Color

Question

User-1097933300 posted

Hey all,

Does anyone know how to make a price of text in a mobile form have a background color?

Thanks!

Answer 1

User1634317999 posted
You have to set the BackColor attribute.

Answer 2

User731069546 posted

Even though BackColor attribute is present, it is not used when the mobile control is rendered. That's why you don't see the back ground color in your case.

Answer 3

User1634317999 posted

The BackColor is rendered for the Mobile Form Control, i. e. the body background color, in all all markup languages. For other controls like Label, Link or TextView it is only rendered in XHTML. And I don't know why at the moment.  If you use a device for that the Mobile Controls output XHTML-MP you will see the BackColor. Therefore it depends on the configured device profiles if BackColor is rendered.

Answer 4

User1634317999 posted

I found the answer why the BackColor attribute is not rendered for the peferredRenderingType Html32, e. g. Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer Mobile: HTML 3.2 does not allow an implementation of a background color, except the bgcolor attribute of the body tag.

This post explains a workaround:

<mobile:Panel ID="Panel1" Runat="server">
            <mobile:DeviceSpecific ID="DeviceSpecific1" Runat="server">
                <Choice Filter="isHTML32" Xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/mobile/html32template">
                    <ContentTemplate>
                        <span style="background: #FF8000;"><mobile:Label ID="Label1" Runat="server">Test-Label BackColor HTML32</mobile:Label></span>
                    </ContentTemplate>
                </Choice>
                <Choice Xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/mobile/html32template">
                    <ContentTemplate>
                        <mobile:Label ID="Label2" Runat="server" BackColor="#FF8000">Test-Label BackColor XHTML-MP</mobile:Label>
                    </ContentTemplate>
                </Choice>
            </mobile:DeviceSpecific>
        </mobile:Panel>

 

The other workaround is to default the whole mobile application to XHTML:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<browserCaps>
      preferredRenderingMime = "text/html"
      preferredRenderingType = "xhtml-mp"
</browserCaps>
</system.web>
</configuration>

 

 

 

Answer 5

User1777321731 posted

Hi,

This is Amit Shah. I am very new to .Net Mobile development. I am using .Net 2005 for developing mobile application. My problem is preety similar to this thread. Even i am not able to get the background color or even i can say not able to apply external or internal css stylesheet in my any mobile form. I have applied the last solution in my app but then i cam see background color on Internet Explorer 6 but not on the emulators or mobile phones.

 Please help me out on this because i am out of solutions now [:'(]

 

Thanks in Advance,

Amit Shah

Answer 6

User1900435586 posted

hi  toamitshah

                         

</system.web>

<browserCaps>

preferredRenderingMime = "text/html"

preferredRenderingType = "xhtml-mp"

</browserCaps>

<mobileControls allowCustomAttributes="true" />

</system.web>

               and use the basic color like Red, blue and green as background color.