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  1. Header
  2. Body
  3. Outline

These styles apply to the container header. You can specify styles for the Default container format and create custom container formats.

You can also specify styles for legacy headers formats, if necessary. However, as a best practice, replace legacy header formats with new container formats. The new container formats create optimal markup and CSS.

In Internet Explorer 8 and later, non-legacy container formats render in HTML5 document type (standards mode). If your application is rendered in quirks mode, or Compatibility settings are enabled, non-legacy container formats may not render as expected.

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.

Headers

Use the same formatting for Expanded and Collapsed headers Applies the same settings to expanded and collapsed headers. Clear this check box if you want define different styles for expanded and collapsed headers. Additional fields appear.
Use the skin's base settings for text styling

Inherits the skin's base settings for header styling. Clear this check box if you with to customize the container's styling.

Text

Applies to the text in container headers.

Use mixin

Select this option 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.

  • Mixin overrides — Click Add mixin override to override a style that is set by the mixin:
    • Font — Select the font family. The font family defaults to (use overall), which is the font that 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, for example, Underline. A blank selection indicates that no additional attributes are applied.
    • Transform Text — Select a text transformation option from the list, for example, Lowercase. A 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. You must specify a CSS attribute that is related to text styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair.
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 that 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, for example, Underline. The blank selection is the default selection for backward compatibility and indicates that no additional attributes are applied.
  • Transform Text — Select a text transformation option from the list, for example, Lowercase. The blank selection is the default selection 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. You must specify a CSS attribute that is related to text styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair.

Border

Applies to the border of container headers. Displays within the outline border if a border is defined on the Outline tab.

Use mixin

Select this option 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.

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.
Specify styles

Select to define a custom border:

  • Apply to all sides — Select this check box 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 check box, 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.

Background

Applies to the background of container headers.

Use mixin

Select this option 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.

  • Additional styles — Add additional styles, specific to styling the text for this element, by specifying a CSS attribute and value. You must specify a CSS attribute that is related to text styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair.
Specify styles

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 the gear icon 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 the Gear icon 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 cannot 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 the Delete icon to remove an additional style.

Expanded Icon

Specifies the icon indicating that the container is expanded; click to collapse the container.

Image Specify the height of the header by entering a value in pixels.
Indent Specify the indentation of the header text in pixels.

Collapsed Icon

Specifies the icon indicating the container is collapsed; click to expand the container.

Image Specify the height of the header by entering a value in pixels.
Indent Specify the indentation of the header text in pixels.

Height

Sets the height of container headers.

Height Specify the height of container headers by entering a value in pixels.

Container states

Use the options in this section to style the control based on its state. You can style the control differently when it is in one of the following states:

You can apply different styles for different states by using one of the following styles. To use the same style for all states, select the Use same styles for hover, focus and active check box.

Creating a custom container format

To create a style format:

  1. Click Add a format.
  2. In the Create a new format dialog box, enter the Format name by using only alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9) and spaces. The name cannot begin with a number. The format name that you enter is converted into the name CSS class or classes.
  3. Optional: Provide a Usage annotation.
  4. Click OK. The new format is populated with default values.

To create a style format by copying an existing format, click Actions and select Save as from the list.

Applying a custom container format

  1. Open the Properties panel of the layout containing the container.
  2. In the Container Format field, select Other.
  3. Press the down arrow in the Container Format field and select the custom container format that you want to use.

About Legacy header formats

If you select the Include legacy header formats check box, you can specify styles for legacy header formats.

As a best practice, avoid use of legacy header formats: Standard, Sub, Standard Hidden, Sub Hidden, Custom, Outline, A, B, C, D, Simple. If your application uses legacy header formats, replace the legacy header formats with new container formats that create optimal markup and CSS.

Description of legacy header formats

Header
Standard

Standard heading format.
Custom

Custom header format. When applying this style to a layout, specify Custom as the Container format. In the HTML field that displays, select an HTML rule that defines the content of the custom header.
Standard Hidden

Hidden header format (no header). This option is not available for the top-level of a harness.

SubHeader

 Information in or below a subheader (including Sub Hidden) is right-indented from information in a header.
Sub

Sub heading format.
A

B

C

D

 Sub heading formats that function identically, but may differ in presentation. For example, if your forms include three hierarchical levels of subheaders, you can select A for the highest level, B for the middle level, and C for the lowest level.

You may choose to format the sub headers as follows:

  • A — No bar in the subheader
  • B — Underlined subheader label
  • C — Outline border
  • D — Black font
Simple Preserves PRPC Version 5.5 flow action styles for layouts created from PRPC Version 5.5 flow actions.
Outline

Provides no header area, but a border around the contents of the layout with a single text label.
Sub Hidden

For no subheader, but indented body.
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