ZK Official Themes

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Currently, ZK provides_ the following different themes: Breeze (built-in theme), Sapphire, Silvertail and Atlantic. Breeze, Sapphire and Silvertail themes uses the same Trendy Design with just different colors while ZK 7's Atlantic theme adopts the new trend in user interface design --Flat Design .

Installation

  1. Download the preferred theme.jar file.
  2. Place theme.jar file under "projectName/WEB-INF/lib" folder.
  3. Register preferred theme by library property in zk.xml file under "projectName/WEB-INF" folder
<!-- zk.xml -->
<library-property>
    <name>org.zkoss.theme.preferred</name>
    <value>sapphire</value> <!-- or silvertail, atlantic -->
</library-property>

Trendy Design Theme

In this design, we use gradient backgrounds, rounded corners and shadow effects for most components. Breeze is a greyish based theme that supports desktop and tablet, sapphire is a blueish based theme that supports desktop only and silvertail is a silverish based theme that also support desktop only.


See below to take a quick view at the look and feel of Breeze, Sapphire and Silvertail, click image to view original size.

Breeze
Sapphire
Silvertail

Flat Design Theme: Atlantic

On contrary to trendy design, gradient background, rounded corner and shadow effect are removed. It is easy to customize and create a new theme based on this design. Atlantic is blueish based theme that support desktop and tablet.

The look and feel of Atlantic theme, click on image to view original size.

Atlantic

Tablet Support

Currently, Breeze and Atlantic themes support tablet device.

Version History

Last Update : 2013/11/14


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Last Update : 2013/11/14

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