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nest-element-style.en-US
nest-element-style.en-US
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Created
Jun 12, 2026
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Jun 12, 2026
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How to Write Linked Styles#

Sometimes we need to modify the style of a child component when hovering over the container component. In this case, we can use cx to generate a className.

Demo#

Core code:

const useStyles = createStyles(({ css, cx }) => {
  // 1. Use cx to wrap css and get the className (acss-xxx)
  const child = cx(css`
    background: red;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
  `);

  return {
    parent: css`
      cursor: pointer;

      &:hover {
        // 2. Implement cascading
        .${child} {
          background: blue;
        }
      }
    `,
    // 3. Export the child className
    child,
  };
});

Principle Analysis#

The idea is simple because the css method always produces a serialized style object. Wrapping the css object with cx will convert the object into a className (acss-xxxx).