Skin form — Components tab — Controls — Smart tip and Smart info

Styles set here apply to the header of smart tip and smart info. You can define styles for the Standard format or create custom formats .

Text

Applies to text in the header of the smart tip or smart info.

Use 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 to define a custom style for text in the header.
  • 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 surrounding the header of the smart tip or smart info. This border displays inside the outline border, if an outline border is specified.

Use 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 the header of the smart tip or smart info.

Use 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:

  • 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.

Creating a custom 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 then select Save as from the list.

Applying a custom format

  1. Configure a Show Smart Tip action on the control. See Actions tab for details.
  2. Press the down arrow in the Format field on the Behavior dialog and select the custom smart tip format that you want to apply.

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