The styles you define here apply to the text and background color of rows in a Row Repeat or Column Repeat layout.
Beginning with version 7.1, the Row Repeat layout is deprecated. As a best practice, convert existing Row Repeat layouts to Grid layouts. See Adding a Grid layout.
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.
Specify the Text and Background color for Odd and Even rows. The text font is determined by the Font specified in the Page component (Components>Page).
Text
Specify the color of the text in the row.
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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 color defined in the selected mixin is applied to the text. |
| Specify styles
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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. |
Background
Specify the background color of the row.
| Use mixin
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Select to use a mixin to define the appearance of this element. The Mixin field displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin. Click to select a different mixin from the list.
- 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.
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| Specify styles
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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.
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Creating a new Repeat-row/column format
You can create custom Row Repeat or Column Repeat formats.
To create a new style format:
- Click Add a format.
- In the Create a new format dialog, type the Format name using only alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9) and spaces. The name cannot begin with a number. The style name that you enter is converted into the name CSS class/classes.
- Type a Usage annotation, if desired.
- Click OK. The new format is populated with default values.
If you want to create a new format that is a copy of an existing format, right-click the format that you want copy and then click Clone.
Applying a custom Repeat-row/column format
- When you add row/column repeat layout, click the magnifying glass to open the Properties panel. See Adding a Row Repeat layout and Adding a Column Repeat layout.
- On the General tab, select Other as the Style.
- In the field that displays, press the down arrow and select the format that you want to apply.
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