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Liferay Portal 6.x Enterprise Intranets (Update)

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Liferay Portal 6.x Enterprise Intranets (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay Portal 6.2 Enterprise Intranets
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Web Content Management
Index

Customizing portlets


As a Palm Tree administrator of the enterprise Palm Tree Publications, you may be needed to customize the portlet.

Liferay provides us with a feature to customize the portlet through options/controls like Look and Feel, Configuration, Export/Import, Maximize, Minimize, and Remove.

  • Look and Feel: This is used to change the portlet display by using the CSS and JavaScript. It even allows enabling and disabling the portlet border among many other settings.

    Figure 2.17: The popup interface for portal look and feel (CSS) setting

    As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are many links for settings like Portlet Configuration, Text Styles, Background Styles, Border Styles, Margin and Padding, and Advance Styling:

    • Portlet Configuration: In this, you can change the portlet title, define a custom title, link portlet URLs to different internal pages, and you can show the border of the portlet

    • Text Styles: This allows you to change the text style of the portlet

    • Background Styles...