Issue #6659๐Ÿ’ฌ AnsweredOpened Nov 25, 2025by NilLlisterri1 reactions

Symbol styles not synced

Quick answerby NilLlisterriโค 1

Got it, if I want to style something inside a symbol and share the changes I should add a class to it. Thank you both for the help!

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GrapesJS version [x] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Firefox 145.0 (64-bit) Reproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/artur_arseniev/ta19s6go/ Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug? Go to the official Symbols demo, create a symbol and change the text color of the main symbol. Instance symbols are not updated. What is the expected behavior? The styles of the symbols should be updated, as seen in the PR video. What is the current behavior? Styles are not updated, unlike new components, texts, etc. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/984ab...

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NilLlisterriโ€ข Nov 28, 2025

Got it, if I want to style something inside a symbol and share the changes I should add a class to it. Thank you both for the help!

lexoyoโ€ข Nov 26, 2025

Hello This color is applied to the element, in grapesjs this means it will generate a css like #compid { color: red; } but IDs are unique in an HTML page, so the other symbol has a different ID It's a problem to me too, I'm not sure how that should be addressed... Maybe @artf has an idea

artfโ€ข Nov 28, 2025

Sorry, not a bug, but a "feature" ๐Ÿ˜…

IMHO, component styles should not be bound to symbols; that's an easy way to override styles between same symbols (common thing). If you need the same styles, you simply leverage the classes.

GJS Helperโ€ข May 17, 2026

Thank you for reporting this issue and for the kind words about GrapesJS! You've identified a common point of confusion regarding how styles are propagated within GrapesJS Symbols. Root Cause The behavior you're observing is not strictly a bug, but rather a consequence of how GrapesJS manages style...

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