Overview of Hosted Sign In Pages

A Hosted Sign In page allows you to customize the look and feel of the identity domain sign-in experience by using style classes, custom HTML, and translation support.

Learn about Hosted Sign In pages:

Create a Hosted Sign In page:

Customize the Login Experience

You can customize the login experience using one or both of the following methods.

Add your own Background image to the sign-in page.

Background images provided for the sign-in page in the Branding settings apply for all the sign-in flows. See Customizing the Sign-In Page Branding.

Provide custom HTML and custom translations using Hosted Sign In.

Hosted Sign In provides custom HTML and custom translations, in order to overwrite the current sign-in page definition. This customization applies to the main sign-in page. It doesn't affect all sign-in flows, for example, it doesn't affect the reset password and MFA flows.

The Hosted Sign In page:
  • Allows you to change current styles and to add new HTML elements.
  • Supports translations for existing elements as well as new elements.

See Creating a Hosted Sign-In Page.

Assumptions

  • The feature is based on JET 7.2. All browsers that support JET 7.2 can use this feature.
  • Administrators are familiar with existing style classes in the sign-in page.

Limitations

  • HTML Comments (<!-- comment -->) aren't allowed.
  • Adding custom JavaScript isn't allowed.

  • The <style> tag isn't allowed. But you can only use an inline style of elements, for example <div style="property: value, ...">

  • There is no code validation. Use the Preview option to verify that your custom code is valid.

  • A limited set of style properties is available.
    • align-items:
    • background-color:
    • background:
    • border-radius:
    • border:
    • box-shadow:
    • content:
    • display:
    • height:
    • justify-content:
    • left:
    • margin-top:
    • margin:
    • max-height:
    • max-width:
    • min-height:
    • padding-left:
    • padding-right:
    • padding:
    • position:
    • text-align:
    • top:
    • width:
  • A limited set of HTML tags is available.
    • div
    • img
    • image
    • label
    • input
    • h1
    • h2
    • h3
    • span
    • style

Understand the Custom HTML

When Hosted Sign In is enabled for the first time, default HTML code is provided. You customize this code to define your Hosted Sign In page. This new code becomes your custom HTML.

Use this default HTML code as a template for your custom HTML. The code is fully functional, which means that the Hosted Sign In page will work even if nothing is changed.

Default HTML

<!--
    NOTE:
    Comments on this code are not displayed in the custom HTML area of Hosted Sign-in page,
    they are just for documentation purposes
-->
 
 
<!-- classes starting with oj-flex are JET util classes for layout -->
<div class="oj-flex oj-sm-flex-direction-column">
 
 
  <!-- classes named oj-idaas-xxx , like oj-idaas-signin-app-shell or oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-background are the default classes assigned to sign-in page -->
  <div id="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-background" class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-background">
    <div class="oj-flex oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-wrapper oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-wrapper-background">
      <div class="oj-flex-item oj-sm-12 oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-left oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-right">
        <div class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-branding-logo-wrapper">
           
          <!--
               This image with id = custom-idaas-signin-branding-logo displays
               the sign-in page customer logo or the default logo (if no custom logo is provided)
          -->
          <img id="custom-idaas-signin-branding-logo" class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-branding-logo"/>
 
        </div>
 
 
        <!-- oj-idaas-signin-section displays the company name and welcome text -->
        <oj-idaas-signin-section id="custom-idaas-signin-section"></oj-idaas-signin-section>
 
      </div>
      <div class="oj-flex-item oj-sm-12 oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-content-wrapper">
 
 
        <!-- oj-idaas-signin-message displays the error and warning messages, DO NOT REMOVE this section -->
        <oj-idaas-signin-message id="custom-idaas-signin-message"></oj-idaas-signin-message>
 
        <div class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-left oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-right">
 
 
          <!--
            DO NOT REMOVE.
            oj-bind-slot tag, provides the core functionality of the sign-in page, it is the main widget.
            This will generate the area where username and password are entered
          -->
          <oj-bind-slot name="content"></oj-bind-slot>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Customized HTML Example

<!--
    NOTE:
    In this example two new labels are added by using a div tag. The text in the div tags is dynamically inserted by
    providing translations (see translations section below).
-->
<div class="oj-flex oj-sm-flex-direction-column">
  <div id="idcs-app-shell-signin-background" class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-background">

    <!-- Example of how the inline style can be applied -->
    <div class="oj-flex" style="margin:20px 0;width:520px;min-height:400px;padding:50px 0;position:absolute;top:0px;left:16px;background-color:#ffffff;border-radius:6px">
      <div class="oj-flex-item oj-sm-12 oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-left oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-right">
        <div class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-branding-logo-wrapper">

          <!--
            These two div tags are new elements (labels) introduced in the page, it is important to assign
            a data-idcs-text-translation-id id to each new element introduced, this id will be used to apply the translated text to the element.
            If the text doesn't have to be translated, no id is required and you can hardcode the text in the element.
          -->
          <h2 data-idcs-text-translation-id="welcometext" id="any1"> </h2>
          <h3 data-idcs-text-translation-id="welcometext2" id="any3"> </h3>

          <img id="custom-idaas-signin-branding-logo" class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-branding-logo" />
        </div>
        <oj-idaas-signin-section id="custom-idaas-signin-section"></oj-idaas-signin-section>
      </div>
      <div class="oj-flex-item oj-sm-12 oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-content-wrapper">
        <oj-idaas-signin-message id="custom-idaas-signin-message"></oj-idaas-signin-message>
        <div class="oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-left oj-idaas-signin-app-shell-padding-right">
          <oj-bind-slot name="content"></oj-bind-slot>
        </div>
      </div>

    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Understand How Translations Work

Hosted Sign In allows you to specify translations for existing elements as well as new elements for your custom HTML code.

The default translations value is {}, which means there are no translations provided for the custom HTML code.

The Structure of Translations

Each attribute represents a label, the key is data-idcs-text-translation-id, and the value is an object containing the different languages and the translated strings. The following example has translations for existing elements (idcs-username-label), as well as new elements (welcometext).
{
  "idcs-username-label": {
    "en": "Account ID",
    "es": "Cuenta de usuario o correo Electronico"
  },
  "idcs-username-placeholder": {
    "en": "Enter your Account ID",
    "es": "Introduzca su nombre de usuario o correo electronico"
  },
  "idcs-password-label": {
    "en": "Pass-word",
    "es": "Contra-sena"
  },
  "idcs-password-placeholder": {
    "en": "Enter your password",
    "es": "Introduzca su contrasena"
  },
  "welcometext": {
    "en": "Welcome to our Portal",
    "es": "Bienvenido"
  },
  "welcometext2": {
    "en": "This is great",
    "es": "Bienvenido"
  }
} 
The following existing elements can be customized in the sign-in page. To customize the existing elements, the following reserve IDs must be used.
  • Element: username label
  • Reserve ID: idcs-username-label
  • Element: username placeholder (help text inside the username field)
  • Reserve ID: idcs-username-placeholder
  • Element: password label
  • Reserve ID: idcs-password-label
  • Element: password placeholder (help text inside the username field)
  • Reserve ID: idcs-password-placeholder

Translating New Labels

If a new label is introduced in the Hosted Sign In page, by using <div>, <span> or header tags like <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, and so on, a translation ID (data-idcs-text-translation-id) must be provided for them. For example, use <div data-idcs-text-translation-id="instructions"></div> where data-idcs-text-translation-id of the element is used to provide a translated text.

Use the Backup URL to Recover the Sign In Page

If changes made to the Hosted Sign-in code break the sign-in flow (for example, removing core components), administrators can use this URL to sign in with the default login page and gain access to the identity domain.

Create a backup URL like the following: <hostname:[port]>/ui/v1/signin?noBranding=true

Note

Logos won't appear correctly in the recovery sign-in page as this is just a recovery mechanism.