# General settings The general display settings are used to customize the appearance of the report. In the Inforiver toolbar, navigate to the Home ribbon. The **Settings** option is available in the **Actions** section. Click **Settings > Display Settings** to open up the Display side panel.

### **1. Canvas** The canvas section contains options to set the overall appearance of the report. * Theme * Background * Text * Header Text #### **1.1. Theme** The theme option lets you change the theme of the Inforiver Table visual to **Light** or **Dark**. In the example, the Dark theme is chosen.

#### **1.2. Background** You can change the background color of the canvas using this option.

#### **1.3.Text** You can change the color of the text/values in the visual using this option.

#### **1.4. Header text** You can change the color of the header text in the visual using this option.

### **2. Outline** This option allows you to set the outline for the visual. A color picker is enabled when you turn on this toggle. The color picker allows you to select the color of the outline. We have set a blue outline for the grid below.

### **3. Row highlight** This option allows you to highlight the rows in the report. The various row highlight options are: * Row Hover * Row Alternate * Row Alternate Contrast * Row Alternate Flashy * Off #### **3.1. Row hover** Highlights the row upon hovering over it. If you enable this option, the following options are displayed: **Row text color** - Set the text color of the row on hover. **Row background color** - Set the background color of the row on hover. In the image below, the row text color is set to blue, and the row background color to grey on hover.

#### **3.2. Row alternate** Highlights alternate rows. All of the row highlight options are customized with predefined colors. By default, all the tables are configured with the **Row Alternate** highlight option. If you enable this option, the following options are displayed: **Odd Row** - This option allows you to set the color of the odd rows **Even Row** - This option allows you to set the color of the even rows The row alternate highlight is shown in the image below.

#### **3.3. Row alternate contrast** Highlights the odd and even rows with contrasting color shades by default. If you enable this option, the **Odd Row** and **Even Row** options are displayed.

#### **3.4. Row alternate flashy** Highlights the odd and even rows with flashy color shades. If you enable this option, the **Odd Row** and **Even Row** options are displayed.

You can remove the row highlight by selecting the **Off** option from the drop-down. Enable the **Measure Only Highlight** option to remove the highlight from the categories and highlight only the measure values.

Row highlight is applied only to measures

### **4. Gridlines** #### **4.1. Major gridlines** Use this option to set major gridlines for the parent rows in the visual. You can select from the following values: * **Single -** This option will insert a single gridline to the parent rows * **Double -** This option will insert a double gridline to the parent rows * **Off** - This option will turn off the major gridlines If the **Single** or **Double** option is selected for the major gridlines, then a color picker is enabled. Using the color picker, you can customize the color of the single/double major gridlines. In the example below, double major gridlines are inserted, and their colors are set to blue.

If **Off** is selected, the major gridlines will not be displayed. This option is set to 'Off' by default. #### **4.2. Minor gridlines** You can add **Horizontal**, **Header**, and **Vertical** properties for minor gridlines. * **Horizontal** This option lets you set the horizontal gridlines for child rows. You can select from the following options: * **Solid lines** * **Dashed lines** * **Off**

If the **Solid Lines** or **Dashed Lines** option is selected for the horizontal gridlines, then a color picker is enabled. Using the color picker, you can customize the color of the single/double horizontal gridlines. You can also set the number of rows to skip between 2 consecutive lines. In the example, solid horizontal gridlines are inserted, and their colors are set to red. 1 row is skipped between lines.

* **Skip lines** This option allows you to set the minor grid line gap between the rows. The minimum and maximum skip line values are 1 and 10, respectively.

* **Header** This option lets you insert gridlines for the column headers. If this option is enabled, then a color picker option becomes available next to it. Using the color picker option, you can customize the color of the header gridline. The color of the header gridline is the same as that of the horizontal gridlines by default.

If you change the color of the header gridline, the color of the horizontal gridlines also gets changed accordingly.

* **Vertical** This option lets you insert vertical lines between columns. You can select from the following options: * **Solid -** This option will insert solid vertical lines to the right of each column. * **Off** - This option will turn off the vertical lines If the **Solid Lines** option is selected for the vertical lines, a color picker option is enabled. Using the color picker, you can customize the color of the solid vertical lines. In the example, Solid vertical gridlines are inserted, and their colors are set to red.

#### **5. Table padding** This option allows you to insert spacing/padding for the table from the top, bottom, left, and right. Any padding applied will reflect in PDF exports. The minimum and maximum padding values are 0 and 100, respectively.