MenuItem_Stylesheet.yaml

One choice in a menu.

The look of MenuItem (in Menus). How component stylesheets work.

The stylesheet

# MenuItem: 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: "{{ height }}"
      align_content: left
      padding: "{{ padding }}"
  - id: label
    style:
      foreground: on_surface
      flex: expand_horizontal
      min_width: 0

How it is tied to the component

MenuItem_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: MenuItem, 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	the height parameter	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	the padding parameter	Space inside it: one number, or {left, right, top, bottom}.

label (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 label: Go, width: 120, height: 40, each part's style is:

root: {width: 120, height: 40, align_content: left, padding: 16}
label: {foreground: on_surface, flex: expand_horizontal, min_width: 0}

Changing it

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

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