Appearance and Styling

25 Mar 20216 minutes to read

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

Customize labels

The labels are found along the range, displaying the value of the data it correspond, both on (higher level label) and below (lower level label) the RangeNavigator. RangeNavigator labels are further customized using higher level label Style property of Font and lower level label Style property of Font property in LabelSettings.

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.

HTML

<ej:RangeNavigator ID="RangeNavigator1" runat="server" onClientSideRangeChanged="onchartloaded">

     <LabelSettings>

                <HigherLevel>

                    <Style Font-Color="#ff0000" Font-Opacity="1" Font-FontSize="12px" Font-Style="Normal" Font-Weight="Regular">                        

                    </Style>

                </HigherLevel>

                <LowerLevel>

                    <Style Font-Color="#ff0000" Font-Opacity="1" Font-FontSize="12px" Font-Style="Normal" Font-Weight="Regular"></Style>

                </LowerLevel>

     </LabelSettings>

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</ej:RangeNavigator>

Customize labels

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 LabelSettings of RangeNavigator. By default LabelPlacement is “outside” for the both higher and lower level labels.

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

HTML

<ej:RangeNavigator ID="RangeNavigator1" runat="server" onClientSideRangeChanged="onchartloaded">

     <LabelSettings>

               <HigherLevel LabelPlacement="inside">                   

                </HigherLevel>

                <LowerLevel LabelPlacement="inside">                   

                </LowerLevel>

     </LabelSettings>

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</ej:RangeNavigator>

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

RangeNavigator with labels inside the control

Customize RangeNavigator

Customize NavigatorStyleSettings

RangeNavigator is customized using NavigatorStyleSettings properties. You can customize the selected and unselected region color using SelectedRegionColor and UnselectedRegionColor, SelectedRegionOpacity and UnselectedRegionOpacity in NavigatorStyleSettings and the thumb of the slider using ThumbColor, ThumbRadius and ThumbStroke in NavigatorStyleSettings. MajorGridLineStyle and MinorGridLineStyle are used to customize the major grid line Color, Visible property and minor gridline Color and Visible. You can customize the Background, Opacity and Border Color, DashArray and Width of navigatorStyleSettings.

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.

HTML

<ej:RangeNavigator ID="RangeNavigator1" runat="server" onClientSideRangeChanged="onchartloaded">

    <LabelSettings>

        <HigherLevel>

            <Style HorizontalAlignment="Left" Font-Color="#ff0000" Font-Opacity="1" Font-FontSize="13px" Font-Style="Normal" Font-Weight="Regular">
            </Style>

        </HigherLevel>

        <LowerLevel>

            <Style HorizontalAlignment="Left" Font-Color="#ff0000" Font-Opacity="1" Font-FontSize="12px" Font-Style="Normal" Font-Weight="Regular"></Style>

        </LowerLevel>

    </LabelSettings>

    <NavigatorStyleSettings UnselectedRegionColor="white" SelectedRegionColor="#5EABDE" ThumbRadius="10" ThumbColor="white" Background="transparent">

        <Border Color="black" Width="3"></Border>

        <MajorGridLineStyle Color="transparent" Visible="true"></MajorGridLineStyle>

        <MinorGridLineStyle Color="transparent" Visible="true"></MinorGridLineStyle>

    </NavigatorStyleSettings>

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</ej:RangeNavigator>

Customize RangeNavigator

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 ASP.NET RangeNavigator.

1. flatlight
2. flatdark
3. gradientlight
4. gradientdark
5. azure
6. azuredark
7. lime
8. limedark
9. saffron
10. saffrondark
11. gradientazure
12. gradientazuredark
13. gradientlime
14. gradientlimedark
15. gradientsaffron
16. gradientsaffrondark

HTML

<ej:RangeNavigator ID="RangeNavigator1" runat="server" Theme="azuredark">

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</ej:RangeNavigator>

Themes