`@carbon/styles`

Overview

The @carbon/styles package provides the Sass files needed to include every style for the Carbon Design System. It includes entrypoints for themes, tokens, CSS helpers, components, and more.

Files

The following is a table of all files that are available to use. While there may be additional files that you can import from directly within the package, these are the public entrypoints that are maintained and follow semantic versioning between version updates.

File	Description
`scss/breakpoint`	Helper functions and mixins for working with breakpoints
`scss/colors`	Access colors from every swatch in the IBM Design Language
`scss/compat/`	Helper themes and tokens for migrating from v10 to v11
`scss/config`	Configure various options for the package
`scss/feature-flags`	Configure various feature flags for experiments
`scss/font-face`	Configure the IBM Plex font and languages
`scss/grid`	Access and use the CSS Grid built-in to Carbon
`scss/motion`	Helper function, mixins, and tokens for motion
`scss/reset`	A CSS Reset
`scss/spacing`	Variables for the spacing scale
`scss/theme`	Tokens for the current theme
`scss/themes`	Reference the default themes from the Carbon Design System
`scss/type`	Type tokens and helpers
`scss/components/`	A directory containing component styles
`scss/utilities/`	A directory containing common CSS utilities

Breakpoint

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/breakpoint';`	`scss/_breakpoint.scss`

Colors

The colors package will give you access to each swatch from the IBM Design Language. You can refer to any color by its swatch and grade.

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/colors';

.my-selector {
  background-color: colors.$blue-50;
}

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/colors';`	`scss/_colors.scss`

To see all the colors available to be imported, checkout our colors docs.

Config

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/config';`	`scss/_config.scss`

Feature Flags

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/feature-flags';`	`scss/_feature-flags.scss`

Font Face

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/font-face';`	`scss/_font-face.scss`

Using IBM Plex

By default, IBM Plex will be emitted when importing via the @carbon/styles main entrypoint or referencing the font-face file directly. If you do not want the font-face declarations to be emitted, you can set the css--font-face token to false:

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/config' with (
  $css--font-face: false,
);

Grid

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/grid';`	`scss/grid/_index.scss`
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/grid/flexbox';`	`scss/grid/_flexbox.scss`

Using the grid

This package @forwards the styles defined in the @carbon/grid package. For full documentation, visit the Sass Documentation for the package.

To use the grid via @carbon/styles, it must be brought in directly or the grid specific style sheet must be imported:

// All the grid styles are included through this central entrypoint
@use '@carbon/styles';

// Alternatively, the grid styles can be brought in on their own
@use '@carbon/styles/scss/grid';

By default, the emitted grid will be a CSS Grid based implementation. If you prefer to use flexbox version, you can configure the package by writing the following:

@use '@carbon/styles' with (
  $use-flexbox-grid: true,
);

Or you can import the flexbox grid directly:

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/grid/flexbox';

Classes provided

In either case, you will then have access to the grid classes and mixins available to build with the grid. There are two primitive class types to use in order to structure your application. They include:

.#{$prefix}--css-grid - defines the overall grid context and sets some useful attributes like width and margin
.#{$prefix}--col-span-* - used to define individual columns

Additional class types are available for advanced usages such as subgrids, offset, alignment utilities, and breakpoint helpers to configure the grid at different viewport widths. For further information on these and others, see the @carbon/grid package.

As an example, here's how a 4 column grid could be configured with the default prefix:

<div class="cds--css-grid">
  <div class="cds--col-span-4"></div>
  <div class="cds--col-span-4"></div>
  <div class="cds--col-span-4"></div>
  <div class="cds--col-span-4"></div>
</div>

Motion

The motion package provides helper functions, mixins, and duration tokens to add motion into your project.

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/motion' as *;

.my-selector {
  transition: transform $duration-fast-02 motion(standard, productive);
}

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/motion';`	`scss/_motion.scss`

For more information, checkout our motion docs.

Reset

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/reset';`	`scss/_reset.scss`

Spacing

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/spacing';`	`scss/_spacing.scss`

Themes

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/themes';`	`scss/_themes.scss`

This entrypoint re-exports the themes entrypoint from the @carbon/themes. it provides access to the theme variables built for the Carbon Design System.

These theme variables can be used in the following way:

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/themes';

// themes.$white
// themes.$g10
// themes.$g90
// themes.$g100

Theme

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/theme';`	`scss/_theme.scss`

This entrypoint re-exports the theme entrypoint from the @carbon/themes. This entrypoint exports all of the design tokens as Sass Variables, as well as helpers for you to interact with the theme.

To use a design token from this entrypoint, you can include the filepath and reference it as a variable.

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/theme';

body {
  background: theme.$background;
}

The value of the theme.$background token is a CSS Custom Property. For example, theme.$background would have the value var(--cds-background). To get the value of a token, you will need to use the theme.get function described below.

For a full list of tokens available, check out our themes documentation.

There are also some helpers that you can use from this entrypoint. These include:

theme.get to get access to the value of a token from the theme
theme.extend to extend the current theme with new values

You can use these in the following way:

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/theme';

@include theme.extend(
  (
    custom-token: #000000,
  )
);

.my-selector {
  background: rgba(theme.get('custom-token'), 0.1);
}

Configuration

The @carbon/styles/scss/theme entrypoint can be configured with the following options:

$theme to set the current theme
$fallback to set the fallback theme. This value is used to get values of tokens if they are not defined in the current $theme

Type

The type package entrypoint allows you to specifically bring type tokens into your project. The type package includes various type tokens and mixins.

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/type';

.my-selector {
  @include type.type-style('productive-heading-01');
}

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/type';`	`scss/_type.scss`

For more information, check out our type docs.

Components

All of the styles for the components in the Carbon Design System live in the scss/components directory. You can include all of the styles for a component by including its entrypoint file. For a full list of component styles that you can import, check out the files table below.

Component tokens

In some situations, you may want to change the tokens for a specific component. To do so you will need to configure the module and provide the tokens you would like to see changed. For example, if you wanted to change the component token button-separator for button you would do the following:

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/components/button' with (
  $button-separator: #e4e4e4,
);

Files

Component	Import	File
Accordion	`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/components/accordion';`	`scss/components/accordion`

Utilities

Files

Import	Description
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/utilities/focus-outline';`

Compatibility

Import	Filepath
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/compat/themes';`	`scss/compat/_themes.scss`
`@use '@carbon/styles/scss/compat/theme';`	`scss/compat/_theme.scss`

The compatibility entrypoints for themes and theme provide access to the v10 tokens along with the v11 tokens. To make sure that the tokens that you're using from v10 have the correct value in v11, you will need to include the theme that you're using from scss/compat/themes and set that as your theme.

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/compat/themes' as compat;
@use '@carbon/styles/scss/compat/theme' with (
  $theme: compat.$g100,
);

It's important that you specify the $fallback theme as a value from the scss/themes entrypoint. This will guarantee that all tokens that you are using from v11 will match the theme of the tokens that you are using from v10.

You can directly reference a token from the scss/compat/theme entrypoint. This entrypoint will also re-export all available v11 tokens and mixins from scss/theme.

@use '@carbon/styles/scss/compat/theme';

body {
  // You can use both v10 and v11 tokens
  background: theme.$background;
  color: theme.$text-01;
}

Note: all tokens from v10 are deprecated in v11. They will be removed in the next major release of Carbon

Configuration

You will need to configure Sass to be able to lookup packages from your node_modules folder. To do this, use the includePaths option and set its value to an array of locations where Sass should look to find node_modules folders.

For most teams, this configuration will look like:

{
  "includePaths": ["node_modules"]
}

For bundler specific solutions, check out the sections below for your bundler of choice. If you can't find what you're looking for, please make an issue and we'll try to get instructions for it added!

`sass-loader`

Link

Update your webpack.config.js that uses sass-loader with the following options passed into sassOptions:

{
  loader: 'sass-loader',
  options: {
    sassOptions: {
      includePaths: ['node_modules'],
    },
  },
}

Parcel

Link

Create a .sassrc file with the following configuration:

{
  "includePaths": ["node_modules"]
}

Vite

Link

Create a vite.config.js file with the following configuration:

export default {
  css: {
    preprocessorOptions: {
      scss: {
        includePaths: ['node_modules'],
      },
    },
  },
};

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Table of Contents

Overview

Files

Breakpoint

Colors

Config

Feature Flags

Font Face

Using IBM Plex

Grid

Using the grid

Classes provided

Motion

Reset

Spacing

Themes

Theme

Type

Components

Utilities

Compatibility

Configuration

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Parcel

Vite

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