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CSS Properties

CSS Properties

Mar 06, 2024

This page provides details of the properties for setting custom CSS, which is part of screen design.

Overview

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Use this tab to set custom CSS for components on a screen.

Field

Description

Field

Description

CSS Tag

The the CSS property.

Value

Enter the value for the property; see https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/.

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.

Expression

 to indicate the value is an expression.

State

Choose one of:

  • Focus - Applies when the component is selected e.g. the cursor is in a form field.

  • Mouse Down - Applies when the right-click of a mouse is pressed on the styled component.

  • Move Over - Applies when the user places the mouse over the styled component.

  • Read Only - Applies when the styled component is set to be read only.

  • Drag Over - Applies when a user drags a file over the styled component e.g. when uploading a file to a File Display component.

Order

The order in which the style element will be applied.

N-th Child

Optionally, enter a number to indicate the recurrence of this CSS formatting. For example to use this CSS for: 

  • alternate children, enter 2

  • every 5th child, enter 5.

N-th Child Offset

Optionally, specify where you want the formatting to start after the first child. For example, to apply the formatting to the second item, instead of the first, enter 2.

Using N-th Child and N-th Child Offset

Use N-th Child and N-th Child Offset to specify different formatting for children. The two fields together work as an ax + b expression, where:

  • a is the N-th Child

  • x is the current N-th Child

  • b is the N-th Child Offset 

For example, to apply the CSS formatting:

  • to the 5th child only, leave the N-th Child empty and set the N-th Child Offset to 5.

  • alternate children, starting with the second, (2, 4, 6...) set the N-th Child to 2 and the N-th Child Offset to 2.

  • not format the first 10 items, but then format every 3rd child (i.e. 11,14,17...), set the N-th Child to 3 and the N-th Child Offset to 11.

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