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Web Development with Blazor

You're reading from   Web Development with Blazor A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241494
Length 360 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Blazor 2. Creating Your First Blazor App FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing State – Part 1 4. Understanding Basic Blazor Components 5. Creating Advanced Blazor Components 6. Building Forms with Validation 7. Creating an API 8. Authentication and Authorization 9. Sharing Code and Resources 10. JavaScript Interop 11. Managing State – Part 2 12. Debugging the Code 13. Testing 14. Deploy to Production 15. Moving from, or Combining, an Existing Site 16. Going Deeper into WebAssembly 17. Examining Source Generators 18. Visiting .NET MAUI 19. Where to Go from Here 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

CSS isolation

In .NET 5, Microsoft added something called isolated CSS. This is something that many other frameworks have as well. The idea is to write CSS specifically for one component. The upsides, of course, are that the CSS that we create won't impact any of the other components.

The template for Blazor uses isolated CSS for Components/Shared/MainLayout.razor and NavMenu.Razor. If we expand MainLayout.razor in we'll see a file called MainLayout.razor.css.

We can also use SASS here by adding a file called MainLayout.razor.scss. The important thing is that the file we add should generate a file called MainLayout.razor.css in order for the compiler to pick it up.

This is a naming convention that will make sure to rewrite CSS and the HTML output.

CSS has the following naming convention:

main {
    flex: 1;
}

It will be rewritten as follows:

main[b-bfl5h5967n] {
    flex: 1;
}

This means that the elements need to have an attribute called b-bfl5h5967n (in this case) in order...

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