Properties per state

Per-state property overrides let you change a widget’s appearance or behavior when one or more states are active, without duplicating the widget definition. The two paths express overrides differently:

• Programmatic — a states: {} block on the widget itself, mapping state name to the props that change while that state is active.
• JSON — a suffix on the prop name, "<prop>.<stateName>": <value>. The base prop holds the default; each suffix supplies the override.

A complete example

A repeater accepts up to five users. Once the array reaches that limit a limitReached state activates, swapping the add button label.

Programmatic

The state lives in formConfig.states; the override sits in the repeater’s states block.

React

import { gui } from '@golemui/gui-shared';
import { GuiForm } from '@golemui/gui-react';

const config = {
  formDef: [
    gui.inputs.repeater('users', {
      addLabel: 'Add user',
      states: {
        limitReached: { addLabel: "Limit reached, you can't add more" },
      },
      children: [
        gui.inputs.textInput('name', { label: 'Name' }),
      ],
    }),
  ],
  formConfig: {
    states: { limitReached: '$form.users?.length === 5' },
  },
};

export function MyForm() {
  return <GuiForm config={config} />;
}

Angular

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { gui } from '@golemui/gui-shared';
import { FormComponent } from '@golemui/gui-angular';

@Component({
  imports: [CommonModule, FormComponent],
  selector: 'app-my-form',
  template: `<gui-form [config]="config"></gui-form>`,
})
export class MyForm {
  protected config = {
    formDef: [
      gui.inputs.repeater('users', {
        addLabel: 'Add user',
        states: {
          limitReached: { addLabel: "Limit reached, you can't add more" },
        },
        children: [
          gui.inputs.textInput('name', { label: 'Name' }),
        ],
      }),
    ],
    formConfig: {
      states: { limitReached: '$form.users?.length === 5' },
    },
  };
}

Lit

import { LitElement, html } from 'lit';
import { customElement } from 'lit/decorators.js';
import { gui } from '@golemui/gui-shared';
import '@golemui/gui-lit';

@customElement('my-form')
export class MyForm extends LitElement {
  config = {
    formDef: [
      gui.inputs.repeater('users', {
        addLabel: 'Add user',
        states: {
          limitReached: { addLabel: "Limit reached, you can't add more" },
        },
        children: [
          gui.inputs.textInput('name', { label: 'Name' }),
        ],
      }),
    ],
    formConfig: {
      states: { limitReached: '$form.users?.length === 5' },
    },
  };

  override createRenderRoot() { return this; }

  override render() {
    return html`<gui-form .config=${this.config}></gui-form>`;
  }
}

Vue

<script setup lang="ts">
import { gui } from '@golemui/gui-shared';
import { GuiForm } from '@golemui/gui-vue';

const config = {
  formDef: [
    gui.inputs.repeater('users', {
      addLabel: 'Add user',
      states: {
        limitReached: { addLabel: "Limit reached, you can't add more" },
      },
      children: [
        gui.inputs.textInput('name', { label: 'Name' }),
      ],
    }),
  ],
  formConfig: {
    states: { limitReached: '$form.users?.length === 5' },
  },
};
</script>

<template>
  <GuiForm :config="config" />
</template>

Vanilla JS

import '@golemui/gui-components/index.css';
import '@golemui/gui-lit';
import { gui } from '@golemui/gui-shared';

const form = document.getElementById('app-form');
form.config = {
  formDef: [
    gui.inputs.repeater('users', {
      addLabel: 'Add user',
      states: {
        limitReached: { addLabel: "Limit reached, you can't add more" },
      },
      children: [
        gui.inputs.textInput('name', { label: 'Name' }),
      ],
    }),
  ],
  formConfig: {
    states: { limitReached: '$form.users?.length === 5' },
  },
};

JSON

The state lives at the form root; the override is a "addLabel.limitReached" suffix on the repeater.

{
  "states": {
    "limitReached": "$form.users?.length === 5"
  },
  "form": [
    {
      "kind": "input",
      "type": "repeater",
      "path": "users",
      "addLabel": "Add user",
      "addLabel.limitReached": "Limit reached, you can't add more",
      "children": [
        {
          "kind": "input",
          "type": "textinput",
          "path": "name",
          "label": "Name"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Wire the parsed JSON into your form component the same way as any other JSON formDef:

React

import { GuiForm } from '@golemui/gui-react';
import formDef from './my-form.json';

export function MyForm() {
  return <GuiForm config={{ formDef }} />;
}

Angular

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { FormComponent } from '@golemui/gui-angular';
import formDef from './my-form.json';

@Component({
  imports: [CommonModule, FormComponent],
  selector: 'app-my-form',
  template: `<gui-form [config]="config"></gui-form>`,
})
export class MyForm {
  protected config = { formDef };
}

Lit

import { LitElement, html } from 'lit';
import { customElement } from 'lit/decorators.js';
import '@golemui/gui-lit';
import formDef from './my-form.json';

@customElement('my-form')
export class MyForm extends LitElement {
  config = { formDef };

  override createRenderRoot() { return this; }

  override render() {
    return html`<gui-form .config=${this.config}></gui-form>`;
  }
}

Vue

<script setup lang="ts">
import { GuiForm } from '@golemui/gui-vue';
import formDef from './my-form.json';

const config = { formDef };
</script>

<template>
  <GuiForm :config="config" />
</template>

Vanilla JS

import '@golemui/gui-components/index.css';
import '@golemui/gui-lit';
import formDef from './my-form.json';

const form = document.getElementById('app-form');
form.config = { formDef };

When limitReached is active the add button label switches; when it’s inactive the default addLabel applies. You can override any prop the widget supports — labels, icons, disabled flags, even nested arrays.

Multiple overrides on the same widget

Stack as many per-state overrides as you need.

Programmatic

gui.actions.button('save', {
  label: 'Save',
  disabled: false,
  states: {
    busy: { label: 'Saving…', disabled: true },
    success: { label: 'Saved!', disabled: true },
  },
});

JSON

{
  "kind": "action",
  "type": "button",
  "uid": "save",
  "label": "Save",
  "disabled": false,
  "label.busy": "Saving…",
  "disabled.busy": true,
  "label.success": "Saved!",
  "disabled.success": true
}

See also

• Inline when — for one-off prop conditions without naming a state.
• Composing states — combining multiple states with AND / OR semantics, including the colon-chain convention.