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Styles set here apply to active and inactive headers of menu bars. You can specify styles for the Standard and Standard Tabbed formats, as well as create custom menu formats.
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Use the same formatting
| Use same formatting for Active and
Inactive states
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Applies the same settings to menu bars in active and inactive states. A menu bar is active when a user hovers the mouse pointer over the menu bar.
Clear this check box if you want define different styles for active and inactive states. Additional fields appear.
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Text
Applies to text in the menu bar header.
| 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.
- Mixin overrides — Click Add mixin override to override a style set by the mixin:
- Font — Select the font family. The font family defaults to (use overall), which is the font you specified in the Overall Font field at the top of the Mixins tab.
- Font Size — Select the font size in pixels (px), points (pts), em (the current font size), or percentage (%).
- Color — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color.
- Font Weight — Select a font weight from the list.
- Text Decoration — Select a text decoration option from the list, if desired. For example, Underline. The blank selection indicates that no additional attributes are applied.
- Transform Text — Select a text transformation option from the list, if desired. For example, Lowercase. The blank selection indicates that no additional attributes are applied.
- 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 check box to define a custom text format:
- Font — Select the font family. The font family defaults to (use overall), which is the font you specified in the Overall Font field at the top of the Mixins tab.
- Font Size — Select the font size in pixels (px), points (pts), em (the current font size), or percentage (%).
- Color — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color.
- Font Weight — Select a font weight from the list.
- Text Decoration — Select a text decoration option from the list, if desired. For example, Underline. The blank selection is the default, for backward compatibility, and indicates that no additional attributes are applied.
- Transform Text — Select a text transformation option from the list, if desired. For example, Lowercase. The blank selection is the default, for backward compatibility, and indicates that no additional attributes are applied.
- 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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Border
Applies to the border of the menu bar header.
| 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.
If desired, you can specify the Top, Left, Right, or Bottom border as none, solid, dashed, or dotted , rather than inheriting the style from the selected mixin.
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| Specify styles
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Select to define a custom border:
- Apply to all sides — select this checkbox to specify the same border style to the top, left, right, and bottom borders. Choose from none, solid, dashed, or dotted.
- If you clear the Apply to all sides checkbox, select a border style for the Top, Left, Right, and Bottom borders. For each of these borders, you can select none, solid, dashed, or dotted. Specify the pixel width and color of the border, if applicable.
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Background
Applies to the background of the menu bar header.
| 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 check box 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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Height
Applies to the height of the menu bar.
| Height
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Specify the height of the menu bar by entering a value
in pixels. |
Menu Icon Settings
Applies to the icons used for the menu items.
| Position
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Specify the position of the menu icon in relation to the menu item. |
| Menu Extender Right
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Specify the icon and width for the right menu extender. The menu extender icon displays when the menu extends to the right. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
| Menu Extender Down
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Specify the icon and width for the down menu extender. The menu extender icon displays when the menu extends down. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
| Check mark Icon
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Specify the icon and width for the check mark. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use.
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| Radio mark Icon
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Specify the icon and width for the radio mark. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
Vertical Menu Settings
Applies to the icons used for the vertical menu.
| Show sub-menu as inline replace menu
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When the Show sub-menu as inline replace menucheck box is selected, the sub-menu replaces the menu on-screen when the sub-menu appears. Click the back navigation icon in the sub-menu to return to the menu. This feature is useful for mobile user interfaces where screen space is limited. |
| Back Navigation icon
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You can identify a small image to appear at runtime to the left of the menu text. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
| Inline-replace Menu Dimensions
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Specify the dimensions of the replacement menu. |
Horizontal Menu Settings
Applies to the icons used for the horizontal menu.
| Size to container width
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When selected, the menu will inherit the size of the container in which it is placed. |
| Add Responsive Breakpoint
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Select this check box if you want to add a responsive breakpoint to your grid.
When the screen size reduces to the dimensions that you specify, the grid's appearance changes, according to the options you select for the first, second, and third breakpoints. |
| max-width
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Specify the maximum width at which the grid will display in the format you specified for this breakpoint. |
| unit
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Specify the unit of measurement for the width of the grid: px (pixels) or em (font size). |
| min-width
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Specify the minimum width at the grid will display in the format you specified for this breakpoint. Leave min-width empty when a range is not desired. |
| unit
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Specify the unit of measurement for the width of the grid: px (pixels) or em (font size). |
| Navigation Toggle Icon
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Specify the icon used to toggle navigation on or off. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
Creating a custom menu format
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 menu format
- Add a menu bar control to your layout.
- Click the magnifying glass to open the cell Properties panel and then click the magnifying glass beside the Control field to open the menu bar Parameters dialog.
- In the Format field, press the down arrow to select the custom format that you want to apply.
Full screen menus
Applies to full-screen menus for mobile devices.
| Display Show Menu as full screen menu
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When selected, mobile devices display the "Show menu" action as a full-screen overlay that can be closed by the user. |
| Back Navigation Icon
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Specify the icon and width for the back navigation icon that displays on Android mobile devices. The back navigation icon allows users to close the menu. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
| Close icon
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Specify the icon and width for the close icon that displays on mobile devices. The close icon allows users to close the menu. Enter the relative path to a binary file image, in the format path/name.ext.
Click the gear icon to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use. |
| Header Text
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Configure text branding for the menu bar header, which displays the value of the parent menu item.
See Text for configuration options.
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| Header Background
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Configure background branding for the menu bar header, which displays the value of the parent menu item.
See Background for configuration options.
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