Type 'string' is not assignable to type '“inherit” | “initial” | “unset” | “fixed” | “absolute” | “static” | “relative” | “sticky”'

Question

I get the following error in my application (npm 5.4.2, react 15.4, typescript 2.5.3, webpack 2.2.1, webpack-dev-server 2.4.1).

This will work:

Answer 1

The answer by superluminary doesn't work if you have nested style objects. In this case you can create a type:

import React, { CSSProperties } from 'react';

export interface StylesDictionary{
    [Key: string]: CSSProperties;
}

And use it like so:

const styles:StylesDictionary  = {
    someStyle:{
        display:'flex',
        justifyContent:'center',  
    },
    someOtherStyle:{
        display:'flex',
        justifyContent:'center',
        alignItems:'center',
        
    }
}

And then: