What is the proper/accepted way to use separate stylesheets for the various views my application uses?
Currently I'm placing a link element in the view/partial's html at the top but I've been told this is bad practice even though all modern browsers support it but I can see why it's frowned upon.
The other possibility is placing the separate stylesheets in my index.html's head but I would like it to only load the stylesheet if its view is being loaded in the name of performance.
Is this bad practice since styling won't take effect until after the css is loaded form the server, leading to a quick flash of unformatted content in a slow browser? I have yet to witness this although I'm testing it locally.
Is there a way to load the CSS through the object passed to Angular's $routeProvider.when?
Thanks in advance!
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Could append a new stylesheet to head within $routeProvider. For simplicity am using a string but could create new link element also, or create a service for stylesheets
/* check if already exists first - note ID used on link element*/
/* could also track within scope object*/
if( !angular.element('link#myViewName').length){
angular.element('head').append('<link id="myViewName" href="myViewName.css" rel="stylesheet">');
}
Biggest benefit of prelaoding in page is any background images will already exist, and less lieklyhood of FOUC
@tennisgent's solution is great. However, I think is a little limited.
Modularity and Encapsulation in Angular goes beyond routes. Based on the way the web is moving towards component-based development, it is important to apply this in directives as well.
As you already know, in Angular we can include templates (structure) and controllers (behavior) in pages and components. AngularCSS enables the last missing piece: attaching stylesheets (presentation).
For a full solution I suggest using AngularCSS.
ng-app in the <html> tag. This is important when you have multiple apps running on the same pagehttps://github.com/door3/angular-css
Here are some examples:
Routes
$routeProvider
.when('/page1', {
templateUrl: 'page1/page1.html',
controller: 'page1Ctrl',
/* Now you can bind css to routes */
css: 'page1/page1.css'
})
.when('/page2', {
templateUrl: 'page2/page2.html',
controller: 'page2Ctrl',
/* You can also enable features like bust cache, persist and preload */
css: {
href: 'page2/page2.css',
bustCache: true
}
})
.when('/page3', {
templateUrl: 'page3/page3.html',
controller: 'page3Ctrl',
/* This is how you can include multiple stylesheets */
css: ['page3/page3.css','page3/page3-2.css']
})
.when('/page4', {
templateUrl: 'page4/page4.html',
controller: 'page4Ctrl',
css: [
{
href: 'page4/page4.css',
persist: true
}, {
href: 'page4/page4.mobile.css',
/* Media Query support via window.matchMedia API
* This will only add the stylesheet if the breakpoint matches */
media: 'screen and (max-width : 768px)'
}, {
href: 'page4/page4.print.css',
media: 'print'
}
]
});
Directives
myApp.directive('myDirective', function () {
return {
restrict: 'E',
templateUrl: 'my-directive/my-directive.html',
css: 'my-directive/my-directive.css'
}
});
Additionally, you can use the $css service for edge cases:
myApp.controller('pageCtrl', function ($scope, $css) {
// Binds stylesheet(s) to scope create/destroy events (recommended over add/remove)
$css.bind({
href: 'my-page/my-page.css'
}, $scope);
// Simply add stylesheet(s)
$css.add('my-page/my-page.css');
// Simply remove stylesheet(s)
$css.remove(['my-page/my-page.css','my-page/my-page2.css']);
// Remove all stylesheets
$css.removeAll();
});
You can read more about AngularCSS here:
http://door3.com/insights/introducing-angularcss-css-demand-angularjs
@sz3, funny enough today I had to do exactly what you were trying to achieve: 'load a specific CSS file only when a user access' a specific page. So I used the solution above.
But I am here to answer your last question: 'where exactly should I put the code. Any ideas?'
You were right including the code into the resolve, but you need to change a bit the format.
Take a look at the code below:
.when('/home', {
title:'Home - ' + siteName,
bodyClass: 'home',
templateUrl: function(params) {
return 'views/home.html';
},
controler: 'homeCtrl',
resolve: {
style : function(){
/* check if already exists first - note ID used on link element*/
/* could also track within scope object*/
if( !angular.element('link#mobile').length){
angular.element('head').append('<link id="home" href="home.css" rel="stylesheet">');
}
}
}
})
I've just tested and it's working fine, it injects the html and it loads my 'home.css' only when I hit the '/home' route.
Full explanation can be found here, but basically resolve: should get an object in the format
{
'key' : string or function()
}
You can name the 'key' anything you like - in my case I called 'style'.
Then for the value you have two options:
If it's a string, then it is an alias for a service.
If it's function, then it is injected and the return value is treated as the dependency.
The main point here is that the code inside the function is going to be executed before before the controller is instantiated and the $routeChangeSuccess event is fired.
Hope that helps.
Awesome, thank you!! Just had to make a few adjustments to get it working with ui-router:
var app = app || angular.module('app', []);
app.directive('head', ['$rootScope', '$compile', '$state', function ($rootScope, $compile, $state) {
return {
restrict: 'E',
link: function ($scope, elem, attrs, ctrls) {
var html = '<link rel="stylesheet" ng-repeat="(routeCtrl, cssUrl) in routeStyles" ng-href="{{cssUrl}}" />';
var el = $compile(html)($scope)
elem.append(el);
$scope.routeStyles = {};
function applyStyles(state, action) {
var sheets = state ? state.css : null;
if (state.parent) {
var parentState = $state.get(state.parent)
applyStyles(parentState, action);
}
if (sheets) {
if (!Array.isArray(sheets)) {
sheets = [sheets];
}
angular.forEach(sheets, function (sheet) {
action(sheet);
});
}
}
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function (event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
applyStyles(fromState, function(sheet) {
delete $scope.routeStyles[sheet];
console.log('>> remove >> ', sheet);
});
applyStyles(toState, function(sheet) {
$scope.routeStyles[sheet] = sheet;
console.log('>> add >> ', sheet);
});
});
}
}
}]);
'use strict'; angular.module('app') .run( [ '$rootScope', '$state', '$stateParams', function($rootScope, $state, $stateParams) { $rootScope.$state = $state; $rootScope.$stateParams = $stateParams; } ] ) .config( [ '$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider
.otherwise('/app/dashboard');
$stateProvider
.state('app', {
abstract: true,
url: '/app',
templateUrl: 'views/layout.html'
})
.state('app.dashboard', {
url: '/dashboard',
templateUrl: 'views/dashboard.html',
ncyBreadcrumb: {
label: 'Dashboard',
description: ''
},
resolve: {
deps: [
'$ocLazyLoad',
function($ocLazyLoad) {
return $ocLazyLoad.load({
serie: true,
files: [
'lib/jquery/charts/sparkline/jquery.sparkline.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/easypiechart/jquery.easypiechart.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.resize.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.pie.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.tooltip.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.orderBars.js',
'app/controllers/dashboard.js',
'app/directives/realtimechart.js'
]
});
}
]
}
})
.state('ram', {
abstract: true,
url: '/ram',
templateUrl: 'views/layout-ram.html'
})
.state('ram.dashboard', {
url: '/dashboard',
templateUrl: 'views/dashboard-ram.html',
ncyBreadcrumb: {
label: 'test'
},
resolve: {
deps: [
'$ocLazyLoad',
function($ocLazyLoad) {
return $ocLazyLoad.load({
serie: true,
files: [
'lib/jquery/charts/sparkline/jquery.sparkline.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/easypiechart/jquery.easypiechart.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.resize.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.pie.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.tooltip.js',
'lib/jquery/charts/flot/jquery.flot.orderBars.js',
'app/controllers/dashboard.js',
'app/directives/realtimechart.js'
]
});
}
]
}
})
);
If you only need your CSS to be applied to one specific view, I'm using this handy snippet inside my controller:
$("body").addClass("mystate");
$scope.$on("$destroy", function() {
$("body").removeClass("mystate");
});
This will add a class to my body tag when the state loads, and remove it when the state is destroyed (i.e. someone changes pages). This solves my related problem of only needing CSS to be applied to one state in my application.
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