` and `::ng-deep`).
Until then `::ng-deep` should be preferred for a broader compatibility with the tools.
</div>
{@a loading-styles}
## Loading component styles
There are several ways to add styles to a component:
* By setting `styles` or `styleUrls` metadata.
* Inline in the template HTML.
* With CSS imports.
The scoping rules outlined earlier apply to each of these loading patterns.
### Styles in component metadata
Add a `styles` array property to the `@Component` decorator.
Each string in the array defines some CSS for this component.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-app.component.ts" header="src/app/hero-app.component.ts (CSS inline)">
</code-example>
<div class="alert is-critical">
Reminder: these styles apply _only to this component_.
They are _not inherited_ by any components nested within the template nor by any content projected into the component.
</div>
The Angular CLI command [`ng generate component`](cli/generate) defines an empty `styles` array when you create the component with the `--inline-style` flag.
<code-example language="sh">
ng generate component hero-app --inline-style
</code-example>
### Style files in component metadata
Load styles from external CSS files by adding a `styleUrls` property
to a component's `@Component` decorator:
<code-tabs>
<code-pane header="src/app/hero-app.component.ts (CSS in file)" path="component-styles/src/app/hero-app.component.1.ts"></code-pane>
<code-pane header="src/app/hero-app.component.css" path="component-styles/src/app/hero-app.component.css"></code-pane>
</code-tabs>
<div class="alert is-critical">
Reminder: the styles in the style file apply _only to this component_.
They are _not inherited_ by any components nested within the template nor by any content projected into the component.
</div>
<div class="alert is-helpful">
You can specify more than one styles file or even a combination of `styles` and `styleUrls`.
</div>
When you use the Angular CLI command [`ng generate component`](cli/generate) without the `--inline-style` flag, it creates an empty styles file for you and references that file in the component's generated `styleUrls`.
<code-example language="sh">
ng generate component hero-app
</code-example>
### Template inline styles
Embed CSS styles directly into the HTML template by putting them
inside `<style>` tags.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-controls.component.ts" region="inlinestyles" header="src/app/hero-controls.component.ts">
</code-example>
### Template link tags
You can also write `<link>` tags into the component's HTML template.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-team.component.ts" region="stylelink" header="src/app/hero-team.component.ts">
</code-example>
<div class="alert is-critical">
When building with the CLI, be sure to include the linked style file among the assets to be copied to the server as described in the [Assets configuration guide](guide/workspace-config#assets-configuration).
Once included, the CLI includes the stylesheet, whether the link tag's href URL is relative to the application root or the component file.
</div>
### CSS @imports
Import CSS files into the CSS files using the standard CSS `@import` rule.
For details, see [`@import`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/@import)
on the [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org) site.
In this case, the URL is relative to the CSS file into which you're importing.
<code-example path="component-styles/src/app/hero-details.component.css" region="import" header="src/app/hero-details.component.css (excerpt)">
</code-example>
### External and global style files
When building with the CLI, you must configure the `angular.json` to include _all external assets_, including external style files.
Register **global** style files in the `styles` section which, by default, is pre-configured with the global `styles.css` file.
See the [Styles configuration guide](guide/workspace-config#styles-and-scripts-configuration) to learn more.
### Non-CSS style files
If you're building with the CLI,
you can write style files in [sass](https://sass-lang.com/), or [less](http://lesscss.org/), and specify those files in the `@Component.styleUrls` metadata with the appropriate extensions (`.scss`, `.less`) as in the following example:
<code-example>
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss']
})
...
</code-example>
The CLI build process runs the pertinent CSS preprocessor.
When generating a component file with `ng generate component`, the CLI emits an empty CSS styles file (`.css`) by default.
Configure the CLI to default to your preferred CSS preprocessor as explained in the [Workspace configuration guide](guide/workspace-config#generation-schematics).
<div class="alert is-important">
Style strings added to the `@Component.styles` array _must be written in CSS_ because the CLI cannot apply a preprocessor to inline styles.
</div>
@reviewed 2021-09-17