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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 jqxSlider.
  • jqx-widget – applied to jqxSlider widget.
  • jqx-slider – applied to jqxSlider widget.
  • jqx-slider-tick – applied to the slider ticks which.
  • jqx-slider-tick-horizontal - applied to the ticks when the slider is in horizontal mode.
  • jqx-slider-tick-vertical - applied to the ticks when the slider is in vertical mode.
  • jqx-slider-tickscontainer – applied to the ticks container.
  • jqx-slider-slider – applied to the slider's thumb.
  • jqx-slider-slider-vertical - applied to the thumb when the slider is in vertical mode.
  • jqx-slider-slider-horizontal - applied to the thumb when the slider is in horizontal mode.
  • jqx-slider-track – applied to the slide track.
  • jqx-slider-track-horizontal - applied to the track when the slider is in horizontal mode.
  • jqx-slider-track-vertical - applied to the track when the slider is in vertical mode.
  • jqx-slider-rangebar – applied to the slider to indicate the selected value. In range slider mode is applied to the space between the slider thumbs to indicate the selected values.
  • jqx-fill-state-pressed – applied to the slider to indicate the selected value. In range slider mode is applied to the space between the slider thumbs to indicate the selected values.
  • jqx-fill-state-hover - applied to a slider element under the mouse cursor.
  • jqx-fill-state-focus - applied to the slider's elements when the widget is on focus.
  • jqx-fill-state-disabled - applied to the slider when it is disabled.
When you create a custom style with colors and backgrounds for jqxSlider, you need to do the following:
  • Add the above CSS classes related to jqxSlider
  • After each CSS class, add your theme name.
    For example:
    jqx-slider-summer
  • To apply your custom style to jqxSlider, you need to set its 'theme' property(option) to point to your theme name string.
  • The sample below demonstrates how to set the 'Summer' theme to jqxSlider. 
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html lang="en">
    <head>
    <title>jQuery Slider Sample</title>
    <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/jqxbuttons.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxslider.js"></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>
    <div id='content'>
      <script type="text/javascript">
          $(document).ready(function () {
              $("#jqxslider").jqxSlider({ theme: 'summer', value: 7 });
          });
      </script>  
      <div id='jqxslider'></div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    You can see the result here: