Skin form — Styles tab

Layouts — Tabs

Header
Body

Styles set here apply to tabs. When you create a tab group in a layout, you can select a format in the Format field in the Tab Group properties panel. You can specify values for text, border, background, height, and indentation of the following tab formats:

Standard — default format applied to all tab groups (tabs in a harness container, tabs in a section)
Sub — sub-tab format
Repeating — tabbed repeat layouts

You can also create custom tab formats that you can apply to tab groups within sections.

Tab Styles

To preview changes, save the rule and click Run ( Run ). In the Skin Preview, click Tabs.

Use the same formatting

Use the same formatting for Active and Inactive States

Applies the same settings to active and inactive tabs. Clear this checkbox if you want define different styles for active and inactive tabs. Additional fields appear.

Text

Style Preset

Displays the currently selected Style Preset.

Click the magnifying glass () to select a different Style Preset from the Style Preset list.

Use Custom Text

Select this checkbox to define a custom text format:

Font— Select the font family and size in pixels (px), points (pts), em (the current font size), or percentage (%). The font family defaults to (use overall), which is the font you specified in the Overall Font field in the Style Presets.
Color — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color.
Bold — Select or clear the checkbox to determine the font-weight.

Border

Style Preset

Displays the currently selected Style Preset.

Click the magnifying glass () to select a different Style Preset from the Style Preset list.

Use Custom Border

Select this checkbox to define a custom border:

same for all sides — clear this checkbox if you want to specify a different border style for Top, Left, Right, and Bottom.
Select a border type and specify the pixel width and color of the border:
none, solid, dashed, or dotted.

Background

Style Preset

Displays the currently selected Style Preset.

Click the magnifying glass () to select a different Style Preset from the Style Preset list.

Use Custom Background

Select this checkbox to define a custom background:

solid — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color.
gradient (IE only) — Select the Direction in which you want to blend the colors, horizontal or vertical. Specify the Start and End colors of the gradient, as well as a Backup color for non-IE browsers.
image — Specify the default background images. These are used to render tabs based on the position and focus of the tab.

For the Standard format
- Harness Container Tabs: specify a ten-part image, identifying the Left, Middle, Right, Left on Right, and Right on Left images. See About rendering ten part background image tabs.
- Section Tabs (Active and Inactive states): specify a dual image, identifying the Fixed (Left) and Stretched (Right) images. The two images should be from the same RuleSet and version. See About rendering dual background image tabs.
  
  As a best practice, select Auto as the Width for the Stretched (Right) setting. The right image must be as wide as any text you enter into the tabs; the Auto setting allows the width to expand with the text entered.
  
  By default, the system uses the images you specify here for all four tab positions, automatically generating rotated images, depending upon the tab's presentation.
  
  If you want to specify a different image for each tab position, clear the Use same image for all positions checkbox and specify images for Top, Left, Right, and Bottom.
  
  To specify the images, complete the following:
  - Color — Select a background color (fill). Enter the CSS hexadecimal value or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color. Click No Fill if you want a transparent background.
  - Image — Enter the location of the file, including the relative path. For example, images/AlphaCorpLogo.png.
    To search for an image, click () to open the Image Catalog tool. Enter any portion of a file name (relative path, file name, or extension) in the Search box, and click Find. If you can’t find the image, make sure it is in the webwb directory.
  - Width — Enter the width of the image in pixels,
  - Tile — Specify tile settings for the image. Select None if you want to use a single image; Horizontal if you want a row of images in the background; Vertical, if you want a column of images in the background, or Both, if you want rows and columns containing the image in the background.
  - Position — Specify the placement of the starting tiled image, for example, top left.
For Sub and Page Repeat formats, specify a dual image, identifying the Fixed (Left) and Stretched (Right) images. The two images should be from the same RuleSet and version. See About rendering dual background image tabs.

Height

Height

Specify the height of the tab by entering a value in pixels. This height applies to all tab positions and orientations.

Indent

Indent

If you are defining the format for a Standard (Sub) tab, specify the tab indent.

About rendering ten-part background images

Each tab that uses a ten-part background image is comprised of a left, middle, and right image. Variations of these images are used to differentiate a tab that is selected (active) or not selected (inactive). Expanding the width beyond the width of the image creates a space between it and the adjoining image. Reducing the pixel size cuts off the image at runtime.

By default, the middle images (active or inactive) are tiled across the tabbed header and automatically sized to span the left and right images to equal a total width of 110 pixels. Use the Auto setting so that the width expands as text is entered in the tab.

Combinations of the tab images comprise a tab rendering based upon the position and focus of the tab. The three positions are:

The left-most tab in the array.
The middle tab between the left-most and right-most tabs.
The right-most tab in the array.

The examples below show the settings used for each tab position and its focus:

Left-most tab active

Middle tab active

Right-most tab active

To achieve an overlap effect, use an overlap image in the Left on Right Collapse and Right on Left. You can use the Image Library to search for standard overlap images (for instance, search on the word "overlap". Here is an example of a Left on Right Collapse overlap:

About rendering dual background images

Each tab that uses a dual background image is comprised of a Fixed (Left) and Stretched (Right) image. They display the active and inactive states in the same image and must be the same height. The Stretched (Right) image must be as wide as any text you enter into the tabs. Use the Auto setting to allow the width to expand with the text entered.

The Fixed (Left) and Stretched (Right) images should be from the same RuleSet and version.

The images you specify here apply to both Active and Inactive tabbed headers.

Fixed Left Stretched Right tab

Creating a new tab format

You can create custom tab formats that you can apply to tab groups within sections.

Creating a custom tab format

Click .
Type the custom style name using only alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9) and spaces. The style name cannot begin with a number. The style name that you enter is converted into the name CSS class/classes.
Specify the values for this format.

Using a custom tab format

When you add a tab group to your layout, select Other as the Format in the Tab Group properties panel.
In the Style field, type the name of the custom tab format you want to use.

See Completing the Layout tab — Adding a SmartLayout tab group.

You can delete the tab formats that you create; click Delete Link . You cannot delete standard (out-of-the-box) tab formats.

	Completing the Layout tab — Adding a SmartLayout tab group
	Section and Flow Action forms — Adding a Tabbed Repeat layout

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