lit-css-var

lit-css-var decorator

@decorator to bind litElement property to a css variable 💅

import {LitElement, html, css, customElement} from 'lit-element';
import {cssVar} from 'lit-css-var';

@customElement('my-component')
class MyComponent extends LitElement {

  @cssVar() buttonColor = 'red';

  static styles = [css`
    button {
      background-color: var(--buttonColor);
    }
  `];

  render () {
    return html`
      <button @click="${() => this.buttonColor = this.buttonColor === 'red' ? 'blue' : 'red'}">
        button color: ${this.buttonColor}
      </button>
    `;
  }
}

Demo

Installation

npm i lit-css-var

As this feature currently support only @decorator nutation, it most be used with a transpiler supporting decorators.

For babel use @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators in your .babelrc config file.

Usage

// component.js
import {cssVar} from 'lit-css-var';
...
@cssVar() <cssVarName> = <initialValue>
...
  css`
    <cssProperty>: var(--<cssVarName>);
  `]; 

Options

Decorate can get options object with following properties:

• observeCss boolean. default false. When true css-var decorator will become 2-way databining and update the element property when the css var was changed. It's recommend to avoid this option as it can cause performance issues.