Base Settings
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The Base Settings tab sets the style for container or layout selected in the Component styles tab. Select the Inherit from parent check box to use the parent styles. Inheriting parent styles disables editing of the base settings. The base settings must be edited on the parent skin when a skin inherits from a parent.

Text

Select the font family. The font family is the base font family for the header. Select the font size in pixels (px), points (pts), em (the current font size), or percentage (%), font size (pt, em, px percent) The font family is overriden by a parent style if present.

Base tag heading styles

Headings are important to HTML structure and mandatory for accessibility. Headings are a title referring to a page or a section of a page. Headings apply to the layout or container if a title is added in the property panel. The base settings in the skin set the style for the headings. Each container format in the skin can override the default heading styles.

Select a style from the drop down menu next to the style name. Pick a style from the available options.

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.

  • 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 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.

Layout

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.

 

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