Defines a style attribute on blocks displayed in HTML presentation.

The Style of blocks extraction rule is used to change the presentation style of webized screen elements. It adds a style attribute to blocks matching its selection parameters. The value of this attribute is a string in CSS format either:

• built by Convertigo using the different properties of the rule,
• or directly defined in the Free style property by Convertigo programmer.

With appropriate XSL templates, this attribute is used to change the style of the displayed blocks.
Notes:

• The Style of blocks rule is used on static (i.e. non editable) blocks.
• Only the style attribute is added to extracted XML elements.
• Since this rule does not create a new block type, it does not involve any specific XSL stylesheet. However, the static XSL template does use the style attribute.
• There is no need for the Convertigo developer to know CSS syntax to use this extraction rule (unless he/she wants to use the Free Style parameter).

Property Type Category Description
Background color int configuration Defines the background color of the block.
The color is chosen into a list of colors.
Bold boolean configuration Defines whether the font is bold or not.
Border boolean configuration Defines whether the element has a border or not.
Border color int configuration Defines the element border color.
The color is chosen into a list of colors.
Border width String configuration Defines the border width (in pixels).
Comment String configuration Describes the object comment to include in the documentation report.
This property generally contains an explanation about the object.
Font color int configuration Defines the font color.
The color is chosen into a list of colors.
Font family int configuration Defines the font family.
The font family is chosen into a list of fonts.
Font size String configuration Defines the font size (pt for point, px for pixel).
Free style String configuration CSS formatted style, takes place of other styles defined here.
If used, this parameter overrides all other parameters. The Convertigo developer can input a string to be used as value for the style XML attribute. In order to be compatible with Convertigo default XSL templates, this string must be in proper CSS syntax.
Is active boolean configuration Defines whether the extraction rule is active.
Is final boolean configuration Defines if the extraction is final, i.e. whether pending extraction rules should try to match on the current extraction rule matching blocks.

If set to true, once the rule applies on a matching block, Convertigo doesn’t apply the following rules on this block. This can be used to prevent a block from being modified by other rules.
Italic boolean configuration Defines whether the font is italic or not.
Underlined boolean configuration Defines whether the font is underlined or not.
Attributes int selection Defines the presentation attributes on which the rule applies, i.e. the rule applies on blocks matching these presentation attributes.
This property allows to configure the rule so that it applies only to parts of screens having specific attributes, for example green text on black background.
Presentation attributes to configure are :

• Color: Foreground color, Background color, to choose in a list of predefined colors or “not to take into account”.
• Decoration: bold, reverse, underlined, blink, for each decoration choose between “with the decoration”, “normal” (i.e. without the decoration), or “not to take into account”.
Screen zone XMLRectangle selection Defines the screen zone on which the rule applies, i.e. the rule applies on blocks completely contained in this screen area.
This property allows to configure the rule so that it applies only to areas of screens. All blocks found within the specified perimeter are matching this screen zone and can be processed by the rule.
The screen area is defined through four coordinates:

• x (area left corner),
• y (area upper corner),
• w (area width),
• h (area height).

All values are given in characters, with the upper left corner being (x=0, y=0).
-1 represents an undefined value: (x=-1, y=-1, w=-1, h=-1) is an undefined area representing the whole screen, i.e. all blocks, whatever their coordinates, are matching this screen zone and can be processed by the rule.
Type String selection Defines, using a regular expression, to which block types the rule applies.
For example, if set to:

• static, the rule applies to blocks of static type only.
• static | field, the rule applies to blocks of static or field type only.
• [^field], the rule applies to all but field type blocks.

Notes:

• For more information about regular expression patterns, see the following page: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html.
• To test regular expressions, you can use the regular expression tester at the following URL: http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html.