How to style Meteor.js loginButtons?

Question

The docs specify to use the template {{> loginButtons}} to implement the default login buttons.

What is the best way to apply my own styles to this?<

Answer 1

Create your own html template similar to this below. Style it to your taste.

meteor add accounts-password accounts-ui

                <template name="login">
                     <form class="login-form">
                        <div class="panel panel-default">
                            <div class="panel-heading">
                                <h3>Login</h3>
                            </div>
                            <div class="panel-body">
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <label>Email</label>
                                    <input type="email"  class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="Email address">
                                </div>
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <label>Password</label>
                                    <input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" placeholder="password">
                                </div>
                            </div>
                            <div class="panel-footer">
                                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger btn-lg">Login</button>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </form>
                </template>

You can now call Meteor.loginWithPassword in the template event like so:

Template.login.events({
    'submit .login-form': function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var email = e.target.email.value;
        var password = e.target.password.value;
      Meteor.loginWithPassword(email, password,function(error){
            if(error) {
                //do something if error occurred or 
            }else{
               FlowRouter.go('/');
            }
        });
     }
 });

You can create another form for registration as well.

Just call Accounts.createUser(object, callback);

Answer 2

Creating your own templates would definitely give you more control.

You create a template by using the "template" tag:

<template name="player">
  <div class="player {{selected}}">
    <span class="name">{{name}}</span>
    <span class="score">{{score}}</span>
    <span class="wins"> {{wins}} </span>
    <span class="losses"> {{loss}} </span>
  </div>

</template>

OR You can check the "classes" or the "id" of the login buttons after they are rendered on a webpage, using "Inspect Element" on Chrome, And the use those classes as CSS selectors to style them accordingly.

For example:

HTML:

//The login button has a class of loginButton
<button class="loginButton"> Login! </button>

CSS:

#Then you can Have a style for the login button as:
.loginButton{
     width: 100px;
     background-color: cyan;
}

Answer 3

It turns out a combination of the two ideas can be used. After delving into the accounts-ui package, it turns out that it contains only one .less file. The actual template is included in accounts-ui-unstyled, which is automatically included when accounts-ui is added to a meteor project.

Hence, the CSS can be removed as follows:

meteor remove accounts-ui
meteor add accounts-ui-unstyled

You are then left with the raw HTML, which can be styled as you choose.

Answer 4

Checkout this screencast EventedMind - Customizing Login