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Message List Styling

Styling API reference for the Message List component.

Styling Individual Messages

You can style individual messages by adding a class name to some items and providing CSS for that class name. The following example shows how to highlight the current user’s own messages:

Source code
MessageListClassName.java
message-list-class-name.css
message-list-class-name.css
message-list-class-name.tsx
message-list-class-name.css
message-list-class-name.css
message-list-class-name.ts
message-list-class-name.css
message-list-class-name.css

Style Properties

The following style properties can be used in CSS stylesheets to customize the appearance of this component.

To apply values to these properties globally in your application UI, place them in a CSS block using the html {…​} selector. See Component Style Properties for more information on style properties.

Property Supported by

--vaadin-message-font-size

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-font-weight

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-gap

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-header-line-height

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-line-height

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-list-padding

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-name-color

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-name-font-size

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-name-font-weight

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-padding

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-text-color

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-time-color

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-time-font-size

Aura, Lumo

--vaadin-message-time-font-weight

Aura, Lumo

CSS Selectors

The following CSS selectors can be used in stylesheets to target the various parts and states of the component. See the Styling documentation for more details on how to style components.

List

Root element

vaadin-message-list

Internal list layout

vaadin-message-list::part(list)

Message

Root element

vaadin-message

Text content layout

vaadin-message::part(content)

Header row

vaadin-message::part(header)

Name

vaadin-message::part(name)

Timestamp

vaadin-message::part(time)

Message text

vaadin-message::part(message)

Avatars

Avatar

vaadin-message > vaadin-avatar

Avatar icon

vaadin-message > vaadin-avatar::part(icon)

Avatar abbreviation

vaadin-message > vaadin-avatar::part(abbr)