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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 days ago

Correct

Component instance question

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