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  • 1.  Design help needed for main navigation

    Posted 01-09-2020 12:47
    Has anyone else struggled with the main navigation? I am trying to figure out why it is only showing a blue box around the tab that I click on. I would like to change the emphasis from a light blue box to maybe underline or something like that. Thoughts?  


    #Flex-Creating/ManagingEvents

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    Alex Yauch
    Event Specialist
    MatrixCare, Inc.
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  • 2.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Community MVP
    Posted 01-09-2020 16:30
    Hello Alex,

    I'm not a fan of the box either and since we can't use custom CSS with FLEX there isn't anyway to fix it. It is the :focus state for the links and looks like the code is coming right from the browser itself. I mostly use Chrome, but I did check both Microsoft Edge and Firefox and was not getting the box. 

    If we did have access to custom CSS it could be coded not to show a box but an underline. 


    Hopefully Cvent can fix the issue. 
    P.S. I like the orange registration button.

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    James Rose | Senior Web Developer and Content Management
    Digital Infrastructure, Implementation, Strategy, and Support
    Office of University Development | University of Michigan
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  • 3.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Posted 01-09-2020 16:48
    Hi James,

    I have a background in html so it drives me crazy that I cant do any design on the back end.  Thanks for looking into that and I'm glad i'm not the only one that finds that annoying. I was just hoping I would be able to do it myself. 

    That orange is actually part of our company logo. I can't take credit for that one.

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    Alex Yauch
    Event Specialist
    MatrixCare, Inc.
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  • 4.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Community MVP
    Posted 01-09-2020 21:30
    CSS is coming, but it can't be soon enough.

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    Steven Schlossman
    Jack of all trades. Master of none.
    BMW Car Club of America
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  • 5.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Community MVP
    Posted 01-10-2020 15:42
    Steven & Alex,



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    James Rose | Senior Web Developer and Content Management
    Digital Infrastructure, Implementation, Strategy, and Support
    Office of University Development | University of Michigan
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  • 6.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Community MVP
    Posted 01-10-2020 22:27
    No really. When flex was first announced, no CSS. Last cventconnect, we were told that it was coming.

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    Steven Schlossman
    Jack of all trades. Master of none.
    BMW Car Club of America
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  • 7.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Community MVP
    Posted 01-17-2020 12:53
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    You can add CSS now, you just have to be tricksy about it.

    You can go to Admin > Account > Custom Data Fields and create your stylesheet. Then, inside your Flex Default Header/Footer, add a text widget and click the tag icon. Select "Account Custom Tag" and choose your new tag from the dropdown. Save, publish, and the stylesheet will apply.

    As a quick example, I created the following style to change the color of the header/footer (just for testing - I know you can do this directly in the design editor).

    <style type="text/css"> .Classes__sectionContainer___3_LOP { background-color: red !important; } </style>

    The before:


    The after:

    This is also what we use to add Google fonts.


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    Katie McIntyre
    Senior Manager, Event Registration
    Opus Agency
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  • 8.  RE: Design help needed for main navigation

    Community MVP
    Posted 01-17-2020 13:18
    Katie,

    That belongs in "Favorite Hacks" too. 


    Thanks for sharing with the group.


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    James Rose | Senior Web Developer and Content Management
    Digital Infrastructure, Implementation, Strategy, and Support
    Office of University Development | University of Michigan
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