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Learning Angular, Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Learning Angular, Fourth Edition A no-nonsense guide to building web applications with Angular 15

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240602
Length 446 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Pablo Deeleman Pablo Deeleman
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Aristeidis Bampakos Aristeidis Bampakos
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Your First Angular Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to TypeScript 3. Organizing Application into Modules 4. Enabling User Experience with Components 5. Enrich Applications Using Pipes and Directives 6. Managing Complex Tasks with Services 7. Being Reactive Using Observables and RxJS 8. Communicating with Data Services over HTTP 9. Navigating through Application with Routing 10. Collecting User Data with Forms 11. Introduction to Angular Material 12. Unit Test an Angular Application 13. Bringing an Application to Production 14. Handling Errors and Application Debugging 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Encapsulating CSS styling

We can define CSS styling within our components to better encapsulate our code and make it more reusable. In the Creating our first component section, we learned how to define CSS styles for a component using an external CSS file through the styleUrls property, or by defining CSS styles inside the TypeScript component file with the styles property.

The usual rules of CSS specificity govern both ways:

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity

CSS management and specificity become a breeze on browsers that support Shadow DOM, thanks to scoped styling. CSS styles apply to the elements contained in the component, but they do not spread beyond their boundaries.

On top of that, Angular embeds style sheets at the head of a document so that they may affect other elements of our application. To prevent this from happening, we can set up different levels of view encapsulation.

View encapsulation...

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