Styling
Visual styling lives on Card Appearance. CSS overrides live on Advanced.
Card Appearance
- Theme Preset: Default or Dark surface colors.
- Card Style: Default, Outlined, Flat, or Compact presets with distinct borders and shadows.
- UI Corners: Rounded or Squared corners for Read more, Load more, category tabs, view toggle, search fields, and filter controls.
- Accent Color, Card Background Color, Card Border Color, Card Border Width
- Card Radius: Corner rounding for cards (0–48 px).
- Card Body Padding: Inner padding around card text (0–48 px). Leave at 0 to use the preset default.
- Card Shadow: None, Soft, Medium, or Strong.
- Hover Shadow: None, Soft, Medium, Strong, Boost, or Same as resting shadow.
- Hover Lift: Vertical lift on card hover (0–16 px). Set to 0 with Hover Shadow None and Image Hover None for a static card.
- Equal Card Height: Stretches cards in each row to the same height.
- Button Style: Filled, Outline, or Text for Read more and Load more.
- Image Ratio: 16:10, 4:3, 1:1, or 3:4.
- Image Fit: Cover fills the frame and may crop. Contain keeps the full image visible, which suits logos and wide banners.
- Title Overlay on Image, Image Hover Effect (Zoom, Brighten, Grayscale, or None), Enable Image Lightbox
Typography
- Title Font Size, Title Font Weight, and Title Line Clamp
- Meta Font Size for dates, categories, and card meta
Filter Toolbar
- Search uses an in-field icon, sort uses a custom chevron, and Reset is a compact control aligned with the fields.
- While module CSS is enabled, toolbar input styles are scoped to the module wrapper and resist common template overrides (for example Helix Ultimate search padding).
Advanced CSS
- Disable Module CSS: Turns off the bundled stylesheet. Only then can template styles fully restyle the filter toolbar.
- Module Class Suffix: Adds a custom class to the module wrapper.
- Custom CSS: Module-specific CSS with a
{module}placeholder for the wrapper ID.
Example: {module} .scf-card { border-width: 2px; }