[QUESTION]: Get all css without specific component and it's children

Hi @RJCAM !

I don't think there's a built-in way to achieve this, but building on top of the answer you linked, you can recursively concatenate all the components' CSS, filtering out the selected one & its children like the following (assuming window.editor for the example, may need to be adapted):

function getAllExceptSelectedComponentsCss(includeWrapper = true) {
    const selectedComponent = editor.getSelected();

    return includeWrapper ?
      allExceptSelectedComponentsCssReducer('', editor.getWrapper()) :
      editor.getComponents().reduce(allExceptSelectedComponentsCssReducer, '')
    ;

    function allExceptSelectedComponentsCssReducer(allExceptSelectedComponentsCss, component) {
      if (component !== selectedComponent) {
        /**
         * Since editor.CodeManager.getCode also retrieves a component children's styles, we need to silently
         *  remove each component's children before retrieving their CSS, & re-append them back afterwards, because the
         *  selected component might be nested.
         */
        const childrenComponents = component.components().models;

        component.empty({silent: true});

        allExceptSelectedComponentsCss += editor.CodeManager.getCode(component, 'css', {
          cssc: editor.CssComposer
        });

        if (childrenComponents.length) {
          component.append(childrenComponents, {silent: true});
          allExceptSelectedComponentsCss = childrenComponents.reduce(allExceptSelectedComponentsCssReducer, allExceptSelectedComponentsCss);
        }
      }

      return allExceptSelectedComponentsCss;
    }
}

Cheers !

EDITED: fixed styles of nested components being retrieved by parents

@RJCAM I'm sorry I just noticed that my previous answer wasn't working because retrieving the CSS of a component with children also included the children's CSS (it hence produced duplicated styles, as well as including the selected component's style if it was nested). I edited it to fix that.

Hi @mcottret, thanks for your response I think your right, I'm going to edit your code to make it work as I expect I really appreciate your help, thank you!