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What is SLDs in Salesforce Lightning?

Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) is a CSS framework that provides a look and feel that’s consistent with Lightning Experience. Use SLDS styles to give your custom Lightning web components a UI that is consistent with Salesforce, without having to reverse-engineer our styles.

What is the SLDs framework?

SLDS is a CSS framework that gives you access to the icons, color palettes, and font that our developers use to create Lightning Experience. The Lightning Experience UI, which SLDS represents, was crafted using four core design principles.

Can I use SLDs with Visualforce code?

For the most part, Visualforce code that uses SLDS works without issue. The Lightning Design System (SLDS) includes PNG and SVG (both individual and spritemap) versions of our action, custom, doctype, standard, and utility icons.

What are the different types of components in SLDs?

A few examples include the lightning-accordion , lightning-card, and lightning-tree components. Base components provide a class attribute so that you can add an SLDS utility class or custom class to the outer elements of the components.

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The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) component library is actively developed to enable Salesforce developers to create a uniform look and feel across all Salesforce-related applications while adhering to CSS best practices and conventions.

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Salesforce introduced Lightning Data Service in Winter 17 as a pilot program. Use Lightning Data Service to load, create, edit, or delete a record in your component without requiring Apex code. Lightning Data Service handles sharing rules and field-level security for you.

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The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) is a trusted, platform-agnostic design system that was built from the ground up to provide developers with everything needed to implement the look-and-feel of Lightning Experience and the Salesforce1 mobile application.

Use Base Lightning Components

Base components in the lightning namespace use Lightning Design System styling. Many base components are built from SLDS component blueprints. A blueprint is framework-agnostic, accessible HTML and CSS. A few examples include the lightning-accordion , lightning-card, and lightning-tree components.

Use Base Lightning Component Design Variations and Utility Classes

To change the styling of a base Lightning component, first check to see whether the component has design variations. To change the spacing of a component, such as the alignment, padding, margin, or even its typography, use Lightning Design System utility classes.

Use Styling Hooks to Override Default Styles

If design variations and utility classes don’t meet your requirements, consider styling hooks. For more information, see Style Components Using Lightning Design System Styling Hooks (Beta).

Apply Custom CSS Classes

If styling hooks don’t work for your use case, try design tokens. If design tokens don’t work, create a custom CSS class instead of overriding an SLDS one. Create a class instead of targeting a class name you don’t own, since that class name can change. For example, don’t target .slds-input, as it’s part of the base component internal markup.

Create Custom Components from Base Components

To build a Lightning web component, compose it by combining smaller lightning base components into a more complex, custom component. Try to construct your design from components like buttons and media objects. Use utilities, such as grid and spacing classes for layout.

Create Custom Components from Lightning Design System Blueprints

If you can’t find a base component for your use case, find the closest SLDS blueprint to help you build your component. See Create a Component from an SLDS Blueprint.

What does SLDS stand for in Salesforce?

In lightning,SLDS stands for ‘Salesforce Lightning Design System’.With the Design System you can build custom applications with a look and feel that is consistent with Salesforce core features – without reverse engineering our styles! Simply download our platform-agnostic CSS framework.

What is Lightning Data Service?

Lightning Data Service handles sharing rules and field-level security for you.

What is SLDS in Salesforce?

The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) component library is actively developed for Salesforce developers to create a uniform look and feel across all Salesforce applications while adhering to CSS best practices and conventions

What is Lightning Design System?

The Lightning Design System reflects the patterns and components that underpin the Salesforce product. These patterns and components provide a unified language and consistent look and feel when designing apps and products within the Salesforce ecosystem.

The Four Fundamentals

SLDS is made up of four fundamental elements: Design tokens, utilities, guidelines, and blueprints. Let’s take a look at each of the elements.

Lightning Base Components

Lightning Base Components are the building blocks that make up the user interfaces for the modern Lightning Experience. When you are working on the Lightning Platform, these components are your go-to resource when you’re building user interfaces. They are built directly from the SLDS blueprints.

Lightning Web Components (LWC)

Lightning Web Components, commonly referred to as LWC, is the next major evolution of our base components and how we implement blueprints. The big difference here is that LWC is built around modern web standards and is natively supported by modern web browsers.