Issue #6675๐Ÿ’ฌ AnsweredOpened Dec 15, 2025by lexoyo0 reactions

Symbols and IDs

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You've accurately identified a fundamental design decision in GrapesJS regarding how IDs are handled within symbol instances. This behavior, while crucial for maintaining valid HTML, indeed presents challenges for specific use cases like styling and attribute references. Let's break down the issues and solutions. Root...

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@artf The elements with an ID in the symbols have different ID in the different instances of the symbol. It makes sense because it's bad to have multiple elements with the same ID in an HTML document Issue 1 Users who have a symbol on different pages are confused because the styles they "add" to an element ID is "lost". Did you think of a clean way to work around this in this use case? Issue 2 Another problematic use case is when I have multiple occurences of a symbole, with in side it an element with an ID a reference to this ID, e.g. <label for="the-id"> Solutions Then it breaks and there i...

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GJS Helperโ€ข May 17, 2026

You've accurately identified a fundamental design decision in GrapesJS regarding how IDs are handled within symbol instances. This behavior, while crucial for maintaining valid HTML, indeed presents challenges for specific use cases like styling and attribute references. Let's break down the issues...

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