{"id":70161,"date":"2015-11-24T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:07:17","slug":"modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css","title":{"rendered":"Modify configurable app using custom css"},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37511],"tags":[26331,29081,29091,24421],"industry":[],"product":[36821,36551],"class_list":["post-70161","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-basic-viewer","tag-css","tag-html","tag-templates","product-configurable-apps","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"The configuration panel for the Basic Viewer template provides options to customize the appearance of the application to fit your needs. ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The configuration panel for the Basic Viewer template provides options to customize the appearance of the application to fit your needs. We covered how to configure this app a few months ago in this <a title=\"Configuring the Basic Viewer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2015\/05\/11\/configuring-the-basic-viewer-template\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally we get requests asking how to make additional customizations like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the text color for \u00a0the title.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the font size for text<\/li>\n<li>Modify the font color for the search widget placeholder text<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->So we added a new option to the configuration panel for this template that allows you to provide custom css that will be applied to the app. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a video that demonstrates how to use this new option by updating the appearance of the title.<\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_71521\"  width=\"480\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2V9NMDzB2g?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=3&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>More advanced customizations can be done using this option such as moving the location of the panels, making the title\/tool area cover the full width of the app and much more. \u00a0Explore the gallery of configured web apps to see more examples of apps customized using the <em>Custom css<\/em>\u00a0option.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe src=&#8221;https:\/\/webapps.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/webmap\/embedGallery.html?displayapps=true&amp;displayinline=true&amp;group=80cfcdafcf5f4e82890780607ee224df&#8221; width=&#8221;750&#8243; height=&#8221;238&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about CSS the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Learn\/CSS\" target=\"_blank\">Learning the Web &#8211; CSS<\/a> tutorial available on MDN is a great place to get started. \u00a0We&#8217;d love to see what you created using <em>Custom css<\/em> so feel free to share your custom apps in the comments.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4801,"user_firstname":"Kelly","user_lastname":"Hutchins","nickname":"Kelly","user_nicename":"kelly","display_name":"Kelly Hutchins","user_email":"khutchins@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:25","user_description":"Software developer on the instant apps team building apps that help you share your Online content. Outside of work I enjoy spending time trail running with my dogs.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3695-213x200.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Modify configurable app using custom css<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Modify configurable app using custom css\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArcGIS Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-03-26T21:07:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ESRI\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kelly Hutchins\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6a3c399b819d64e44070cdbedbf2cc9b\"},\"headline\":\"Modify configurable app using custom css\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-24T04:50:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-26T21:07:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\"},\"wordCount\":6,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Basic Viewer\",\"CSS\",\"HTML\",\"templates\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Sharing and Collaboration\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\",\"name\":\"Modify configurable app using custom css\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-24T04:50:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-26T21:07:17+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Modify configurable app using custom css\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/\",\"name\":\"ArcGIS Blog\",\"description\":\"Get insider info from Esri product teams\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Esri\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Esri\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESRI\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/5311\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6a3c399b819d64e44070cdbedbf2cc9b\",\"name\":\"Kelly Hutchins\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3695-213x200.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3695-213x200.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Kelly Hutchins\"},\"description\":\"Software developer on the instant apps team building apps that help you share your Online content. Outside of work I enjoy spending time trail running with my dogs.\",\"url\":\"\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Modify configurable app using custom css","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Modify configurable app using custom css","og_url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css","og_site_name":"ArcGIS Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/","article_modified_time":"2018-03-26T21:07:17+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@ESRI","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css"},"author":{"name":"Kelly Hutchins","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6a3c399b819d64e44070cdbedbf2cc9b"},"headline":"Modify configurable app using custom css","datePublished":"2015-11-24T04:50:45+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-26T21:07:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css"},"wordCount":6,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["Basic Viewer","CSS","HTML","templates"],"articleSection":["Sharing and Collaboration"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css","name":"Modify configurable app using custom css","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-11-24T04:50:45+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-26T21:07:17+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/modify-configurable-app-using-custom-css#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Modify configurable app using custom css"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/","name":"ArcGIS Blog","description":"Get insider info from Esri product teams","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization","name":"Esri","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"Esri"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/","https:\/\/x.com\/ESRI","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/5311\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6a3c399b819d64e44070cdbedbf2cc9b","name":"Kelly Hutchins","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3695-213x200.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3695-213x200.jpg","caption":"Kelly Hutchins"},"description":"Software developer on the instant apps team building apps that help you share your Online content. Outside of work I enjoy spending time trail running with my dogs.","url":""}]}},"text_date":"November 24, 2015","author_name":"Kelly Hutchins","author_page":false,"custom_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Newsroom-Keyart-Wide-1920-x-1080.jpg","primary_product":"ArcGIS Configurable Apps","tag_data":[{"term_id":26331,"name":"Basic Viewer","slug":"basic-viewer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":26331,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":29081,"name":"CSS","slug":"css","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29081,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":29091,"name":"HTML","slug":"html","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29091,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":24421,"name":"templates","slug":"templates","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24421,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":61,"filter":"raw"}],"category_data":[{"term_id":37511,"name":"Sharing and Collaboration","slug":"sharing-collaboration","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37511,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":438,"filter":"raw"}],"product_data":[{"term_id":36821,"name":"ArcGIS Configurable Apps","slug":"configurable-apps","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36821,"taxonomy":"product","description":"","parent":36591,"count":91,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":36551,"name":"ArcGIS Online","slug":"arcgis-online","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36551,"taxonomy":"product","description":"","parent":0,"count":2472,"filter":"raw"}],"primary_product_link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?s=#&products=configurable-apps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/70161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/70161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70161"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=70161"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=70161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}