Items Widget Styling Walkthrough#

This page will guide you through how to customize the React Items widget’s font size and card background properties using the Emotion library.

Objectives#

The goal of this walkthrough is to change the following styles in the React Items widget:

  • Title font size

  • Card background color, border-radius, and padding

For a general overview of how to style React widgets, see How To Style React Widgets.

Base Widget#

Below is a screen capture of what the Items widget looks like by default:

Squirro Storybook Controls

Step 1 - Determine the Components Requiring Styling#

To determine the components that require styling, follow the steps below:

  1. Open Squirro Storybook.

  2. Find the Items widget in the left menu.

  3. Select Single Card > Primary.

Items Card Storybook

Step 2 - Use the Controls Menu to Match Configurations#

The example Items Single Card shown in Step 1 is configured differently from the example base widget.

Using the Controls section, configure the Storybook widget to match the base widget’s properties.

This requires setting the showThumbnail and showAvatar boolean values to false as shown below:

Items Boolean Values

Result: The preview widget now looks the same as the base widget.

Step 3 - Identify The Components Requiring Styling#

Now that the preview card is configured properly, you can identify the specific components requiring styling using the Components Inspector* feature.

Items Boolean Values

Hovering over the title shows the CardTitle component. Clicking it brings up the Squirro Storybook page for the CardTitle component.

Items Boolean Values

Under Controls, you can see that the variant property allows you to modify the CardTitle styling, but none of the variants change the font size on its own, which is the goal here.

Knowing that you can’t modify only the font size by changing a property value, you must apply custom styling to the CardTitle component.

Step 4 - Create the Custom Widget File#

Your next step is to create a custom widget file in the Squirro Widget Editor.

To do so, follow the steps below:

  1. Open your Squirro project.

  2. Navigate to Setup > Visualization.

  3. Click Custom Widgets in the left menu.

  4. Click the Plus Icon to create a new widget.

  5. Click the last tab, React.

  6. Click the Items card.

  7. Create a new widget named CardTitle.

  8. In the editor, create a New File and title it CardTitle.js.

Step 5 - Style the CardTitle Component#

With your CardTitle.js file created, enter the following code to override base styling.

const CustomCardTitle = styled(Overrides.Items.CardTitle)(() => ({
    fontSize: 20
}));

export default (props) => <CustomCardTitle {...props}></CustomCardTitle>

This creates a new variable called CustomCardTitle with a newly-styled title component. The CardTitle component is passed to the styled and the new font size is applied.

The last line of code exports the new component with all the properties passed to it. These properties will always be documented in Storybook. In this example, the props object contains variant, color, and titleContent properties.

Step 6 - Reference The Custom File in Main.js#

After the custom file is created, you need to override the default CardTitle with your new one.

To do so, open main.js and change the overrides property as shown below:

const overrides = {
    ...Overrides.Items,
    CardTitle: Resources.resolved['CardTitle.js'],
};

export default (props) => {
    return (
        <div>
            <Widgets.Items {...props} overrides={overrides}/>
        </div>
    );
};

You can verify the styling is working correctly by clicking Run in the top-right toolbar of the Widget Editor.

Note that clicking Save will not preview your changes if you do not first Run them.