sass

Overview

The "sass" directory contains Sass files for generating the Preference Framework stylesheets. These stylesheets are used to style the Preference Editors as well provide the means for applying enactor styles to a website. The Sass files may be used directly within an integrators own build tools, or the pre-built CSS equivalents can be used directly on a web page.

How to prevent compiling utility Sass files

Some Sass files may only contain mixins or functions for other Sass files to import. Those files should not be compiled into CSS. To prevent compiling them, ensure that their filename begins with an underscore, e.g. _fonts.scss. For more information about this convention see Sass's documentation on partials.

Enactor Stylesheets

Enactors modify a website to meet the preferences specified in a Preferences Editor. However, not all enactors modify the styling of a website. For those that do, stylesheets are provided to facilitate this application. Each stlying related enactor will provide its own stylesheet(s), so that an integrator can import only the styles for the enactors they are using in their particular configuration. Althernatively the Enactors stylesheets can be used to quickly access all of the available styling enactors styles.

Base Styleheets

The styling related enactors use CSS custom properties as hooks for applying the styling. Some enactors such as Text Size, set their CSS custom properties via JavaScript, others supply them via classes in their related *_base stylesheet. For example the Enhance Inputs preference uses the EnhanceInputs_base stylesheet. An integrator can hook into the enactor's CSS custom properties to implement their own styles, allowing the site to automatically adapt along with the preference changes.

Drop-in Style Application

To allow for quicker initial integration with the Preferences Framework/UI Options, an integrator may choose to use the drop-in styles sheets, which will additionally provide a set of pre-designed styles to apply the prefernce. For example the Enhance Inputs preference provides the EnhanceInputs stylesheet. Enactors.css will provide the complete set of enactors styles with their application; similar to how previous versions of Infusion supported styling enactors.

NOTE: The drop-in styles are necessarily heavy handed, and include !important to attempt to override default styles. If these need to be overridden, it may be better to use the *_base stylesheets and build up custom styles for the site.

CSS Custom Properties

Contrast

The below CSS custom properties are set when one of the contrast classes (e.g. .fl-theme-bw) is applied. However, not every class sets all of the properties.

• --fl-fgColor: foreground colour, often text colour
• --fl-bgColor: background colour
• --fl-linkColor: text colour for links
• --fl-disabledColor: text colour for disabled inputs
• --fl-selectedFgColor: colour for selected text
• --fl-selectedBgColor: selection background colour
• --fl-buttonFgColor: text colour for buttons
• --fl-buttonBgColor: background colour for buttons

Enhance Inputs

The CSS Custom properties added by the .fl-input-enhanced class:

• --fl-enhance-font-size-factor: (default is 1.25) the factor of the font-size increase, can be used with calc.
• --fl-enhance-font-size: (default is 125%) the font-size value
• --fl-enhance-font-weight: (default is bold) font-weight value
• --fl-enhance-text-decoration: (default is underline) the text-decoration value. Used to enhance links.

Font

Makes use of the utils/_fonts.scss for mixin functions; which may be useful if defining custom fonts for use with the Preferences Framework.

The following custom property is set when one of the font classess (e.g. fl-font-arial) is applied.

• --fl-font-family: the font family to apply

Letter Space

Set programmatically with JavaScript on the enactors container element, usually the body.

• --fl-letterSpace-factor: the factor of the letter space change, can be used with calc.
• --fl-letterSpace: the letter-spacing value

Line Space

Set programmatically with JavaScript on the enactors container element, usually the body.

• --fl-lineSpace-factor: the factor of the line height change, can be used with calc.
• --fl-lineSpace: the line-height value

Text Size

Set programmatically with JavaScript on the enactors container element, usually the body.

• --fl-textSize-factor: the factor of the font size change, can be used with calc.
• --fl-textSize: the font-size value

Word Space

Set programmatically with JavaScript on the enactors container element, usually the body.

• --fl-wordSpace-factor: the factor of the word-spacing change, can be used with calc.
• --fl-wordSpace: the word-spacing value