Am trying upgrade my project from angular JS to angular 4. I have style sheets which i have used in angular JS project.
This is my folder structure
I created components using angular CLI.
Everything works perfect but i don't know how to use my styles in angular 4 project.
Can some one explain how i can use my styles globally? and also only in certain components?
You can add your styles within the angular-cli.json
:
"styles": [
// Your styles go here
]
This is for global styles. Local styles (for a certain component) are within the accordant CSS-file, which belongs to your component, e.g. foo.component.css. By default each component has the following annotation:
@Component({
selector: 'app-foo',
templateUrl: './foo.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./foo.component.css'],
})
So, foo.component.css contains the CSS for the component FooComponent
.
Take a look here:
- Component Styles
- Global styles
Apart from adding the css file to angular-cli.json as shown by @pzaenger you can also add it to index.html page of your app as shown below :-
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
OR
you can even import it into an existing CSS file in your app by adding the @import statement at the top of that file as shown below :-
@import "~bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css";
This way you can also add CDN links of the CSS file which cannot be done in angular-cli.json file. You can find a more elaborated explanation at this link.