Dialog: Customize HTML Output

This dialog allows you to change the appearance of the HTML log files, by modifying the HTML template code that Docklight uses when generating the HTML log file data.

You need some basic understanding of HTML documents and CSS style attributes. We recommend http://www.htmldog.com (English) or http://www.selfhtml.org (German and French) for a quick overview on these topics.

The HTML document header. Here you can change the font applied to the log file data, using the following CSS style attributes:

CSS Style Attribute

Description and Example

font-family

Defines one or several fonts (or: font categories) that the HTML browser should use to print a text. If the browser does not support the first font, it will try the second one, a.s.o. The last font usually defines a generic font category that every browser supports. Examples:

font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace

font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif

font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif

font-size

Specifies the font size. Both, absolute and relative sizes are possible. Examples for absolute font sizes:

font-size:12pt

font-size:xx-small

font-size:x-small

font-size:small

font-size:medium

font-size:large

font-size:x-large

font-size:xx-large

Examples for relative font sizes (relative to the parent HTML element)

font-size:smaller

font-size:larger

font-size:90%

NOTE: Use the semicolon (";") as a separator between two different CSS style attributes, e.g.

NOTE: Docklight will insert additional <u> (underline), <i> (italic) and <b> (bold) HTML tags, if such formatting options are activated in the Display Settings. You do not have to use the font-style or font-weight attribute to create these effects.

For every new piece of log file information (channel 1 data, channel 2 data, or a comment text), a new <span> tag with different text color is added to the HTML log file.

The template code for the header, footer and data parts contains Docklight-specific wildcards which must not be deleted:

Wildcard	Description
%BACKCOLOR%	The background color, as selected in the Display Settings
%HEADERMSG%	Header text at the start of the log file
%FOOTERMSG%	Footer text at the end of the log file
%DATA%	a chunk of the log file data: channel 1 data, channel 2 data, or a comment text
%TEXTCOLOR%	The text color to apply for %DATA%, as selected in the Display Settings

When generating a log file, Docklight replaces the wildcards with the current display settings and the actual communication data.