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Styling and Appearance

jQWidgets uses a pair of css files - jqx.base.css and jqx.[theme name].css. The base stylesheet creates the styles related to the widget's layout like margin, padding, border-width, position. The second css file applies the widget's colors and backgrounds. The jqx.base.css should be included before the second CSS file.

Below is the list of CSS classes used by jqxNavigationBar.
  • jqx-widget - applied to the jqxNavigationBar widget.
  • jqx-navigationbar - applied to the jqxNavigationBar.
  • jqx-expander-header - applied to the expander's header.
  • jqx-widget-header - applied to the header elements.
  • jqx-fill-state-normal - applied to the header elements.
  • jqx-expander-content - applied to the content elements.
  • jqx-widget-content - applied to the content elements.
  • jqx-expander-arrow - applied to the header's expand/collapse button.
  • jqx-expander-arrow-top - applied to the expander's expand/collapse button and displays arrow icon.
  • jqx-expander-arrow-bottom - applied to the expander's expand/collapse button and displays arrow icon.
  • jqx-expander-header-hover - applied to a hovered header element.
  • jqx-fill-state-hover - applied to a hovered header element.
  • jqx-fill-state-pressed - applied to an expanded header element.
  • jqx-fill-state-focus - applied to focused Content or Header elements.
  • jqx-fill-state-disabled - applied to the jqxNavigationBar when it is disabled.
When you create a custom style with colors and backgrounds for jqxNavigationBar, you need to do the following:
  • Add the above CSS classes related to jqxnavigationbar
  • After each CSS class, add your theme name.
    For example:
    jqx-navigationbar-summer
  • To apply your custom style to jqxnavigationbar, you need to set its 'theme' property(option) to point to your theme name string. 
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            // Create jqxNavigationBar
            $("#jqxnavigationbar").jqxNavigationBar({ theme: 'summer', width: 200, height: 200 });
        });
    </script>
  • The sample below demonstrates how to set the 'Summer' theme to jqxNavigationBar. 
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
    <head>
       <title>jQuery Navigation Bar - CSS Styling Sample</title>
        <meta name="keywords" content="jQuery NavigationBar Widget, Accordion, jqxNavigationBar, jQuery Widgets, jQuery Plugins, jQuery UI Widgets, jQuery UI" /> 
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jqwidgets/styles/jqx.summer.css" type="text/css" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxexpander.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxnavigationbar.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function () {
                // Create jqxNavigationBar
                $("#jqxnavigationbar").jqxNavigationBar({ width: 200, height: 200, theme: 'summer' });
            });
        </script>
    <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-2FX5PV9DNT"></script><script>window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}gtag('js', new Date());gtag('config', 'G-2FX5PV9DNT');</script></head>
    <body class='default'>
        <div id='jqxnavigationbar'>
            <!--Header-->
            <div>
                Header 1</div>
            <!--Content-->
            <div>
                Content 1
            </div>
            <!--Header-->
            <div>
                Header 2</div>
            <!--Content-->
            <div>
                Content 2
            </div>
            <!--Header-->
            <div>
                Header 3</div>
            <!--Content-->
            <div>
                Content 3
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
    </html>