Dynamically changing the look of a button

So i got this button and i use the targetGraphic in its basic way to set the back color, like a button does.
However, i also want icons per button and i want to do things like change the color of the icon or make the button text move a little and those things when the button is hovered or selected.

The only event is onClick. How do i do these things in Unity? Watching for property changes in LateUpdate() seems like horrible design, at least it would be in any desktop or app ui framework.

Have a nice weekend

 

Any best practices ressources i should know about?

 

You can add the EventTrigger component and choose different events.

Add PointerEnter and drag in a gameobject with an Image component to turn on/off. Then do the opposite on PointerExit.

Or put a custom script on any element that uses the interfaces from here - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.html#interfaces

 

Nice, thank you!