Questions and answers on how to customize the default look of Foswiki for your own needs, using style sheets. For configuring page elements, see
SlionSkinCustomization.
First Read: How to modify SlionSkin styles
SlionSkin uses 3 style sheets (attached to
SlionSkin):
- layout.css - the positioning of main page elements (blocks), widths and heights
- style.css - fonts, sizes, margins and paddings
- colors.css - border colors, text colors and background colors
When customizing your Foswiki installation, you can either choose to completely rewrite all css styles, or to selectively override some styles. The latter option is by far less time consuming, but all depends on your graphical wishes.
Changing the color scheme
Have a look at
SlionSkinColorSettings.
When you need lots of graphic changes: Rewriting CSS
* Set FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/layout.css
* Set FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/style.css
* Set FOSWIKI_COLORS_URL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/colors.css
When you need to make small adjustments: Adding to existing CSS
With CSS you cannot remove already defined classes, you can only add to it, or override existing styles.
Overriding default CSS is done with 3
preference settings:
USERLAYOUTURL
,
USERSTYLEURL
,
USERCOLORSURL
.
- Create a new topic that will contain your new CSS files
- Attach 1, 2 or 3 new style sheets to the topic, dependent on your CSS setup (if you don't change much, you might as well put everything in one CSS file, layout, margins and colors)
- Point the CSS preference settings in System.DefaultPreferences or Main.SitePreferences to your new files (below the
TWIKIXXXURL
preferences):
* Set USERLAYOUTURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/layout.css
* Set USERSTYLEURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/style.css
* Set USERCOLORSURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/colors.css
- If you use only little CSS and you've only attached one file, write:
* Set USERSTYLEURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/YourNewTopic/style.css
Instead of setting these preferences in
System.DefaultPreferences or
Main.SitePreferences, you can set these in your home topic, or in any other topic. Setting style URL preferences in:
User styles are always loaded after Foswiki styles.
The rest of this topic shows examples of small CSS changes.
Recipes
Hide the left bar
See example at:
SlionSkinCssCookbookNoLeftBar
Use different fonts
See example at:
SlionSkinCssCookbookFonts
No top bar
See example at:
SlionSkinCssCookbookNoTopBar
Centered page
See example at:
SlionSkinCssCookbookCenterPage
Centered page (with a border around the page)
See example at:
SlionSkinCssCookbookCenterPageBorder
Setting EditTablePlugin styles
See example at:
SlionSkinCssCookbookEditTableStyle
Style sheet documentation
See
SlionSkinCss for documentation of SlionSkin CSS classes