Please allow styling of event colors with css variables by switching to ngStyle

[RobertProvencal]

Hi Matthew

Would it be possible to switch the css attribute used for styling an event color and border to use the angular notation? Doing this would allow an end-user to leverage css variables and make our css less hard coded.

For example within the calendar-week-view-event-component.ts, you will find
<div class="cal-event" [style.backgroundColor]="weekEvent.event.color?.secondary" [style.borderColor]="weekEvent.event.color?.primary" ....

Ideally, we would like to see:
<div class="cal-event" [ngStyle.backgroundColor]="weekEvent.event.color?.secondary" [ngStyle.borderColor]="weekEvent.event.color?.primary" ...

This would allow us to change our css file from say:

Blue: { primary: '#89CFF0', // --nw-color-spectrum-blue-light secondary: '#B3F0FE' // --nw-color-brand-1 }
to:

Blue: { primary: 'var(--nw-color-spectrum-blue-light)', secondary: 'var(--nw-color-brand-1)' }
Does that make sense? Please let me know if you need additional info.

Thanks,
Robert.

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Versions

• angular-calendar:
• Browser name and version: Chrome v71

[mattlewis92]

Hey, apologies for the late reply, I tried to do [ngStyle.backgroundColor]="weekEvent.event.color?.secondary" but it doesn't seem to work. I checked and it doesn't seem like angular has any support for CSS variables: angular/angular#9343 I'd love to support them though, if you know of a way that we could support them easily?

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[gtoroptsev]

Hey, apologies for the late reply, I tried to do [ngStyle.backgroundColor]="weekEvent.event.color?.secondary" but it doesn't seem to work. I checked and it doesn't seem like angular has any support for CSS variables: angular/angular#9343 I'd love to support them though, if you know of a way that we could support them easily?

Hi Matthew,
Please try this code, it allows to set background color without angular sanitize console error

[ngStyle]="{'background': weekEvent.event.color?.secondary}"

[mattlewis92]

It doesn't work for me: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-fzjdae?file=demo/template.html Can you show me an example of it working?

[gtoroptsev]

It doesn't work for me: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-fzjdae?file=demo/template.html Can you show me an example of it working?

https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-fzjdae-xrmgys?file=demo%2Ftemplate.html

at first we define css variables in styles.css

:host { --blue-primary: #1e90ff; --blue-secondary: #D1E8FF; }

then assign them to colors object (wrapped in var())

const colors: any = { blue: { primary: 'var(--blue-primary)', secondary: 'var(--blue-secondary)' } };

and last step is to assign colors obj properties to our dom element

[ngStyle]="{ 'color': colors.blue.primary, 'background-color': colors.blue.secondary }">

I think it will be useful in projects with multiple themes - just save css variables of calendar event objects
or in case if designer apply color palette updates we don't need to apply db migrations etc.

[mattlewis92]

Ahhh, I see what I was doing wrong now, I missed off the var() surrounding the variable name, ok this should be doable!

[mattlewis92]

Fixed in 0.27.2 🎉

[gtoroptsev]

Fixed in 0.27.2 🎉

thank you, it works now!