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Come up with a style guide, and actual styles, for all builtin widgets, relating to unfocused and disabled states #1780

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In part prompted by the start of work on #1748: it's time to think about a style guide, and an actual implementation of styles, for interactive Textual widgets in relation to being enabled/disabled and focused/unfocused. The main aims should be that a user of a Textual application can:

  • See at a glance which widgets are enabled
  • See at a glance which widgets are disabled
  • See at a glance which widgets that have their own "cursor" are focused and where the cursor is
  • See at a glance which widgets that have their own "cursor" are unfocused and where the cursor is

There should probably be an overlap here too. It would make sense, I think, for a Tree or a DataTable to have no focus, be disabled, but also have content and have a cursor highlighting something; done in a way that it's obvious that it's disabled and not just lacking focus.

Things to consider:

  • The styling should be as universal as possible
  • It should be possible to theme it (when themes become a thing)
  • It should work for both dark and light mode
  • It should always be easy for a developer to override it

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