Appearance and Styling

30 Nov 20173 minutes to read

RangeNavigator is enriched with lots of customization options for labels, gridlines and slider to develop high quality graphic rich control.

Label Placement:

Labels in RangeNavigator are placed inside or outside of the control. You can customize both the higher and lower level labels using LabelPlacement property in label setting of RangeNavigator. By default LabelPlacement is “outside” for the both higher and lower level labels.

The higher level labels font Color, FontFamily, FontStyle, FontWeight, Opacity and Size can be customized using HigherLevel property.

The lower level labels font Color, FontFamily, FontStyle, FontWeight, Opacity and Size can be customized using LowerLevel property.

The following screen shot illustrates both the lower and higher level labels that are placed outside the control with LabelPlacement specified as outside.

  • CSHTML
    • <div>
	<ej-range-navigator id="range" load="loadingData">
		<e-chart-series>
			<e-series name="Product A" type="Line" fill="#69D2E7">
			</e-series>
		</e-chart-series>
		<e-selected-range-settings start="2010/5/1" end="2011/10/1"></e-selected-range-settings>
		<e-label-settings>
			<e-higher-level label-placement="Inside"></e-higher-level>
			<e-lower-level label-placement="Inside"></e-lower-level>
		</e-label-settings>
		</ej-range-navigator>
</div>

    The following screenshot illustrates a RangeNavigator with labels inside the control after specifying the LabelPlacement as inside.

    Customize NavigatorStyleSettings

    RangeNavigator is customized using NavigatorStyleSettings properties. You can customize the selected and unselected region color using SelectedRegionColor, UnselectedRegionColor in NavigatorStyleSettings and the thumb of the slider using ThumbColor, ThumbRadius and ThumbStroke in NavigatorStyleSettings. MajorGridLineStyle and MinorGridLineStyle are used to customize the grid line color and visibility.

    Customize Labels

    The visibility of labels are enabled by setting Visible in higher level and Visible in lower level. The labels can be aligned by specifying HorizontalAlignment of higher level style and HorizontalAlignment of lower level style.

    You can customize the Border Color and Width, Fill, GridLineStyle Color, DashArray and Width, Position property of higher level labels in labelSettings.

    You can also customize the Border Color and Width, Fill, GridLineStyle Color, DashArray and Width, Position property for lower level labels of labelSettings.

  • CSHTML
    • <div>
    <ej-range-navigator id="range">
        <e-navigator-style-settings background="transparent" unselected-region-color="white" selected-region-color="#5EABDE" thumb-radius="10" thumb-color="white">
            <e-border color="Black" width="3"></e-border>
            <e-major-grid-line-style visible="true" color="transparent"></e-major-grid-line-style>
            <e-minor-grid-line-style visible="true" color="transparent"></e-minor-grid-line-style>
        </e-navigator-style-settings>
        <e-label-settings>
            <e-higher-level label-placement="Inside" interval-type="Years"></e-higher-level>
        </e-label-settings>
    </ej-range-navigator>
</div>

    Themes

    RangeNavigator theme is a set of pre-defined options that are applied to the control before each RangeNavigator is instantiated. Following predefined themes are available in RangeNavigator.

    1. flat light
    2. flat dark
    3. gradient light
    4. gradient dark
    5. azure
    6. azure dark
    7. lime
    8. lime dark
    9. saffron
    10. saffron dark
    11. gradient azure
    12. gradient azure dark
    13. gradient lime
    14. gradient lime dark
    15. gradient saffron

    gradient saffron dark

  • CSHTML
    • <div>
	<ej-range-navigator id="range" load="loadingData" theme="azuredark">
		<e-chart-series>
			<e-series name="Product A" type="Line">
			</e-series>
		</e-chart-series>
		<e-selected-range-settings start="2010/5/1" end="2011/10/1"></e-selected-range-settings>
		</ej-range-navigator>
</div>