TextBlock Font Color Properties

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TextBlock Font Color Properties

If your site is not using style sheets, click the Element Tool icon and then select Font. The TextBlock Font & Color Properties dialog lets you set font and color properties for a text block.

CommonSpot places the controls that modify one part of the displayed Element into groups. For example, a group can contain controls for setting:

Color - These controls exist for almost every kind of content. For example, this could be used when display a header, background, or item description. For more information, see Color.
Font - If an element has text, you can set the font used to display content. For example, you can set the font that is used when displaying a header, background, or item description. Notice that these are the content for which you can set colors. This is typical. For more information, see Font.
Use Link Color - Sets a link's color or let it display using a default. For more information, see Use Link Color.
Borders - For table displays, you can set border colors. For more information, see Borders.

Color Palette

You can set field color in two ways.

Color Palette - Click on the color or the color picker icon (they both do the same thing) to display the Color Palette dialog.

The tabs within this dialog are:

The Safe Palette tab lets you select colors that all display monitors are able to show. At one time, the number of colors that the monitor could display was limited. Choosing from these values meant that the browser could accurately depict the color you select. (If a "non-safe" color were chosen, the browser would simulate the color.) Few modern monitors have these constraints.
The Named Colors tab presents colors that have names that are defined in World Wide Web standards. Knowing these names can often be helpful. For example, a site administrator might tell you to use a color named Brown. Typically, a browser manufacturer adds additional names, and many are compatible across browsers.
If you see a Custom Colors tab, the tab was created at your site. See your site administrator for more information.

Color Text Field - Type the hexadecimal RGB (Red-Green-Blue) value where the first two colors represent red, and so on, into this text field. You must enter # before the hex value.

If the Element displays rows of information, this dialog will have an Alternate row check box. If you select this check box, you can enter the color that CommonSpot uses when displaying every other row using the controls that immediately follows.

Font

When setting the font that CommonSpot will use to display information, you can select the:

Font face (for example, Arial, Helvetica, and so on) from the Font drop down list. These are the fonts that a site administrator has set for your web site.
Size, which are relative sizes, such as x-small, small, medium, large, and so on.
Bold or italic display of the font face.

Use Link Color

When checked, CommonSpot uses the default link color (usually blue). When unchecked, the link displays using the font color.

Borders

CommonSpot lets you choose whether tables display with horizontal or vertical lines. In some cases, you can choose the color for these borders.

Related Links

You can download PDF versions of the Content Contributor's, Administrator's, and Elements Reference documents from the support section of paperthin.com (requires login).

The following guides are available from the support site and are in the /docs/directory of your CommonSpot Server:

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