Change Themes Dynamically In Grid

SibeeshVenu — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:40:51 +0000

In this post we will see how we can Change Themes Dynamically In Grid . I recently came across a situation to change the grid’s theme dynamically, when ever user select any theme. So I have done this requirement by using some in-built functionalities of jQWidget JQX grid. Here I am going to share you that. I hope you will like it.

To load a grid from a JSON, you can follows the steps as discussed in this article: Load jQWidget JQX Grid From JSON

Background

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Download the Source Code

Please download the source code from here: Change Themes Dynamically

Using the code

I hope you have implemented your grid as shown in that article. Now I guess your page will be looking like this.

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Change Themes Dynamically In Grid – Sibeesh Passion

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid – Sibeesh Passion

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Now let us make sure that grid is working fine. Please run your project.

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid

Cool, so grid is loaded. Now need to add a select control in which we are going to load theme names so that user can select the theme and apply. Is that fine?

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The next thing is we need to add the CSS links to the page, here I am going to add some of the CSS references as follows.

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Have you noticed that we are calling the function applyNewCSS in the on change event of the select control. So next thins we will add that function.

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function applyNewCSS() {
var css = $.trim($("#selectOptions").val());
if (css == ‘metro’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘metro’ });
}
else if (css == ‘metrodark’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘metrodark’ });
}
else if (css == ‘office’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘office’ });
} else if (css == ‘orange’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘orange’ });
} else if (css == ‘energyblue’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘energyblue’ });
} else if (css == ‘darkblue’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘darkblue’ });
} else if (css == ‘black’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘black’ });
} else if (css == ‘shinyblack’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘shinyblack’ });
} else if (css == ‘lightness’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘lightness’ });
} else if (css == ‘ui-le-frog’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘ui-le-frog’ });
} else if (css == ‘ui-darkness’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘ui-darkness’ });
} else if (css == ‘ui-sunny’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘ui-sunny’ });
}
else if (css == ‘android’) {
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid({ theme: ‘android’ });
}
}
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So we can add the theme to the grid as $(“#jqxgrid”).jqxGrid({ theme: ‘theme name’ });

Here we are applying the theme to the grid according to the user selection. Oops, we forgot one thing. If you apply CSS style sheet directly, the styles won’t get applied in the page contents. For that we need to disable the remaining style sheets and enable the selected one alone.

Following code will do that magic.

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var i, link_tag;
for (i = 0, link_tag = document.getElementsByTagName("link") ; i < link_tag.length; i++) {
if ((link_tag[i].rel.indexOf("stylesheet") != -1) && link_tag[i].title) {
link_tag[i].disabled = true;
if (link_tag[i].title == css) {
link_tag[i].disabled = false;
}
}
set_cookie(‘style’, css, 30);
}
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We are finding all of the link reference and find out whose rel property has the word ‘stylesheet’. Now it is time to see how it woks.

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid

You can see that the grid themes are changing according to the user selection of theme.That’s all we have done it.

Complete Code

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Change Themes Dynamically In Grid – Sibeesh Passion

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid – Sibeesh Passion

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Conclusion

Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Have you ever wanted to do this requirement? Did you try jQWidget yet? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.

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Sibeesh Venu

Disable The Stylesheets – Sibeesh Passion

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid – Sibeesh Passion

Change Themes Dynamically In Grid – Sibeesh Passion