idea Add missing color properties (e.g., Background) to all widgets in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Add missing color properties (e.g., Background) to all widgets

abureaux — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:54:11 GMT

Not all widgets have the option to recolour each of their elements.

For example, the "Query" widget is missing the "Background" property:

For comparison, here is the "Filter" widget, which does have the "background" property:

Re: Add missing color properties (e.g., Background) to all widgets

TianWen — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:05:22 GMT

Thank you for your post. ExB widgets offer color settings tailored to specific use cases. We’d be happy to explore adding color settings to more widgets. Could you please share your use case and specify which widgets and settings you’d like to see enhanced?

Re: Add missing color properties (e.g., Background) to all widgets

abureaux — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:24:40 GMT

The issue is contrast. Experience Builder likes to automatically select colors for backgrounds and title text. Sometimes this works well, other times you end up with a black background on almost-black text, which is near unreadable.

Users should be given control over where the widget takes color data from so that we can avoid such scenarios.

Here is an example of a very poor color contrast choice made by the Table widget. Since I can't specify all the colors, I am stuck with this.

An example of part of the title block (cutting out client name) for that same Web App where I can specify all the colors: