Styling not applying to child component

Question

I'm trying to apply styling to a child component tag, but I can't do that.

I have child component with anchor tag.

Even though i have styling for anchor tag in the parent component, it's not applying. What's the solution for it?

Working code: http://plnkr.co/edit/CJCpV4ZbG7hdxT2AeSmt?p=preview

 <a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>

In the parent component i'm using the child component and applying styling for this child component.

Html code:

<div class="container">
  <div class="test">
    <testapp></testapp>
  </div>
</div>

Css code:

.container{
  font-family:sans-serif;
  font-size:18px;
  border: 1px solid black;
}
.test{
  width:50%;
  background-color:#f0f5f5;
}

.container:hover .test{
  background-color:#e6ffe6;
}
.container:hover .test:hover{
  background-color:#ffffe6;
}
.container .test a {
    color:   red ;
}
.container .test a:hover {
    color:green;
}

Answer 1

It's because by default components have view encapsulation (shadow dom). To disable this behavior, you can leverage the encapsulation attribute, as described below:

import {Component, ViewEncapsulation} from '@angular/core'; import {TestApp} from 'testapp.component.ts'; @Component({   selector:'test-component',   styleUrls: ['test.component.css'],   templateUrl: './test.component.html',   directives:[TestApp],   encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None // <------ }) export class TestComponent{  } 

See this plunkr: http://plnkr.co/edit/qkhkfxPjgKus4WM9j9qg?p=preview.

Answer 2

When using the styleUrls property, the styles are local to the one component, not to its children. So I made two changes: 1) Moved the styleUrls to the testapp component. 2) Moved the div to the testapp component.

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
@Component({
 selector:'testapp',
 styleUrls: ['./test.component.css'],
 template: `
 <div class="test">
  <a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>
 </div>

 `

})
export class TestApp{

}