Hi Gordon,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll play around with that idea today.

Here's a plunker of what I currently have hacked together.
I don't think my solution is very elegant or salable, I'm going to have a 
lot of pages with edit panels.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Luis

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:19:02 PM UTC-7, Gordon Bockus wrote:
>
> Hi Luis,
> On thing I've found refreshing about angular is state specific css class 
> can just go in the template for that state.  If you are reusing templates 
> for various states, but need to apply different css one option would be to 
> create a constant that has state.current.name -> css classes to apply, 
> and then using a function to apply the state.
>
> getCls: function() {
>   return STATE_CLS[$state.current.name];
> };
>
> If you have a more specific example of what you're trying to do ppl can 
> answer your specific question.  A plunker is always nice.
>
> Gordon
>
> On Friday, March 28, 2014 6:52:46 PM UTC-5, Luis De Avila wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Anyone have a best practice or a recommendation for updating the css of 
>> views as a user navigates though an app.
>>
>> Example, I have a list of items. User selects an item and clicks an edit 
>> button. The item's edit page slides in from the side.
>>
>> At the moment I am using a service that has the css for each of the view 
>> states.... when the list is full width, when the list is collapsed and the 
>> edit page takes up 1/3 of the page, etc.
>>
>> What I don't like about this approach is that I call functions on the 
>> service that set the value of a variable that gets references within 
>> ng-class on the various pages. I'm sure other have had to solve this kinds 
>> of scenario and am looking to some suggestions.
>>
>> I've thought about using service that listens to ui-router's state change 
>> or view load events to trigger a search of the dom and change the CSS that 
>> way. Or maybe there is a ui-router feature that can help with this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Luis
>>
>

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