Custom Styling on Toolbox Items

[John Hewitt]

I have created a number of toolboxes(for showing different commands for different levels of user), but was wondering if there was any easy way to customize the styling for individual categories, such as by having a specified id/name from the toolbox XML that I can reference in the css.

I can see the standard css entries but they will effect all categories.  My initial thought is to be able to show a custom icon for each category.

Is/Could this be possible?

[Miguel]

Hi,

a reply just from my experience.

I have done the icon thing in two different ways:

1) Referring in CSS the ids given automatically to the toolbox items (':1', ':2', ..). The problem is that is hard to maintain: every time you change the toolbox you have to change the style file. And if you change the toolbox at runtime, it is still harder.

2) Loading the icons as a font (that seems to be the cool thing to do nowadays). So I just changed the names of categories to include the icon as a character.

You can see how the result here

http://sparqlblocks.org/demo/

By the way, I agree with you that it makes sense to have a method to configure the id/class given to the visual items.

Miguel

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[John Hewitt]

many thanks for the pointer - will go with a css font for the moment