Pattern skin
Pattern skin provides a CSS based default look and feel - flexible and
W3C compliant. Its layout and color scheme are designed to provide a nice, clean and productive editing environment
Select a theme to change the look, or tune the entire appearance with CSS or templates.
Browse available themes
You may quickly change the appearance of this skin by setting a theme.
Browse themes
Pattern skin has quite some flexibility out of the box. Try one of the provided themes or use them as inspiration for your own theme.
Other styling options
- Set
WEBHEADERART
(currently: /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkin/header2.gif
)
- Set
WEBBGCOLOR
(currently: #FFD8AA
)
Set these variables site wide in
SitePreferences.
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Information for site administrators
Creating your own look
If you want to make more changes than the themes on this page allow, you have the option to change CSS files and templates to make changes (small or large).
Template customization
PatternSkinCustomization - how to configure page elements.
Style sheet customization
PatternSkinCssCookbook - how to customize the visual style.
Changing graphics
The original Photoshop files of the skin graphics (mainly background images) are attached to
PatternSkinGraphics.
Top, Bottom and Left Bar customization
Most will customise top, bottom, and left bars.
- Topic
System.WebTopBar
defines the content of the top bar. If this topic does not exist the topic System.WebTopBarExample
will define the top bar. Foswiki does not ship with a WebTopBar
topic so by creating this topic as a copy of WebTopBarExample
and customizing the copy, you will not later risk that upgrading Foswiki will overwrite your top bar. The top bar is common for all webs.
- Topic
System.WebBottomBar
defines the content of the bottom bar. If this topic does not exist the topic System.WebBottomBarExample
will define the bottom bar. Foswiki does not ship with a WebBottomBar
topic so by creating this topic as a copy of WebBottomBarExample
and customizing the copy, you will not later risk that upgrading Foswiki will overwrite your bottom bar. The bottom bar is common for all webs.
- Topic
WebLeftBar
defines the content of the left bar. Each web has its own WebLeftBar
. If this topic does not exist the topic WebLeftBarExample
will define the left bar. Foswiki does not ship with WebLeftBar
topics so by creating these topics as copies of WebLeftBarExample
and customizing the copies, you will not later risk that upgrading Foswiki will overwrite your left bars. You can choose to display the WebLeftBar
on the right side of the screen.
See these topics for more information:
WebLeftBarCookbook,
WebLeftBarExample,
WebLeftBarLogin,
WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate,
WebLeftBarSearch,
WebLeftBarWebsList,
WebTopBarExample, and
WebBottomBarExample.
Installation
Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this skin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the skin on the server where Foswiki is running.
Note 2: PatternSkin is included with Foswiki by default. Use the following instructions only if you are upgrading PatternSkin.
- Download the ZIP file from the Skin Home page (see below)
- Unzip
PatternSkin.zip
in your Foswiki installation directory
- Test if installed
- For skin activation see Skins
To set pattern skin as default (site wide) skin, use these settings in
SitePreferences:
- Global skin styles. To change the look of the site, point these variables to custom CSS attachments.
- Set FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/layout.css
- Set FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/style.css
- Set FOSWIKI_COLORS_URL = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/colors.css
- Themes that add upon the global skin styles. Choose from the Theme Browser at PatternSkin.
- Set PATTERNSKIN_THEME_VARIANT = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/variant_foswiki_noframe.css
- Set PATTERNSKIN_COLUMNS = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/column_left.css
- Overriding styles that add upon the global and theme styles. Enabled by default but empty to prevent browsers from fetching %USERLAYOUTURL%-style URLs.
- Set USERLAYOUTURL =
- Set USERSTYLEURL =
- Set USERCOLORSURL =
- Set WEBHEADERART =
- Set WEBHEADERBGCOLOR =
Troubleshooting
If you have set the SKIN setting to
pattern
and you still don't see the layout as on the
screenshot, a few settings in may have been disabled.
Check these
preference settings here:
- FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/layout.css
- FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/style.css
- FOSWIKI_COLORS_URL = /foswiki/pub/System/PatternSkinTheme/colors.css
- SKIN = tagme,pattern
If
FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL
or
FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL
don't give a value or point to non-existing files, check in
DefaultPreferences and in
SitePreferences that the following preferences do exist and that they are set to on:
* %SYSTEMWEB%.PatternSkin settings:
* Set FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/PatternSkinTheme/layout.css
* Set FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/PatternSkinTheme/style.css
* Set FOSWIKI_COLORS_URL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/PatternSkinTheme/colors.css
NOTE: customization of these values should be done in
SitePreferences
If this still does not work, contact the administrator who installs skins.
For further troubleshooting and feedback, go to
http://foswiki.org/Support/PatternSkin.
All PatternSkin topics
Skin Info
Copyright: |
© Arthur Clemens |
Screenshot: |
|
Preview: |
Preview with this skin |
Base Name: |
pattern |
Version: |
9926 (2010-11-09) |
Release: |
5.4.2 |
History: |
|
09 Nov 2010: |
v.5.4.2: Remove redundant files from repository. v.5.4.1: Revert usage of $percent back to $percnt |
19 Aug 2010: |
v.5.4 - Version for Foswiki 1.1. |
31 Jul 2010: |
v.5.3.1 - Documentation updates |
27 May 2010: |
v.5.3 - Added "flexible width" column styles. |
05 Apr 2010: |
v.5.2 - Visual update. |
04 Apr 2010: |
v.5.1 - Added Foswiki site skin as theme, including horizontal navigation topic; see PatternSkinHorizontalNavigationExample. |
04 Apr 2010: |
v.5.0 - Changed themes from single css file to file collections to preserve older appearance and to provide bigger restyling within a theme. |
12 Mar 2010: |
v.4.0.9 - Fixes printing in Firefox 3.6. |
23 Feb 2010: |
v.4.0.8 - Signature format can be set in preference SIGNATUREFORMAT . |
17 Jan 2010: |
v.4.0.7 - Repeat search phrase in search box. Version for Foswiki 1.0.9 |
07 Dec 2009: |
v.4.0.6 - Remove spurious newline from attachagain template. Add support for new option to work around IE8 bug with slow/erratic textareas. Fix printing in Safari (thanks Foswiki:Main.MichaelMoss). Remove bogus info on setting view template on topic creation (thanks Foswiki:Main.MartinKaufmann). Make action buttons easier to skin. Fix textareabuttons not displayed when NOWYSIWYG=1. |
29 Sep 2009: |
v.4.0.5 - Fixed broken link in PatternSkinCustomization. Fix code/pre white-space styling. Make behaviour javascript work with IE8. Add clear:both to the css for the .foswikiContentFooter - that way it could be over-ridden by a subskin. Made links in headers should look like links. |
07 Sep 2009: |
v.4.0.4 - Consolidated versions in trunk and release branch. Version for Foswiki 1.0.7. |
26 Jul 2009: |
v.4.0.3 - Fixes a couple of minor template/css bugs. |
18 Jan 2009: |
v.4.0.2 - Fix printing with theme theme_foswiki and column_right . |
17 Jan 2009: |
v.4.0.1 - Fix reading of WEBHEADERART variable. |
30 Nov 2008: |
v.4.0.0 - Foswiki 1.0.0 RELEASE VERSION |
03 Aug 2008: |
v.3.0.1 - TWiki 4.2.1 (Edinburgh) RELEASE VERSION |
13 Jul 2007: |
v.3.0.0 - TWiki 4.2.0 (Edinburgh) RELEASE VERSION |
15 Jan 2006: |
v.2.0.6 - TWiki 4.1.0 (Edinburgh) RELEASE VERSION |
26 Sep 2006: |
v.2.0.5 - Fixed form background colors |
22 Jul 2006: |
v.2.0.4 - Refactored info in colors.css; fixed textarea color |
26 Jun 2006: |
v.2.0.3 - TWiki 4.0.3 (Dakar) RELEASE VERSION |
31 Jan 2006: |
v.2.0.0 - TWiki 4.0.0 (Dakar) RELEASE VERSION |
28 Aug 2004: |
v.1.0.9 - TWiki 3.0 (Cairo) RELEASE VERSION |
08 Aug 2004: |
Initial version (v1.0.0) |
Dependencies: |
Foswiki:Extensions/TwistyPlugin (automatically provided with Foswiki) |
Skin Home: |
http://foswiki.org/Extensions/PatternSkin |
Support: |
http://foswiki.org/Support/PatternSkin |
Feedback
Leave remarks, suggestions and other feedback in
http://foswiki.org/Support/PatternSkin.