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Learning Ext JS_Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Learning Ext JS_Fourth Edition Create powerful web applications with the new and improved Ext JS 5 library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394387
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Armando Gonzalez Armando Gonzalez
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Ext JS 5 2. The Core Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Components and Layouts 4. It's All about the Data 5. Buttons and Toolbars 6. Doing It with Forms 7. Give Me the Grid 8. DataViews and Templates 9. The Tree Panel 10. Architecture 11. The Look and Feel 12. Responsive Configurations and Tablet Support 13. From Drawing to Charting 14. Finishing the Application 15. What's Next? Index

Different styles for the same component


In an application, it's common to have different styles of buttons, windows, panels, and so on. For example, in our application, we can define different styles for a panel (according to the type of data we are going to show in there) and different styles for the toolbars inside panels, or for different types of buttons.

In this case, the ui property is essential for this kind of task. Every widget in Ext JS has a ui property, which contains prefixes for the CSS classes. In this way, we can define specific classes for every component. In the following exercise, we are going to create the dashboard for our application and give a custom ui property to each one of the panels inside the dashboard.

Our layout for the dashboard will be like this:

The idea is that we assign each panel a different style, so the Featured panel will be purple, the News panel will be dark blue, and finally Tips will be orange. Also, the title's text and the icons for the panel's...

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