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ListItem_Stylesheet.yaml

A list row: a headline, and room for more.

The look of ListItem (in Lists). How component stylesheets work.

The stylesheet

# ListItem: the look of each part of the component, by the part's id.
# A value in {{ }} is one of the component's parameters.
styles:
  - id: root
    style:
      width: "{{ width }}"
      height: 56
      align_content: left
      padding: 16
  - id: headline
    style:
      foreground: on_surface
      flex: expand_horizontal
      min_width: 0

How it is tied to the component

ListItem_Component.yaml holds the structure: the parts, each with an id. This file holds the look: each rule's id names a part, and its style is what that part looks like. When a view uses component: ListItem, Tesserae fills in the parameters (a value like "{{ width }}" becomes the width the view passed), picks a branch of any if:, and puts each rule under the style the part already has, so a part's own style: always wins.

The parts

root (Container)

Field Value What it does
width the width parameter Pixels, auto (its content's size, or stretched), or a percentage of the parent such as 50%.
height 56 Pixels, auto (its content's size, or stretched), or a percentage of the parent such as 50%.
align_content left Where its children sit: top_left, top, top_right, left, center, right, bottom_left, bottom or bottom_right. Not set, they fill the space across the layout.
padding 16 Space inside it: one number, or {left, right, top, bottom}.

headline (Text)

Field Value What it does
foreground on_surface Its text or glyph colour: a theme role, #RRGGBB, any CSS colour, or a gradient.
flex expand_horizontal How it takes room in its parent: none (the default) is as big as its content and never squeezed, expand_horizontal and expand_vertical take the room left over in that direction, fill both.
min_width 0 The least width it can take.

What it makes

With headline: Headline, width: 120, each part's style is:

root: {width: 120, height: 56, align_content: left, padding: 16}
headline: {foreground: on_surface, flex: expand_horizontal, min_width: 0}

Changing it

Put a ListItem_Stylesheet.yaml next to your views. Its rules go over this file's, field by field:

styles:
  - id: headline
    style: {foreground: tertiary}