Dependencies style

[davide.lissoni]

When an app is imported as dependency, the styling made on the components used by the dependency itself are lost.
Is it possibile to style the components of the dependency inside the app dependency without import the css on the principal project?

[stucork]

if you move both your projects over to using layouts this should work

to do this:

• open each app separately
• open any form
• click the three dots in the toolbar → use as layout
• confirm you want to migrate
• now click the three dots again and unclick the use as layout option

there are some subtle changes after the migration
one of which is dependency theme.css will be included in the main app

[yahiakalabs]

No way! This solves a chunk of my use cases from

Make all css files support anvil's theme color syntax

I have several use cases where I want to import a css file from another app, or a dependency app, or even within the app itself (changing the theme mid-app depending on the form). I want the color references in those css files to work. My main use case is importing the theme, with all the colors, from a dependency app into my main app. I figured out how to do this with a workaround described in the post linked above. However, it requires a lot of changes to my dependency app (including break…