Documentation updated in 2024, 2023, and 2022

[LishaLi_unity]

November 25, 2024

• Troubleshooting custom control library compilation (Unity 6)

October 30, 2024

• Color emojis
• Panel Settings properties reference
• VisualElement.generateVisualContent

September 16, 2024

• Get started with runtime binding (Unity 6)
• Bind to multiple properties with runtime binding (Unity 6)
• Create a runtime binding with a type converter (Unity 6)

Auguet 30, 2024

• ListView FAQs
• TreeView FAQs
• MultiColumnTreeView FAQs
• MultiColumnListView FAQs
• VisualElement.generateVisualContent
• BaseVerticalCollectionView.itemsSourceChanged

July 30, 2024

• Bind ListView to a list with runtime binding (Unity 6)

July 26, 2024

• Order of execution of an Editor window

July 3, 2024

• GenericDropdownMenu (Unity 6)

June 24, 2024

• Different approaches to hiding an element
• Style a Toggle
• Fixed missing titles in some of the scripting API documentation
• Updated 19 pages based on 12 user-reported feedback tickets

May 24, 2024

• IVisualElementScheduler
• VisualElement.style
• VisualElement.resolvedStyle
• VisualElement.customStyle

May 6, 2024

• Runtime UI event system and input handling (Unity 6)
• Get custom styles in C# scripts
• Get resolved styles

April 10, 2024

• Encapsulate UXML documents with logic (Unity 6)
• The root pseudo-class
• UXML element TwoPaneSplitView

March 26, 2024

• Text effects (Unity 6)

March 22, 2024

• Create a Custom Inspector
• Comparison of UI systems in Unity (Unity 6)
• UXML element RenderingLayerMaskField (Unity 6)

March 20, 2024

• Create an aspect ratio custom control (Unity 6)

March 14, 2024

• Create a custom Editor window with C# script

February 23, 2024

• Set background images

January 30, 2024

• Preview with a light or dark theme
• Apply masking effects in UI Toolkit

January 24, 2024

• Advanced Text Generator (Unity 6)
• USS transition

January 17, 2024

• Create an aspect ratio custom control (2023.2)
• UsageHints
• Get resolved styles
• Updated all the code examples of EditorWindow API properties and methods to use UI ToolKit
• Theme Style Sheet (TSS)

November 14, 2023

• Updated all the 69 UXML elements pages with descriptions, images, and code examples
• Updated 40 pages according to 36 user-reported documentation issues

October 31, 2023

• Bind the MultiColumnListView to data (2023.3)

October 7, 2023

• Control behavior with events (2023.2)
• Dispatch events (2023.2)
• Capture the pointer with a manipulator (2023.2)
• Handle event callbacks and value changes (2023.2)
• Focus order of elements (2023.2)
• Respond to events with custom controls (2023.2)

September 12, 2023

• Parallel tessellation (2023.2)

August 29, 2023

• Manipulators

August 16, 2023

• Unity Properties
• Property bags
• Property visitors
• Property paths
• Use PropertyVisitor to create a property visitor
• Use low-level APIs to create a property visitor

August 8, 2023

• UXML element TabView (2023.2)
• Create a tabbed menu (2023.2)
• UXML element ToggleButtonGroup (2023.2)

August 1, 2023

• Data binding (2023.2)

• Get started with runtime binding (2023.2)

• Create a runtime data binding in C# scripts (2023.2)

• Define a data source (2023.2)

• Define binding modes and update triggers (2023.2)

• Convert data types (2023.2)

• Define logging levels (2023.2)

• Create custom binding types (2023.2)

• Create a custom binding to bind USS selectors (2023.2)

June 12, 2023

• Control the scroll speed in UXML element ScrollView (2023.1)
• UXML element ListView (2023.2)
• UXML element TreeView (2023.2)
• UXML element MultiColumnListView (2023.2)
• UXML element MultiColumnTreeView (2023.2)
• Create a drag-and-drop list and tree views between windows (2023.2)
• UXML element TwoPaneSplitView
• Manage control states in Structure UI with C# scripts

May 31, 2023

• Updated 93 pages according to 12 user-reported documentation issues

May 16, 2023

• Navigation events
• Set background images with an image asset
• UXML element TextField (2022.2)
• UXML element DoubleField (2022.2)
• UXML element LongField (2022.2)
• UXML element FloatField (2022.2)
• UXML element IntegerField (2022.2)
• UXML element PropertyField (2022.2)
• UXML element UnsignedIntegerField (2022.2)
• UXML element UnsignedLongField (2022.2)

May 2, 2023

• UXML element Button (2023.2)

April 30, 2023

• Updated 4 pages according to 4 user-reported documentation issues

April 26, 2023

• Create custom controls (2023.2)
• Customize UXML tag names and attributes (2023.2)
• Create a custom control with two attributes (2023.2)
• Create a slide toggle custom control (2023.2)
• Create a radial progress indicator (2023.2)
• Create a bindable custom control (2023.2)
• Create a custom style for a custom control (2023.2)
• Use Vector API to create a radial progress indicator (2023.2)
• Use Mesh API to create a radial progress indicator (2023.2)

April 25, 2023

• UI Toolkit Debugger
• UXML element Image

April 13, 2023

• UI Toolkit project settings
• Connect styles to elements

March 30, 2023

• UI Builder
• Get started with UI Builder

March 7, 2023

• Theme Style Sheet (TSS)

February 28, 2023

• Updated 43 pages according to 37 user-reported documentation issues

February 21, 2023

• Specify where child elements are nested in a UXML template ( in the Reuse UXML files page)
• Encapsulate UXML documents with logic

January 31, 2023

• Updated 23 pages according to 15 user-reported documentation issues

January 30, 2023

• Find visual elements with UQuery
• Relative and absolute positioning (for the runtime UI)

January 11, 2023

• UI Renderer

• Generate 2D visual content

• Create a pie chart in the Editor and runtime UI

• Use Vector API to create a radial progress indicator

December 30, 2022

• Structure UI

• Structure UI with UXML

• Introduction to UXML

• Reference other files from UXML

• Structure UI with C# scripts

• Expose custom control to UXML and UI Builder

• Customize a UXML tag name

• Structure UI examples

• Create a custom control with two attributes

December 12, 2022

• Use uGUI and UI Toolkit in the same project

November 30, 2022

• Updated 25 pages according to user-reported documentation issues

November 22, 2022

• UXML element RadioButtonGroup
• UXML element RadioButton
• UXML element GroupBox
• UXML element DropdownField

November 15, 2022

• UXML element ScrollView
• Wrap content inside a scroll view

November 8, 2022

Best practices and performance consideration

• Best practices for managing elements
• Best practices for USS
• Performance consideration for runtime UI

USS

• USS color keywords
• Introduction to USS
• Apply styles with C#
• USS custom properties (variables)
• USS properties
• Create USS variables
• USS built-in variable reference
• Introduction to USS built-in variables
• Type selectors
• Class selectors
• Name selectors
• Multiple selectors
• Child selectors
• Descendant selectors
• Universal selectors
• Selector precedence
• Pseudo-classes
• Selectors list

The visual tree

• Introduction to visual elements and visual tree
• Panels
• Draw order
• Coordinate and position systems
• Relative and absolute positioning C# example
• UQuery

October 30, 2022

• Updated 29 pages according to 15 user-reported documentation issues

October 18, 2022

• Create a popup window

October 4, 2022

• Work with text

• Get started with text

• Style text with USS

• Style text with rich text tags

• Supported rich text tags

• Introduction to font assets

• Font Asset properties reference

• Font Asset Creator properties reference

• Style sheet

• Include sprites in text

• Sprite assets properties reference

• Color gradient

• Panel text settings assets

• Fallback font

September, 2022

• Updated 48 pages according to 23 user-reported documentation issues

August 10, 2022

• Controls reference
• UXML elements reference and all the individual UXML reference pages
• Synthesize and send events

August 4, 2022

• Create a transition event
• Create looping transitions

July 26, 2022

• Support for Editor UI

• Support for runtime UI

• Get started with runtime UI

• Render UI in the Game view

• Panel Settings properties

• Runtime UI event system

• FAQ for event and input system

• Create a ListView runtime UI

July 20, 2022

• Transition events

June 28, 2022

• UXML element Toggle
• UXML element Foldout

June 21, 2022

• Comparison of UI systems in Unity (2021.3)
• Comparison of UI systems in Unity (2022.x)

June 14, 2022

• UXML elements reference
• UXML element ListView

May 25, 2022

• Contextual menu events

May 3, 2022

• Create a drag-and-drop UI to drag between Editor windows

April 26, 2022

Data binding

• SerializedObject data binding
• Bindable elements reference
• Bindable data types and fields
• Binding system implementation details

Tutorials

• Bind with binding path in C# script
• Bind without the binding path
• Bind with UXML and C#
• Create a binding inspector
• Bind to nested properties
• Bind to a UXML template
• Receive callbacks when a bound property changes
• Receive callbacks when any bound properties change
• Bind to a list
• Bind to a list without listview
• Bind a custom element
• Bind to a custom data type

April 19, 2022

• Custom controls

• Create a slide toggle custom control

• Create a radial progress indicator

• Create a bindable custom control

• Create a custom style for a custom control

April 7, 2022

• Create a transition in a custom Editor window
• Manage UI asset references from C# scripts
• Apply styles with C# scripts

Mar 22, 2022

USS

• USS property reference

• USS transform

• USS transitions

• USS properties

• Set background images

Tutorials

• Simple UI Toolkit workflow
• Create a drag-and-drop UI inside a custom Editor window
• Create a tabbed menu for runtime
• Create list and tree views

Migration guide

• Migrate from Immediate Mode GUI (IMGUI) to UI Toolkit

[KamilCSPS]

Can this be pinned please? Very happy to see such a thread exists (and should exist for every Unity feature but I digress).

Thank you!

[antoine-unity]

@KamilCSPS

Can this be pinned please? Very happy to see such a thread exists (and should exist for every Unity feature but I digress).

Thank you!

We have a lot of pinned threads already and we should avoid having two for documentation. We have pinned the most recent thread that was introduced for 2024. It contains a link to this one in case you want to see older changelogs.