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Item Skin Editor

Customize the look of your Essential Grid Items with the Item Skin Editor.

1. Introduction

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  • Quick Tip:
    Always duplicate a Skin before editing to preserve copies of the original templates.
From the plugin's Item Skin Editor, make a duplicate of your grid's current skin.
duplicate-skin
Next, click over to the last page of skins, and click the "Edit Skin" button for the skin titled "Item Skin 1".
edit-duplicated-item-skin
Next, rename the duplicated skin and save.
rename-item-skin
And finally, assign the duplicated skin to your Grid.

From your grid’s “Skins” tab:

assign-new-skin

Select the newly duplicated skin:

select-new-skin

2. Add / Remove Layers

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From the plugin's main admin page, choose "Edit Skin".
edit-item-skin
To delete an element, select its Layer from the Item Layout section located on the right side, and then click "Remove" from the Layer Settings on the left.
delete-skin-element
To add a new element, find an "Available Layer" from the bottom list, and drag it into the "Item Layout".
add-skin-layer
And finally, choose the item's Source:
item-skin-layer-source

3. Adjust Text, Icon & Button Styles

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From the plugin's main admin page, choose "Edit Skin".
edit-item-skin
Next, select the Layer you'd like to edit, and adjust its styling.
adjust-layer-styles

Font-style adjustments:

font-style-adjustments

Background Color adjustment:

background-color-adjustments

Background Padding adjustment:

background-padding-adjustments

Border-Radius Adjustments:

border-border-radius
  • Quick Tip #1:
    Activate and apply styles to the "Hover" tab to add/adjust hover styles for the element.
hover-styles
  • Quick Tip #2:
    Save your customized element as a new "Template" that can then be used for other skins.
save-as-template
save-template-style
saved-termplate-style

4. Adjust Content Positioning

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From the plugin's main admin page, choose "Edit Skin".
edit-item-skin
Next, select the Layer you'd like to edit, and adjust the options from the "Spacing" tab.
layer-position

Adjust Alignment:

adjust-layer-alignment

Drag and Drop the Layers throughout the available Drop-Zones:

move-element-drop-zone

Change the display property of the Layer from “inline-block” to “block” to spread the element across the entire width of the Grid Item.

adjust-display-property

And then apply some margins to the Layer:

layer-position-margins

5. Show Layers by default without a mouse-hover

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From the plugin's main admin page, choose "Edit Skin".
edit-item-skin
Next, from "Layout Composition -> Animation", set "Group Animation" to "None":
group-animation-none
Next, select the Layer you would like to always show by default, set its "Transition" to "None", and then also choose "Always Visible" from the second drop-down, as shown in the following screenshot.
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