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Customize the Validation Confirm widget

The SpryValidationConfirm.css file provides the default styling for the Validation Confirm widget. You can, however, customize the widget by changing the appropriate CSS rule. The CSS rules in the SpryValidationConfirm.css file use the same class names as the related elements in the widget’s HTML code, so it’s easy for you to know which CSS rules correspond to the widget and its error states.

The SpryValidationConfirm.css file should already be included in your website before you start customizing. For more information, see Prepare your files.

Style a Validation Confirm widget (general instructions)

  1. Open the SpryValidationConfirm.css file.
  2. Locate the CSS rule for the part of the widget to change. For example, to change the background color of the Confirm widget’s required state, edit the input.confirmRequiredState rule in the SpryValidationConfirm.css file.
  3. Make your changes to the CSS and save the file.

The SpryValidationConfirm.css file contains extensive comments, explaining the code and the purpose for certain rules. For further information, see the comments in the file.

Style Validation Confirm widget error message text

By default, error messages for the Validation Confirm widget appear in red with a 1-pixel solid border surrounding the text.

 To change the text styling of Validation Confirm widget error messages, use the following table to locate the appropriate CSS rule, and then change the default properties, or add your own text-styling properties and values.

Text to change

Relevant CSS rule

Relevant properties to change

Error message text

.confirmRequiredState .confirmRequiredMsg, .confirmInvalidState .confirmInvalidMsg

color: #CC3333; border: 1px solid #CC3333;

Change Validation Confirm widget background colors

 To change the background colors of the Validation Confirm widget in various states, use the following table to locate the appropriate CSS rule, and then change the default background color values.

Color to change

Relevant CSS rule

Relevant property to change

Background color of widget in valid state

.confirmValidState input, input.confirmValidState

background-color: #B8F5B1;

Background color of widget in invalid state

input.confirmRequiredState, .confirmRequiredState input, input.confirmInvalidState, .confirmInvalidState input

background-color: #FF9F9F;

Background color of widget in focus

.confirmFocusState input, input.confirmFocusState

background-color: #FFFFCC;

Customize state-related class names

While you can replace error-message-related class names with class names of your own by changing the rules in the CSS code and the class names in the HTML code, you cannot change or replace state-related class names, because the behaviors are hard-coded as part of the Spry framework. You can, however, override the default state-related class name with your own class name by specifying a new value in the third parameter of the widget constructor.

 To change widget state-related class names, add one of the overriding options to the third parameter of the widget constructor, and specify your custom class name, as follows: 
<script type="text/javascript">
	var ConfirmWidgetObject = new Spry.Widget.ValidationConfirm("ConfirmWidget", "password1", {requiredClass: "required", invalidClass: "invalid" ,validClass: "valid"});
</script>

The following table provides a list of options you can use to override built-in state-related class names.

Option

Description

requiredClass

Overrides the .confirmRequiredState built-in value

invalidClass

Overrides the .confirmInvalidState built-in value

validClass

Overrides the .confirmValidState built-in value

focusClass

Overrides the .confirmFocusState built-in value

additionalError

Lets you display error messages in a concentrated area on the page, inside an element whose ID is different from that of the widget container. When you use this option, all widget state classes that get applied to the main widget container are also applied to the additional element.