Flex Examples

The following example shows how you can style a HSlider (or VSlider) control in Flex using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Full code after the jump.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/12/styling-the-hslider-control-using-css/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Style>
        @font-face{
            src: url("./fonts/arial.ttf");
            fontFamily: "ArialEmbedded";
        }

        .MyLabel {
            fontFamily: ArialEmbedded;
            fontSize: 15;
            fontWeight: normal;
        }

        .MyDataTip {
            backgroundAlpha: 1.0;
            backgroundColor: haloBlue;
            color: white;
            cornerRadius: 10;
            fontWeight: bold;
            letterSpacing: 1;
        }

        .MySlider {
            dataTipOffset: 0;
            dataTipPrecision: 0;
            dataTipPlacement: left;
            dataTipStyleName: MyDataTip;
            showTrackHighlight: true;
            labelStyleName: MyLabel;
        }
    </mx:Style>

    <mx:Array id="labelArr">
        <mx:Number>-10</mx:Number>
        <mx:Number>0</mx:Number>
        <mx:Number>10</mx:Number>
        <mx:Number>20</mx:Number>
    </mx:Array>

    <mx:HSlider id="slider"
            minimum="-10"
            maximum="20"
            labels="{labelArr}"
            snapInterval="1"
            tickInterval="10"
            styleName="MySlider" />

</mx:Application>

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