Godot: please add style for all containers

[Shadowblitz16]

please add a style for all containers
currently things like hbox and vbox cannot render anything forcing the user to place something behind it

[groud]

No, I don't think it makes sense. Containers are for rearranging their children, they do not need a style.
If you need a style to be applied, simply put your container inside a PanelContainer.

[LikeLakers2]

I don't want to outright reject the idea, but I don't see what you might want to style about the containers. So I'll ask: If we were to allow styling these containers, what would you use that styling for? What might you expect to be able to style about a container?

[bojidar-bg]

Having styling on containers would allow for not using PanelContainer so often, which would lead to somewhat cleaner hierarchies.

[groud]

Having styling on containers would allow for not using PanelContainer so often, which would lead to somewhat cleaner hierarchies.

The thing is that I am not sure it makes sense for most containers. It has also a maintenance cost, unless we add it as a generic property in all containers. Also, this would make the PanelContainer useless.

All of this could be modified, but it should be a global rework, not just adding style to all containers.

[Zylann]

Containers are all CanvasItem still, which means they always create a CanvasItem RID and they can draw with it. For now you could use a script which draws your stylebox in _draw().

[Shadowblitz16]

the purpose of styling these would be so that the user doesn't have to place a panel underneath the container.

if containers shouldn't be stylized then there should be some sort of panel alternative to all the containers in which can be styled.

[MuffinManKen]

This doesn't seem like something that should be implemented in Godot. Since there are a number of ways to get this effect with what Godot provides, this would just add bloat.

[girng]

can't this be done with a theme?

[Shadowblitz16]

@girng no it can't that's the issue

[Zylann]

I mean... you can pick the StyleBox you want and assign it to all container items in a custom Theme resource, and define that as your global theme. That will make all of these container have that stylebox by default, a bit like in CSS. Did you try that and it failed?

Edit: indeed, you're right...

So the only alternative for you would be to create a scene with a container having the background you want (either by child Panel or script) and use instances of that instead of creating containers from the Add Node menu.

[Shadowblitz16]

@Zylann wait what?
your example image doesn't have a option to assign a StyleBox.

[Zylann]

@Shadowblitz16 yeah I just realized.