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How to style using emotion with Global Styles in Next.js

September 11, 2022

What is Emotion?

Emotion is a library designed for wrting css styles with JavaScript.

Step 1: Install Emotion

npm install --save @emotion/react

Step 2: Create global style

const global = css`
    body {
        color: #333;
    }
`

Step 3: Import Global and css in _app.tsx

import { Global, css } from '@emotion/react'

Step 4: Add Global component and styles

<Global styles={global} />

This is _app.tsx file.

// _app.tsx

import type { AppProps } from 'next/app'
import { Global, css } from '@emotion/react'

export default function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  const global = css`
    body {
      color: #333;
    }
  `

  return (
    <>
      <Global styles={global} />
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  )
}

Optional 1: Make global style file (global-style.ts)

Create global-style.ts file.

// global-style.ts

import { css } from '@emotion/react'

export const global = css`
  html,
  body {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen,
      Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;
  }

  a {
    color: inherit;
    text-decoration: none;
  }

  * {
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }

  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    html {
      color-scheme: dark;
    }
    body {
      color: white;
      background: black;
    }
  }

`

Import global-style.ts file in _app.tsx

// _app.tsx

import type { AppProps } from 'next/app'
import { Global } from '@emotion/react'

import { global } from '@styles/globals-style'

export default function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <>
      <Global styles={global} />
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  )
}

Optional 2: Using normalize.css

Install normalize.css.

npm install --save normalize.css

Import normalize.css file in global-style.css

// global-style.ts

import 'normalize.css'
import { css } from '@emotion/react'

export const global = css`
 ...
`

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