topic Re: Splunk 6.2.5: How to change the background color of a simple xml dashboard? in Dashboards & Visualizations

Splunk 6.2.5: How to change the background color of a simple xml dashboard?

htkwan — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:51:10 GMT

Hello All,

I've tried to change the background color of the dashboard. See below. I've copied the dark.css to the my application, $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myApp/appserver/static/; and include the line, <dashboard stylesheet="dark.css"> in my dashboard.

1.First Variation
<dashboard stylesheet="dark.css">
...

2.Second Variation
<dashboard stylesheet="dark.css">
...
</dashboard>

3.Third Variation
<dashboard stylesheet="dark.css">
</dashboard>
...

They fail to work. Pls. advise. Thanks.

Re: Splunk 6.2.5: How to change the background color of a simple xml dashboard?

jensonthottian — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:29:20 GMT

Can you check if your CSS is operational or not, by converting your dashboard into HTML and directly adding your CSS in the HTML itself. This is a quick check to see if the CSS is good or not. Everything else seems fine to me.

Re: Splunk 6.2.5: How to change the background color of a simple xml dashboard?

htkwan — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:05:17 GMT

Hello,
Work okay, now. Thanks.

Re: Splunk 6.2.5: How to change the background color of a simple xml dashboard?

jensonthottian — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:26:03 GMT

Good to know that 🙂

Re: Splunk 6.2.5: How to change the background color of a simple xml dashboard?

alacercogitatus — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:51:54 GMT

When ever you add an external stylesheet, you must restart splunkweb. You can do this by running:

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk restart splunkweb

This will pick up the CSS for the dashboard. Also, make sure you only have either dashboard or form as the opening tag. Don't have both.