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Styles set here determine the:

text and background of a grid row when the row has focus or is selected
style of text in a row when the mouse pointer hovers over the row
border, background, and images associated with drag and drop behavior within the grid

Grid Styles

A preview of the currently selected format displays to the right. You can also preview formats by selecting Actions > Launch in the toolbar and then choosing one of the following preview options: Run Process, Open Portal, Harness Preview, UI Gallery Preview, Skin Preview. In the Skin Preview, click the Grids tab. Select the format you want to preview: Default, Spreadsheet, Transparent, or a custom format.

Set the text and background styles for the following:

Row focus — the row in focus; responds to Keyboard events, such as Enter to open an item.
Row selection — the selected row; responds to buttons and links in the Action Top area of the repeating grid.
Row hover — OnHover style; changes the appearance of a row when the mouse pointer hovers over it. To enable OnHover for rows, select the Row Hover checkbox in the Repeat Grid panel of the grid layout.

Use default text for this grid format

Select to use the default text specified in the Default text area on the General tab.

Use mixin

Select to use a mixin to define the color of the text. Mixin displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin. Click the magnifying glass (

) to select a different mixin from the list. Only the text color from the selected mixin is applied.

Specify styles

Select to define a custom style for the selected format and specify a Color for the text. Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color.

Additional styles — Add additional styles, specific to styling the text for this element, by specifying a CSS Attribute and Value. Specify only CSS related to text styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair. Click delete to remove an additional style.

Use default background for this grid format	Select to use the default background color specified in the Default background area on the General tab.
Use mixin	Select to use a mixin to define the background color. Mixin displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin. Click the magnifying glass () to select a different mixin from the list.
Specify styles	Select to define a custom style for the selected format and specify a Color. Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color. Click No Fill if you want a transparent background. Additional styles — Add additional styles, specific to styling the background for this element, by specifying a CSS Attribute and Value. Specify only CSS related to background styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair. Click delete to remove an additional style.

Styles set here determine the color of the row beneath which a child row will be dropped and the icons that indicate whether the dropped row will be a sibling or child of the selected node.

You set these styles with the Default grid format; they are applicable to all grids, trees, and tree grids.

Sets the style for the line indicating where the selected row will be dropped.

Use default border for this grid format	Select to use the default border specified in the Default border area on the General tab.
Use mixin	Select to use a mixin to define the appearance of the border. Mixin displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin. Click the magnifying glass () to select a different mixin from the list. For the Top, Left, Right, and Bottom border, select to use the border specified in the mixin (`from mixin`) or select another option: `none`, `solid`, `dashed`, or `dotted`.
Specify styles	Select 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`.

Use default background for this grid format

Select to use the default background color specified in the Default background area on the General tab.

Use mixin Select to use a mixin to define the appearance of the background.
Mixin displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin. Click the magnifying glass () to select a different mixin from the list.

Specify styles

Select this checkbox to define a custom background:

Select the background Type:

none — Indicates no background color, similar to setting a transparent background.
solid — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the Color field to Choose a Color.
gradient — Select the Direction in which you want to blend the background colors, horizontal or vertical. Specify the Start and Stop colors of the gradient. Specify a Backup color, in the event that the browser cannot render the gradient.

image — Specify the following:
- Background color — to use the background color specified in a mixin; choose obtained from mixin and then click to select the mixin. Alternatively, you can select custom color and enter the CSS hexadecimal value or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color.
- Location — 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.
- 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.

Additional styles — Add additional styles, specific to styling the background for this element, by specifying a CSS Attribute and Value. Specify only CSS related to background styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair. Click delete to remove an additional style.

For each of the following, specify an image to indicate whether the dropped row will be a sibling or child of the selected node in a tree or tree grid.

Sibling Image — indicates the dropped row is a sibling of the selected row.
No Drag Drop Image — indicates the selected row cannot be dropped in the current location.
Child Image — indicates the dropped row is a child of the selected row in a tree.

Sibling Image

No Drag Drop Image

Child Image

Enter the location of the file, including the relative path. For example, images/sibling.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.

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