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Skin form — Components tab — Controls — Buttons

Styles set here apply to buttons. For the following formats, you can specify the height of the button and the style of the text, border and background:

You can also create custom button formats.

A preview of the currently selected format displays to the right. To preview all Button 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.

Text

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.

Border

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.

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 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.

Rounded corners

enable rounded corners (HTML5 only)

Select this check box if you want the border of the overlay to have rounded corners when rendered in HTML5 document type. You can select this option when using a mixin or a custom border.

For information about rendering your application in HTML5 document type, see HTML5 Application Readiness.

Rounded corners do not work when the UI is rendered in quirks mode.

same for all corners

Select to use the rounded corner settings that you specify in the Unit and Radius fields for all four corners or clear to specify the length of the x and y axis for the Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right.

same x and y axis radii

Select to specify x and y radii of the same length. If you clear this check box, specify the length of the x and y axis for the Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right.

Unit Select the unit of measurement for the rounded corner settings: pixels (px), em (the current font size), or percentage (%).
Radius

Define the curve of rounded corners by specifying the x (hortizontal) and y (vertical) radii of the quarter ellipse that makes the rounded corner of the overlay.

Background

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.

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 () 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.

Height

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

Padding

Padding

Specify the width of the padding in pixels. Clear the Apply same padding on all sides checkbox if you want to specify a different amount of padding, in pixels, for Top, Left, Right, and Bottom.

Creating custom button formats

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 button format

  1. In the cell containing the button control, click the magnifying glass icon Magnifying glass to open the Cell Properties panel.
  2. On the Presentation tab, select Other in the Format drop-down.
  3. In the field that displays, press the down arrow to select the format that you want to apply to the button.

You can delete styles that you create; click Delete Link.

Related topics Harness and Section forms — Adding a Button control
Related topics Skin rules — Completing the Components tab


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