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< | You can easily create your own TWiki look by attaching modified css files to your home page:
- If you want to change the layout of the page, download layout.css from PatternSkin
- If you want to change the spacing or colors, download style.css from PatternSkin
- modify the CSS in either style sheet, using tips from this page
- attach your modified layout.css and/or style.css to your home page
- as shown below, add the
USERLAYOUTURL and USERSTYLEURL settings to your home page
* Personal TWiki.PatternSkin CSS settings
* Set USERLAYOUTURL = %PUBURL%/%MAINWEB%/%WIKINAME%/layout.css
* Set USERSTYLEURL = %PUBURL%/%MAINWEB%/%WIKINAME%/style.css
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> | How can I change the web logo? |
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- The topic part - contains besides the topic content: action buttons, form table, attachment table, topic info
- Top bar - used for a logo, contains Go box
- Left bar - site and web navigation, contains a personal link block; may contain a Go box
- Bottom bar - copyright, disclaimer
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- Top bar: WebTopBar
- Left bar: included topic WebLeftBar (one WebLeftBar topic per web)
- Personal links block: Main.%USERNAME%LeftBar. Your own personal leftbar: Main.guestLeftBar
- Bottom bar: included topic WebBottomBar
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* Set WEBLOGONAME = logo.gif
* Set WEBLOGOIMG = %PUBURLPATH%/%BASEWEB%/%WEBPREFSTOPIC%/%WEBLOGONAME%
* Set WEBLOGOURL = %SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%BASEWEB%/%HOMETOPIC%
* Set WEBLOGOALT = Home
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- Create a new image named
logo.gif and attach it to the web's WebPreferences topic. PatternSkin's stylesheet assumes the logo is 40px high. More about that later.
- You can also upload the image with FTP to
/pub/YourWeb/WebPreferences/.
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* Set WEBLOGONAME = your-logo-name.gif-or-png
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To change only the web logo image to site-wide, in Main.TWikiPreferences set:
* Set WEBLOGOIMG = %WIKILOGOIMG%
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* *Group*
* [[SomeTopic][Link 1]]
* [[AnotherTopic][Link 2]]
* [[ThirdTopic][Link 3]]
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The top bar is 64 pixels high by default. If you have a bigger logo you might want to change the height of the top bar in layout.css: |
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#patternLeftBar {
top:64px; /*C3*/
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#patternTopBar,
#patternTopBar table.patternTopBarContents {
height:64px; /*C3*/
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> | (C3 is used as reference to all occurrences with the same value)
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Add this to layout.css:
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margin-left:0px;
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.twikiLeftBar {
margin-left:100%;
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.twikiBottomBar {
margin-left:1em;
margin-right:0;
padding:0; |
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height:100%;
width:100%;
vertical-align:middle; |
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Add this to style.css:
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padding-left:1em;
padding-right:1em;
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.twikiBottomBarContents {
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height:100%;
width:100%;
vertical-align:top; |
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height:100%;
width:100%;
vertical-align:top;
padding-top:12px;
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The bottom bar contains the copyright disclaimer, but may contain other information, perhaps a web list.
Customizing the logo
The top bar is 60 pixels high, and has a padding of 5 pixels on top, bottom and left, so the logo should be 50 pixels high. If your logo image has a different size, you can either alter the padding in style.css (.twikiTopBarContents) or change the top bar height in layout.css (look for the comment setting the height of the top bar).
You can also choose to set a background image for the top bar. In style.css, add this to .twikiTopBar:
background-position:top left;
background-attachment:fixed;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-image:url(http://absolute_path_to_your_image);
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html body {
font-family:"Lucida Grande", verdana, lucida, helvetica, sans-serif;
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h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family:"Lucida Grande", helvetica, lucida, verdana, sans-serif;
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textarea {
font-family:monospace;
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input, select {
font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;
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.twikiSeparator {
font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
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.twikiEditPage .twikiSig input {
font-family:monospace;
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* Set WEBHEADERART = %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/TWiki_header.gif
* Set WEBHEADERBGCOLOR = somehexcolor
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<-- /* -->
html body {
... (keep)
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html>body {
... (keep)
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html body {
font-size:11px;
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* Set WEBHEADERBGCOLOR = %WEBBGCOLOR%
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<div id="patternTopBar">
<table class="patternTopBarContents" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<span class="patternTopBarLogo twikiLeft">
<a href="%WEBLOGOURL%"><img src="%WEBLOGOIMG%" border="0" alt="%WEBLOGOALT%"/></a>
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
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border-collapse:collapse;
padding:0px;
border-spacing:0px;
empty-cells:show;
border:0px;
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.twikiTopic table th {
background-color:#ccc;
padding:0.5em 1em;
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.twikiTopic table td {
border:1px solid #eee;
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/* override hardcoded font color */
.twikiTopic table font {
color:#1e5bbd;
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.twikiTopic table th a:link,
.twikiTopic table th a:visited {
color:#1e5bbd;
text-decoration:none;
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/* don't show hover background color because we have a table header background */
.twikiTopic table th a:hover {
background-color:transparent;
text-decoration:underline;
border-width:1px;
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/* no underline if a sort indicator (line) is displayed */
.twikiTopic table th.twikiSortedDescendingCol a:hover,
.twikiTopic table th.twikiSortedAscendingCol a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
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/* hide sort icons */
.twikiTopic table th img,
.twikiTopic table th a:link img,
.twikiTopic table th a:visited img {
display:none;
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white-space:nowrap;
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See PatternSkinCssCookbookNoTopBar |
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