I'm new to Gatsby so this may be silly question but here goes. I'm building a site with some pages created from markdown with createPages API all setup and working as it should but I have a question around styling.
I have few pages in the main navbar and I'd like to style each with a different colour just to differentiate between them. Is there a way to do this? If so how? This is the template I setup to create the pages:
import React from 'react'
import Layout from '../layouts/baselayout'
import { graphql } from 'gatsby'
const pagesTemplate = ({ data }) => {
const page = data.markdownRemark
return (
<Layout>
<div> <-- add something here to change colour?? -->
<h2 style={{ textTransform: `uppercase` }}>{page.frontmatter.title}</h2>
<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: page.html }} />
</div>
</Layout>
)
}
export default pagesTemplate
export const query = graphql`
query($slug: String!) {
markdownRemark(fields: { slug: { eq: $slug } }) {
html
frontmatter {
title
}
}
}
`
Would I need to create separate layouts? Or could I use some JS to say if page title is home color:red
if contact color: blue
etc
On a separate note has anyone ever used Tailwind with Gatsby?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Top comments (10)
You can do stuff like this using React CSS:
<div style={{backgroundColor: "red"}}></div>
Thanks for the reply. Yep I thought that but it will still change every page and I'd like a different colour for each one if possible. Would I need separate layout templates?
Maybe something like this would work:
And then have a function:
I was thinking something like that just wasn't sure if it would work. I will give a whirl thanks. ๐
For a something more complex, I would consider emotion, but I am starting to hate it, because of lack of Preact support.
Yeah I'm a bit confused about how to do CSS in JS for Preact too! Although I think Preact lets you use React libraries via some sort of compatibility tooling/setting, right?
I've never used preact (not sure what it is...) so not worried about that I considered something like emotion reading docs seems like it would work but overkill for a bit of styling... Changing colours really isn't that complicated.. At least it shouldn't be.
Yeah I think doing inline styles is totally fine in this scenario but if you're planning on doing a lot of styling across your blog something like styled-components or emotion makes life a little bit easier (for me at least!)
Yep makes sense I may look into that at a later date so good to know. Thanks.
Gatsby works perfect with the styled components library styled-components.com/
Answering your question above: if you want to create a div with specified styles, you can create a Div component
Where instead of ' ' you use
` `
but I can't apply this in the comment:/And then you pass
<Div>...</Div>
instead of simple<div>...</div>
The other way is to use CSS modules gatsbyjs.org/docs/css-modules/
And you can also just style by className. Yes, that' so simple
I hope I could help ๐ฅ