Skin form — Styles tab

Layouts — Tabs

Header
Body

Styles set here apply to the tab body, the area beneath the tab header and underneath the layout in tab groups. 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 the padding, border, and background 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

Tab Body

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

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.

Padding

Padding

Specify the width of the padding in pixels. Clear the same for all sides checkbox if you want to specify a different amount of padding for Top, Left, Right, and Bottom.

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 tabbed headers based on the position and focus of the tab. Depending upon the format, you may specify a dual image or a ten-part image:

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.

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