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# Styling your components on Compose Web

**[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A tutorial on styling components in Compose for Web using CSS. Covers inline styling via the StyleScope DSL, stylesheet creation by extending the StyleSheet class, and various CSS selectors including element type, class, ID, inheritance, sibling, combined styles, pseudo-selectors, and raw CSS string selectors. Practical Kotlin code examples are provided throughout for each approach.

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