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The Official Guide to Mermaid.js

You're reading from   The Official Guide to Mermaid.js Create complex diagrams and beautiful flowcharts easily using text and code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078023
Length 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Knut Sveidqvist Knut Sveidqvist
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Ashish Jain Ashish Jain
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Mermaid
2. Chapter 1: The Art of Documentation with Mermaid FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Use Mermaid 4. Chapter 3: Mermaid Versions and Using the Live Editor 5. Chapter 4: Modifying Configurations with or without Directives 6. Chapter 5: Changing Themes and Making Mermaid Look Good 7. Section 2: The Most Popular Diagrams
8. Chapter 6: Using Flowcharts 9. Chapter 7: Creating Sequence Diagrams 10. Chapter 8: Rendering Class Diagrams 11. Chapter 9: Illustrating Data with Pie Charts and Understanding Requirement Diagrams 12. Section 3: Powerful Diagrams for the Advanced User
13. Chapter 10: Demonstrating Connections Using Entity Relationship Diagrams 14. Chapter 11: Representing System Behavior with State Diagrams 15. Chapter 12: Visualizing Your Project Schedule with Gantt Chart 16. Chapter 13: Presenting User Behavior with User Journey Diagrams 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix :Configuration Options

Adjusting the theme of sequence diagrams

It might be the case that there is something we want to adjust in the theme of sequence diagrams without changing how other diagrams look. If this is the case, we should avoid modifying the main color variables such as primaryColor, and so on. The variables discussed next have a narrower scope than the main variables and have default values derived from the main color variables. If we modify them, they will override the derived ones and will only change the colors for sequence diagrams. If you want to know more about general theming concepts, these are explained in depth in Chapter 5, Changing Themes and Making Mermaid Look Good.

In the following subsections, we will look at different ways you can change the theme for sequence diagrams. We will look at each variable and show how it affects the output of the diagrams.

actorBkg

This color variable sets the background color of boxes used for actors, as illustrated in the following code...

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