Skin form — Components tab — Controls — Text inputs & Formatted text

Styles set here apply to the following types of text:

  • field text — text that a user types in a text input field ( pxTextInput ) or a text area ( pxTextArea )
  • placeholder text
  • error text that displays on an input field
  • character counter text
  • read-only text
  • purpose-specific fields

You can define the Standard style or create additional style formats.

A preview of the currently selected format displays to the right. You can also preview formats by clicking Run in the toolbar and selecting one of the following preview options: Run Process, Open Portal, Harness Preview, UI Gallery Preview, Skin Preview. In the Skin Preview, select the Controls tab.

Same formatting for Field, Error, Remaining Counter, and Read-Only Text Applies the same settings to Field, Error, Remaining Counter, and Read-Only Text. Clear this check box to define styles for each of these elements individually. Additional fields appear.

At run time, Error Text displays above the input field only if the value of Display Field-Level Errors , on the Display Options tab of the harness rule, is set to Displayed as Full Error Text. To see this in the Skin Preview, click in the Input field in the top panel, and then click a tab. If the value of Display Field-Level Errors in the harness rule is set to Displayed as Image with Tooltip, then the error message displays as tooltip using styles set in General>Errors. See Skin form — Components tab — General — Errors.

Define the appearance of the text for Field Text, Error, Remaining Counter (for text area controls only), and Read-Only Text.

Text

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 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.

Placeholder Text Color

Color Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d) or click the box next to the field to Choose a Color for the placeholder text. Use the Placeholder setting in the control parameters dialog to specify the text that appears.

Border and Background

Define the border and background of Field and Error.

Use browser styles for border and background To take advantage of styling features built into browsers (suggested), select this check box.

Clear this check box to override the browser styles and specify settings for field and error borders and backgrounds. Additional fields display.

Field Border and Error Border

As a best practice, select the Use browser styles for border and background check box to take advantage of styling features built into browsers, rather than specifying border styles.

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.

Field Background and Error Background

As a best practice, select the Use browser styles for border and background check box to take advantage of styling features built into browsers, rather than specifying background styles.

Use mixin  
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.

Input 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:
  • :hover – State of the control when a user points to the control or rests the pointer on the control.
  • :focus – State of the control when the field is in focus, for example, the state of a text field when it is ready to accept inputs.
  • :active – State of the control when the field is ready to be activated, for example, when a user has clicked the control but has not yet released the mouse button.
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.
  • Auto – Select this option to apply auto-generated styles for the control in this state. These styles are generated based on the applied control format and the mixins defined within the format.
  • Default – Select this option to apply the default browser styles for the states instead of generating the styles based on a skin or defined CSS in the application.
  • Custom – Select this option to define your own styles for the element in this state.

Creating a custom format

You can create custom text input formats that you can apply within your application.

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. Click the View properties 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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