use css as styling file

[furesoft]

how can i use css files instead of xaml files?

[wdcossey]

I don't think there will ever be support for loading css file.

I am not sure what you want to accomplish but Avalonia uses XAML markup language.

https://avaloniaui.net/docs/

[danwalmsley]

Actually at some point there was some project that brought CSS to Avalonia, iv not seen it for a long time though now.

There is currently no plans for Avalonia to change to a different dialect. However if the community wants to build this kind of thing its a great idea.

[sgf]

https://github.com/warappa/XamlCSS

[sgf]

I don't think there will ever be support for loading css file.

I am not sure what you want to accomplish but Avalonia uses XAML markup language.

https://avaloniaui.net/docs/

In the design of Style, the design of XAML is very bad. It is highly redundant and difficult to read.

I suggest adding support for CSS-3 directly. Use various advanced improvements made to CSS styles in the web .

[maxkatz6]

@sgf from your another comment:

the shorter the better,
the smaller the number of typing characters, the better,
and the smaller space in view of the same function, the better

It needs better reasoning than "smaller == better" and how it will work with bindings, templates and other features that don't exist in CSS. By adding CSS support it might end with the same situation of bloated syntax, but in other way.

Also many CSS features (or even CSS-preprocessor features) can be ported to the Avalonia. Like inner styles. For some of them we already have feature requests, for other you can create new.

[cyraid]

@maxkatz6
It's easier to find employees that have CSS knowledge, and many teams already have people that are comfortable with CSS vs XML (and learning how XAML does it).