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Modifying Applet Colors


There are three major applet styles in your Siebel application: Parent, Child, and Grandchild. The applet styles define the color of the tab that appears at the top of the applet and the color of the control bar where applet-level menus and buttons appear. In the cascading style sheet, the selectors for each applet style are:

Each applet style is defined by sub-elements To modify the appearance of each applet style, you modify the definitions for the following sub-elements:

To modify the applet color scheme

  1. Open dCCmain.css.
  2. Locate the following selectors for parent style applets and modify the attributes as shown.
  3. Selector
    CSS Attribute
    Modified Value

    AppletStyle1.AppletButtons

    Background-color

    #3366CC

    AppletStyle1.AppletBorder

    Background-color

    #3366CC

    AppletStyle1.AppletTitle

    Background-color

    #3366CC

    AppletStyle1.AppletTitle

    Color

    #FFFFFF

  4. Locate the following child applet selectors and modify the attributes as shown in the table.
  5. Selector
    CSS Attribute
    Modified Value

    AppletStyle3 AppletButtons

    Background-color

    #BDD3FF

    AppletStyle3 AppletBorder

    Background-color

    #BDD3FF

    AppletStyle3 AppletTitle

    Background-color

    #BDD3FF

  6. Locate the following grandchild applet selectors and modify the values for the subelements as shown.
  7. Selector
    CSS Attribute
    Modified Value

    AppletStyle7 AppletButtons

    Background-color

    #BDD3FF

    AppletStyle7 AppletBorder

    Background-color

    #BDD3FF

    AppletStyle7 AppletTitle

    Background-color

    #BDD3FF

    AppletStyle7 AppletTitle

    Color

    #003399

  8. Save your changes and move the file to your test machine.
  9. The background color scheme on parent and child applets reflects the changes.

    Figure 28 shows the modified applet color scheme.


 Developing and Deploying Siebel eBusiness Applications 
 Published: 18 April 2003