Component instance question

nathandh · 2025-07-02T17:18:36.899+00:00

Help me understand the Nordcraft approach: When am I editing the parent component, and when am I editing the child / instance? In Webflow, you can only edit instances via props / attributes, but it looks like in Nordcraft you can apply styles to an individual component without affecting the parent? What is the context of those rules?

nathandh

9 days ago

Help me understand the Nordcraft approach:

When am I editing the parent component, and when am I editing the child / instance?

In Webflow, you can only edit instances via props / attributes, but it looks like in Nordcraft you can apply styles to an individual component without affecting the parent? What is the context of those rules? 🙏🏼
Lucas G

9 days ago

I think referring them as parent/child might be confusing but I get what you're saying
By parent I assume you mean editing the component itself, if so then that should be your 'default' style
Lucas G

9 days ago

You can then style individual instances if they need something different, for example you usually need background-color to be white but in this one instance I need it to be a light grey
Attributes are good for anything that needs to be calculated
nathandh

9 days ago

So if I drag a component onto a page and make changes to it, those are scopes only to that instance, correct? I have to enter the explicit “component editing” mode in order to change all instances?
Lucas G

9 days ago

Correct

Component instance question

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