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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion packages/@react-spectrum/s2/style/index.ts
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export function iconStyle(this: MacroContext | void, options: IconStyle): StyleString<Exclude<keyof IconStyle, 'color' | 'size'>> {
let {size = 'M', color, ...styles} = options;

if (color) {
styles['--iconPrimary'] = {
type: 'fill',
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</ListBoxItem>
```

## Style macro

If you want to build custom components that follow Spectrum design tokens and styling, you can use the [style macro](../s2/styling.html) from React Spectrum. The `style` macro is a build-time CSS generator that provides type safe access to Spectrum 2 design tokens including colors, spacing, sizing, and typography.

```tsx
import {Checkbox} from 'react-aria-components';
import {style} from '@react-spectrum/s2/style' with {type: 'macro'};

<Checkbox
className={style({
backgroundColor: {
default: 'gray-100',
isHovered: 'gray-200',
isSelected: 'gray-900'
}
})}
/>
```

## Animation

React Aria Components supports both [CSS transitions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_transitions/Using_CSS_transitions) and [keyframe animations](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@keyframes), and works with JavaScript animation libraries like [Framer Motion](https://www.framer.com/motion/).
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For those reviewing this page, compare the current experience with the old: https://reactspectrum.blob.core.windows.net/reactspectrum/5084b6bfa7066fbe90e520c9575422bf0df27dd0/s2-docs/s2/styling.html

In particular the organization/existence of subpage/contents, open to opinions as to which is preferred

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Expand Up @@ -3,15 +3,20 @@ import {InlineAlert, Heading, Content, Link} from '@react-spectrum/s2';
import {S2Colors} from '../../src/S2Colors';
import {S2Typography} from '../../src/S2Typography';
import {S2StyleProperties} from '../../src/S2StyleProperties';
import {S2FAQ} from '../../src/S2FAQ';
export default Layout;

export const section = 'Guides';
export const tags = ['style', 'macro', 'spectrum', 'custom'];
export const description = 'Styling in React Spectrum';
export const relatedPages = [
{title: 'Advanced', url: './styling/advanced.html'},
{title: 'Reference Table', url: './styling/reference.html'}
];

# Styling

React Spectrum includes a build-time style macro that generates atomic CSS and lets you apply Spectrum tokens directly in your components with type-safe autocompletion.
React Spectrum includes a build-time `style` macro that generates atomic CSS and lets you apply Spectrum tokens directly in your components with type-safe autocompletion.

## Style macro

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- Develop more efficiently – no switching files or writing selectors.
- Refactor with confidence – changes are isolated; deleting a component removes its styles.

<InlineAlert variant="informative">
<Heading>Important Note</Heading>
<Content>
Due to the atomic nature of the generated CSS rules, it is strongly recommended that you follow the best practices listed [below](#css-optimization).
Failure to do so can result in large number of duplicate rules and obtuse styling bugs.
</Content>
</InlineAlert>
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Maybe overkill, but it felt like it was important to mention this up front so people realize that this is important


## Spectrum components

The `styles` prop accepts a limited set of CSS properties, including layout, spacing, sizing, and positioning. Other styles such as colors and internal padding cannot be customized within Spectrum components.
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'visibility'
]} />

### UNSAFE Style Overrides

We highly discourage overriding the styles of React Spectrum components because it may break at any time when we change our implementation, making it difficult for you to update in the future. Consider using [React Aria Components](https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/) with our style macro to build a custom component with Spectrum styles instead.

With that being said, the `UNSAFE_className` and `UNSAFE_style` props are supported on Spectrum 2 components as last-resort escape hatches.

```tsx
/* YourComponent.tsx */
import {Button} from '@react-spectrum/s2';
import './YourComponent.css';

function YourComponent() {
return <Button UNSAFE_className="your-unsafe-class">Button</Button>;
}
```

```css
/* YourComponent.css */
.your-unsafe-class {
background: red;
}
```

## Values

The `style` macro supports a constrained set of values per property that conform to Spectrum 2. This improves consistency and maintainability.
The `style` macro supports a constrained set of values per property that conform to Spectrum 2. This improves consistency and maintainability. See the [reference](./styling/reference.html) page for a full list of available style macro properties.

### Colors

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### Typography

Spectrum 2 typography is applied via the `font` shorthand, which sets `fontFamily`, `fontSize`, `fontWeight`, `lineHeight`, and `color`. You can override any of these individually.
Note that you should always specify the `font` at the element level, setting it globally is insufficient since this will often differ per component.

```tsx
<main>
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<InlineAlert variant="notice">
<Heading>Important Note</Heading>
<Content>
Only use `<Heading>` and `<Text>` inside Spectrum components with predefined styles (e.g., `<Dialog>`, `<MenuItem>`). They are unstyled by default and should not be used standalone. Use HTML elements with the style macro instead.
Only use `<Heading>` and `<Text>` inside Spectrum components with predefined styles (e.g., `<Dialog>`, `<MenuItem>`). They are unstyled by default and should not be used standalone. Use HTML elements with the `style` macro instead.
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The typography section should also explain that you're expected to specify the font everywhere, we do not set it at a global level any longer
people have gotten confused on this point
I'll send a link in slack for one of the discussions

</Content>
</InlineAlert>

## Conditional styles

Define conditional values as objects to handle media queries, UI states (hover/press), and variants. This keeps all values for a property together.

```tsx
<div
className={style({
padding: {
default: 8,
lg: 32
}
})}
/>
```

Conditions are mutually exclusive and ordered. The macro uses CSS cascade layers so the last matching condition wins without specificity issues.

### Runtime conditions
### Breakpoints

When runtime conditions are detected (e.g., variants, UI states), the macro returns a function to resolve styles at runtime.

```tsx
import {style} from '@react-spectrum/s2/style' with {type: 'macro'};

const styles = style({
backgroundColor: {
variant: {
primary: 'accent',
secondary: 'neutral'
}
}
});

function MyComponent({variant}: {variant: 'primary' | 'secondary'}) {
return <div className={styles({variant})} />
}
```

Boolean conditions starting with `is` can be used directly without nesting:

```tsx
const styles = style({
backgroundColor: {
default: 'gray-100',
isSelected: 'gray-900'
}
});

<div className={styles({isSelected: true})} />
```

Runtime conditions work well with render props in React Aria Components. If you inline styles, you’ll get autocomplete for available conditions.

```tsx
import {Checkbox} from 'react-aria-components';
import {style} from '@react-spectrum/s2/style' with {type: 'macro'};

<Checkbox
className={style({
backgroundColor: {
default: 'gray-100',
isHovered: 'gray-200',
isSelected: 'gray-900'
}
})}
/>
```

### Nesting conditions

Nest conditions to apply styles when multiple conditions are true. Conditions at the same level are mutually exclusive; order determines precedence.

```tsx
const styles = style({
backgroundColor: {
default: 'gray-25',
isSelected: {
default: 'neutral',
isEmphasized: 'accent',
forcedColors: 'Highlight',
isDisabled: {
default: 'gray-400',
forcedColors: 'GrayText'
}
}
}
});

<div className={styles({isSelected, isEmphasized, isDisabled})} />
```

## Reusing styles

Extract common styles into constants and spread them into `style` calls. These must be in the same file or imported from another file as a macro.

```tsx
const horizontalStack = {
display: 'flex',
alignItems: 'center',
columnGap: 8
} as const;

const styles = style({
...horizontalStack,
columnGap: 4
});
```

Create custom utilities by defining your own macros.

```ts
// style-utils.ts
export function horizontalStack(gap: number) {
return {
display: 'flex',
alignItems: 'center',
columnGap: gap
} as const;
}
```

Usage:

```tsx
// component.tsx
import {horizontalStack} from './style-utils' with {type: 'macro'};
import {style} from '@react-spectrum/s2/style' with {type: 'macro'};

const styles = style({
...horizontalStack(4),
backgroundColor: 'base'
});
```

### Built-in utilities

Use `focusRing()` to add the standard Spectrum focus ring.

```tsx
"use client";
import {style, focusRing} from '@react-spectrum/s2/style' with {type: 'macro'};
import {Button} from '@react-spectrum/s2';

const buttonStyle = style({
...focusRing(),
// ...other styles
});

<Button styles={buttonStyle}>Press me</Button>
```
The style macro has several predefined [breakpoints](./styling/reference.html#conditions), but you can use arbitrary CSS media or container queries as [conditional values](./styling/advanced.html#conditional-styles) in your style macro as well.

## CSS optimization
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optimization sounds so optional

maybe it'd be better to structure all bundler setups into their own page which includes how the optimization setup works, but then it all sounds much more mandatory

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happy for the team to weigh in here then, especially since it would fall within the changes made in #9126


The style macro relies on CSS bundling and minification for optimal output. Follow these best practices:
The `style` macro relies on CSS bundling and minification for optimal output. Follow these best practices:

- Ensure styles are extracted into a CSS bundle; do not inject at runtime with `<style>` tags.
- Use a CSS minifier like `lightningcss` to deduplicate common rules (consider in dev for easier debugging).
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/* App.css */
@layer reset, _;
@import "reset.css" layer(reset);
```
```

## Developing with style macros

Since `style` macros are quite different from using `className`/`style` directly, many may find it initially challenging to debug and develop against.
Below are some useful tools that may benefit your developer experience:

- The [atomic-css-devtools](https://github.com/astahmer/atomic-css-devtools) extension presents an inspected element's atomic CSS rules
in a non-atomic format, making it easier to scan.
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todo: replace with the new devtool extension @snowystinger is making


- This [sandbox](https://codesandbox.io/p/devbox/react-spectrum-s2-style-macro-template-h6fpsq) is preconfigured to support React Spectrum S2, React Aria Components, and
the `style` macros for quick prototyping.

- If you are using Cursor, we offer a set of [Cursor rules](https://github.com/adobe/react-spectrum/blob/main/rules/style-macro.mdc) to use when developing with style macros. Additionally,
we have MCP servers for [React Aria](../react-aria/mcp.html) and [React Spectrum](./mcp.html) respectively that interface with the docs.

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could we make use of disclosures here? (but maybe a follow-up if it takes too long to style and what not)

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thats a good suggestion, I was a bit torn on if the current style was better or now (inspired by our own FAQ in github) but I've definitely seen both styles on other sites like MUI and Untitled UI. I'll bring this up with the rest of the team and see what people like


<S2FAQ />
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