slickgrid-react was built with a Font set, mainly Font-Awesome 4, and if you use SASS it was easy enough to replace Font-Awesome to any other Font based set. The question is how do we use SVG instead of a Font? Most frameworks are switching to SVGs instead of Fonts (for smaller size and also efficiency). slickgrid-react now has 2/3 Styling Themes that support SVGs which are Material Design & Salesforce Themes. These 2 new Themes use a subset of Material Design Icons SVGs (even a portion of the Salesforce theme). There are no Font-Awesome 5, I wouldn't mind adding a new Theme for that and if you wish to contribute then please open a new issue.
If you use SASS, you will find out that it's super easy to use either (Font) or (SVG), you simply have to replace the SASS necessary variables, more on that later.
The Material & Salesforce Themes are now using SVGs for the icons used by the grid. Each built-in Themes have CSS and SASS files associated with each theme. To take benefit of this, just import whichever CSS/SASS file associated with the Theme you wish to use.
with CSS
/* style.css */@import'@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/css/slickgrid-theme-bootstrap.css';// or other Themes// @import '@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/styles/css/slickgrid-theme-material.css';// @import '@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/css/slickgrid-theme-salesforce.css';
with SASS
/* change any SASS variables before loading the theme */$slick-primary-color:green;$slick-cell-odd-background-color:lightyellow;$slick-row-mouse-hover-color:lightgreen;/* style.scss */@import'@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/sass/slickgrid-theme-bootstrap.scss';// or other Themes// @import '@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/sass/slickgrid-theme-material.scss';// @import '@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/sass/slickgrid-theme-salesforce.scss';
Using Custom SVGs with SASS
You could use Custom SVGs and create your own Theme and/or a different set of SVG Icons, each of the icons used in Slickgrid-Universal has an associated SASS variables ending with the suffix "icon-svg-path" which allow you to override any of the SVG path. All grid of the icons are generated by following AntFu's icons in pure CSS approach.
with SVG
$slick-primary-color:blue;$slick-icon-group-color: $slick-primary-color;$slick-icon-group-collapsed-svg-path:"M8.59,16.58L13.17,12L8.59,7.41L10,6L16,12L10,18L8.59,16.58Z";$slick-icon-group-expanded-svg-path:"M7.41,8.58L12,13.17L16.59,8.58L18,10L12,16L6,10L7.41,8.58Z";$slick-icon-group-font-size:13px;// then on the last line, import the Theme that you wish to override@import'@slickgrid-universal/common/dist/styles/sass/slickgrid-theme-bootstrap.scss';
Note since the SVG are generated by a SASS function, you can easily override an SVG path in SASS but that is not the case with CSS variable. We still have a way to override an SVG via CSS variable but it requires to override the entire SVG content (not just its path) as can be seen below (also notice that the CSS variable is named without the "-path" suffix and also note that the URL must be encoded)
The project has a few built-in icons (sort, grouping, row detail, row move, row selection) and you can change them via SASS (or CSS with a bit more work). For that reason, all Styling Themes Since this release now has pure CSS SVG icons, I decided to delete any Font-Awesome references (mostly in the Bootstrap Theme) because all the built-in icons are now all SVG icons (sort, grouping, row detail, row move) (you can change them using SASS). However, there are a few plugins that use external icons via CSS classes (mostly all menu plugins like Header Menu, Grid Menu, Content Menu, ...) and for that reason all Styling Themes now include default SVG icons (even the Bootstrap Theme).
What if you want to use your own font/SVG library? This can be answered in 2 parts:
the built-in icons can only be changed via SASS (or CSS with extra work), see above on how to change them.
for all other area using icons via CSS classes (e.g. all menu plugins), you can use the "lite" Themes and then make sure to update all the menu plugins with the correct CSS classes, for example the global grid options of the Grid Menu is configured with the following CSS classes and you'll want to remap them with the correct CSS classes to fit your need:
and here's the file size difference with the "lite" version
How to change SVG color?
The following works for both CSS and SASS
The new version 5.x of this project is now creating SVG icons as pure CSS, this mean that you can colorize the icons the same way that you would change a text color. We also provide a few different color CSS classes which start with the prefixes $color- or $text-color- (e.g. $color-primary).
SVG Colors - CSS Classes
Since SVG can now be colorize via the color the same as any other text, there isn't much to do. However a small subset of default colors is provided that can be used with the SVG icons or any text (basically took the same colors used by Bootstrap here). We also added a light and dark shades for of each colors (except color-light, color-dark since there's no need), they both use a 6% lighter/darker shades (you can override the shade with $color-lighten-percentage and the same for darken). These colors can be used with the color-X (for example color-primary), also note that the primary color will follow your $slick-primary-color that you might have already overriden (it could also be different in each styling theme, shown below is the Salesforce theme colors). If you find that the colors are not exactly the colors you're looking for, we've also took some colors taken from UiKit and tagged them as color-alt-X.
NOTE 1: The colors.scss is only included in the Material and Salesforce Themes since those are the only 2 themes currently using SVGs. If you wish to use these colors then simply add the necessary css/scss file.