CSS

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Introduction

Lianja Apps can be styled using CSS to your preferred theme or themes.

Defining

Use the CSS Style Attribute in the App Inspector Attributes tab or Attributes Dialog to specify the CSS properties.

CSS Style can be set to the name of a CSS file.

Use the 'app:/' prefix for a CSS file in the App:

app:/myapp.css

and the 'lib:/' prefix for a CSS file in the library.

lib:/myapp.css

The CSS file can contain CSS property definitions for a single UI element, multiple elements or for the whole App or multiple Apps. In the App Settings, the App CSS Style file will be created in the library by default, allowing the same CSS file to be used by multiple Apps.

Alternatively, CSS Style can be set to a character string. Each property definition is terminated with a semi-colon (;), for example:

border: 2px solid green; font: bold italic large "Times New Roman";

The properties will be applied to that element and cascaded to elements lower in the hierarchy: Page->Section->Formitem.

To access CSS Style in code using setAttribute() and getAttribute() the attribute name is cssStyle.

Note: as well as the primary CSS Style attribute the following sub-component styles can also be defined (the setAttribute() / getAttribute() attribute names are shown in brackets):

Page:

Navigation Panel: CSS Style (leftSidebarTreeStylesheet)

Section:

Header: Header CSS Style (headerCssStyle)
Subtitle: CSS Style (subtitleCssStyle)
Footer: Footer button CSS (footerButtonCss)

Checklistview Gadget:

Data: CSS Style (gadgetCssStyle)

Grid Gadget:

Data: CSS Style (gadgetCssStyle)

Treeview Gadget:

Data: CSS Style (gadgetCssStyle)

Listview Gadget:

Data: CSS Style (gadgetCssStyle)

In Custom Sections and Custom Gadgets using the Lianja UI Framework, the equivalent property is stylesheet (css is also supported).

Selectors

In CSS files, selectors define the individual object or type of object to be styled.

Universal Selector

The asterisk (*) selects all objects.

ID Selectors

The ID selector for a named object is #id, for example:

#page1_section1_field1

In an App, each UI element is given a unique object id.

Page: pageid (Page 'name' attribute).

Section: pageid + "_" + sectionid (Section 'name' attribute).

Formitem: pageid + "_" + sectionid + "_" + formitemid (Form Section Field/Gadget or Canvas Section Advanced Control 'name' attribute).

#page1_section1_field1 {
	background:red;
	color:white;	
}

In Custom Sections and Custom Gadgets using the Lianja UI Framework, the elements use the name property that you assign to them.

#nShipperID {
	background:blue;
	color:yellow;
}

Type Selectors: Pages, Sections and Formitems

lianja_ui_page

[lianja_ui_page_footer]

[lianja_ui_page_header]

[lianja_ui_page_panel]

lianja_ui_section

[lianja_ui_section_footer]

lianja_ui_section_formitem

[lianja_ui_section_formitem_data]

[lianja_ui_section_formitem_divider]

[lianja_ui_section_formitem_gadget]

[lianja_ui_section_formitem_label]

[lianja_ui_section_formitem_separator]

[lianja_ui_section_formitem_subtitle]

Type Selectors: UI Framework

lianja_ui_checkbox

lianja_ui_combobox

lianja_ui_commandbutton

lianja_ui_container

lianja_ui_control

lianja_ui_datetextbox

lianja_ui_datetimetextbox

lianja_ui_editbox

lianja_ui_editor

lianja_ui_form

lianja_ui_grid

Sub-control: lianja_ui_grid::item

lianja_ui_header

lianja_ui_label

lianja_ui_listbox

lianja_ui_menu

lianja_ui_menubar

lianja_ui_menuitem

lianja_ui_navbar

lianja_ui_optionbutton

lianja_ui_pageframe

lianja_ui_pagesidebar

lianja_ui_popupmenu

lianja_ui_progressbar

lianja_ui_richeditbox

lianja_ui_spinner

lianja_ui_splitter

lianja_ui_tabpage

lianja_ui_textbox

lianja_ui_toolbar

lianja_ui_toolbox

lianja_ui_tree

Sub-control: lianja_ui_tree::item

Pseudo-State Selectors

Selectors may contain pseudo-states. They are prefixed with a colon (:).

hover

lianja_ui_grid::item:!hover { 
	background:pink;
}
lianja_ui_grid::item:hover { 
	background:yellow;
}

Property Selectors

e.g.

A Form Section Field has a Custom Attribute defined:

Custom attributes: attr1=16

The CSS file has the following entry which will be applied to the Field:

[user_attr1="16"] {
	color:blue; 
}

Note that the Custom Attribute is 'attr1' and that it is referred to in the CSS selector as 'user_attr1'. Also, that the value should be in quotes - here "16".

Custom Attributes should also have the 'user_' prefix specified when accessed using Lianja.get(), i.e.

Lianja.get("page1.section1.field1").user_attr1

UI State Selectors

UI State Selectors are special built-in Property Selectors for Canvas Section editable Advanced Controls.

Select based on whether the Mandatory attribute is true or false:

[lianja_uistate_mandatory="true"]

[lianja_uistate_mandatory="false"]

Select based on whether Validation returned true or false:

[lianja_uistate_valid="true"]

[lianja_uistate_valid="false"]

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