Styles
A style is a container for a set of CSS properties. A style can be assigned to objects, such as a layout component. You can also use it to provide default formatting, for example on selected grid rows.
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The properties tab for a Layout also has a Style Settings section where you can select options to format the border, background, font etc. PhixFlow combines any style settings and CSS properties. |
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For each style, set:
Basic Settings
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| CSS Tag | The the CSS property. | ||||||||
| Value | Enter the value for the property; see https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/. From PhixFlow 8.0.2 onwards, if the value is an expression, you can use the internal variable _current to refer to all the data in the current row of a grid. | ||||||||
| State | Choose one of:
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| Order | The order in which the style element will be applied. | ||||||||
| Cycle Size | Optionally enter a number to indicate the recurrence of this CSS formatting. For example to use this CSS for:
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| Offset | Optionally specify where you want the cycle to start after the first child. For example, to apply the formatting to the second item, instead of the first, enter 2. |
Using Cycle Size and Offset
Use Cycle Size and Offset to specify different formatting for children of the layout. The two fields together work as an ax + b expression, where:
ais the cycle size,xis the current cyclebis the offset.
For example, to apply the CSS formatting:
- to the 5th child only, leave the Cycle Size empty and set the Offset to 5.
- alternate children, starting with the second, (2, 4, 6...) set the Cycle Size to 2 and the Offset to 2.
- not format the first 10 items, but then format every 3rd child (i.e. 11,14,17...), set the Cycle Size to 3 and the Offset to 11.