Elements Appearance API

Customize the look and feel of Elements to match the design of your site.

Stripe Elements supports visual customization, which allows you to match the design of your site with the appearance option. The layout of each Element stays consistent, but you can modify colors, fonts, borders, padding, and more.

Start by picking a theme

Get up and running right away by picking the prebuilt theme that most closely resembles your website.

Customize the theme using variables

Set variables like fontFamily and colorPrimary to broadly customize components appearing throughout each Element.

If needed, fine-tune individual components and states using rules

For complete control, specify custom CSS properties for individual components appearing in the Element.

The Elements Appearance API doesn’t support individual payment method Elements (such as CardElement). Use the Style object to customize your Element instead.

Themes

Start customizing Elements by picking from one of the following themes:

stripe
night
flat
none

const appearance = {
  theme: 'night'
};

// Pass the appearance object to the Elements instance
const elements = stripe.elements({clientSecret, appearance});

Variables

Set variables to affect the appearance of many components appearing throughout each Element.

The variables option works like CSS variables. You can specify CSS values for each variable and reference other variables with the var(--myVariable) syntax. You can even inspect the resulting DOM using the DOM explorer in your browser.

const appearance = {
  theme: 'stripe',

  variables: {
    colorPrimary: '#0570de',
    colorBackground: '#ffffff',
    colorText: '#30313d',
    colorDanger: '#df1b41',
    fontFamily: 'Ideal Sans, system-ui, sans-serif',
    spacingUnit: '2px',
    borderRadius: '4px',
    // See all possible variables below
  }
};

// Pass the appearance object to the Elements instance
const elements = stripe.elements({clientSecret, appearance});

Commonly used variables

Variable	Description
`fontFamily`	The font family used throughout Elements. Elements supports custom fonts by passing the `fonts` option to the Elements group.
`fontSizeBase`	The font size that’s set on the root of the Element. By default, other font size variables like `fontSizeXs` or `fontSizeSm` are scaled from this value using `rem` units.
`spacingUnit`	The base spacing unit that all other spacing is derived from. Increase or decrease this value to make your layout more or less spacious.
`borderRadius`	The border radius used for tabs, inputs, and other components in the Element.
`colorPrimary`	A primary color used throughout the Element. Set this to your primary brand color.
`colorBackground`	The color used for the background of inputs, tabs, and other components in the Element.
`colorText`	The default text color used in the Element.
`colorDanger`	A color used to indicate errors or destructive actions in the Element.

Less commonly used variables

Rules

The rules option is a map of CSS-like selectors to CSS properties, allowing granular customization of individual components. After defining your theme and variables, use rules to seamlessly integrate Elements to match the design of your site.

const appearance = {
    // If you are planning to extensively customize rules, use the "none"
    // theme. This theme provides a minimal number of rules by default to avoid
    // interfering with your custom rule definitions.
    theme: 'none',

    rules: {
      '.Tab': {
        border: '1px solid #E0E6EB',
        boxShadow: '0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03), 0px 3px 6px rgba(18, 42, 66, 0.02)',
      },

      '.Tab:hover': {
        color: 'var(--colorText)',
      },

      '.Tab--selected': {
        borderColor: '#E0E6EB',
        boxShadow: '0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03), 0px 3px 6px rgba(18, 42, 66, 0.02), 0 0 0 2px var(--colorPrimary)',
      },

      '.Input--invalid': {
        boxShadow: '0 1px 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07), 0 0 0 2px var(--colorDanger)',
      },

      // See all supported class names and selector syntax below
    }
  };

  // Pass the appearance object to the Elements instance
  const elements = stripe.elements({clientSecret, appearance});

See all rules

Other Configuration Options

In addition to themes, variables and rules, we have provided additional appearance configuration options to style Elements.

You can customize these by adding them to the appearance object:

const appearance = {
  labels: 'floating',

  // other configurations such as `theme`, `variables` and `rules`...
}

We currently support the below options:

Configuration	Description
`labels`	Enables switching between labels above form fields and floating labels within the form fields; it can be either `above` or `floating`

Get early access to vertical layout for the Payment Element

We’re working on a new layout that displays payment methods vertically within the Payment Element. If you’re interested in early access, please share your email with us.

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