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I'm trying to create a reusable style (let's call it titlerect) for a tikz node which is supposed to look something like the following figure I quickly whipped up in Inkscape:

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I imagine it should be usable like

\node[titlerect, title={The title}] at (0,0) {The content};

Quite honestly, however, I don't even know where to start so there's currently no MWE I can provide. I would be grateful for any pointers on how I might go about creating such a style.

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\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[titlerect/.style={draw,inner ysep=2ex,inner
xsep=1ex,minimum width={2*width("#1")},align=center,label={[anchor=center,fill=white,font=\Large\bfseries\sffamily]above:#1}}]
\node[titlerect={The title}] at (0,0) {The content\\ more content};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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You might be better off with tcolorbox, though.

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    Beautiful! Exactly what I was looking for. Maybe just as a remark: I'm using this style in a beamer presentation, so I had to replace each use of # with #### as explained here. –  May 04 '19 at 06:09
  • @nkoep Thanks for letting me know! You could probably also do \tikzset{titlerect/.style={draw,inner ysep=2ex,inner xsep=1ex,minimum width={2*width("#1")},align=center,label={[anchor=center,fill=white,font=\Large\bfseries\sffamily]above:#1}}} in the preamble of the document, which would make the style global. –  May 04 '19 at 06:16
  • Jepp, I did that, too. There's one issue that remains though. The title color is not affected by options passed to the node: \node[titlerect=title, green]. I also tried \node[titlerect=title, label={[text=green]}], which does not seem to work. The text inside the node is changed as desired, just not the label. –  May 04 '19 at 10:40
  • I've solved it now by adding a second argument to the style via titlerect/.style 2 args={} and using it like \node[titlerect={title}{green}]. While this also requires specifying a color when a default one should be used, it's good enough for my purposes. –  May 04 '19 at 11:00