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Skin form — Components tab — Controls — Check boxes

Styles that you set here apply to the labels for check boxes. You can define the Standard check box style or create custom check box formats.

A preview of the currently selected format displays to the right. To preview all check box formats, click Preview All.

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.

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Applies to the check box label.

Use mixin

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 the gear icon 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.
Specify styles

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.

You can create custom check box formats that you can apply within your application.

Creating a custom check box format

To create a new style format:

  1. Click Add a format.
  2. 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.
  3. Type a Usage annotation, if desired.
  4. 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 check box format

  1. In the cell containing the check box control, click the Gear icon Gear icon to open the Cell Properties panel.
  2. On the Presentation tab, press the down arrow in the Style field to select the custom format that you want to use.
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