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Creating countdowns with the OnPage Composer
Your task/initial situation
Creating a countdown
- Log in to the back end of JTL-Shop and switch to the front end of JTL-Shop.
- Open the page you want to edit and click the OnPage Composer icon at the top left of the page to open the OnPage Composer for that page.
- Drag the Countdown portlet to the desired position in the OnPage Composer. The Edit Countdown window opens.
- Click in the End date and time field. A calendar appears.
- Select the date on which you want the countdown to end. Then enter the time at which the countdown will end.
- Under Text after countdown ended, enter a text to be displayed once the countdown is over.
- Save the settings.
- Follow the further steps to preview and publish an edited page at Editing pages with the OnPage Composer.
Layout tab
Background colour: Here you can set a colour for the background of the countdown.
Font colour: Here you set the colour of the font of the countdown.
Font size: Here you set the size of the font of the countdown. Enter a CSS value here, e.g 5px, 0.5em, etc.
Border style/Border colour: Here you can specify whether the countdown should have a frame and what colour the frame should be.
Border rounding: Here you can specify whether the border should be rounded. You can specify the distance from the corner at which the rounding will start. You must specify a border style before you can do this. Enter a CSS value, e.g 5px, 0.5em, etc.
Custom class names: Enter here the class names to be appended to the class attribute of the portlet. The names you assign here can be, for example, CSS classes that are defined in the theme of the template. For more information, please see the developer documentation.
Hide portlet: Select here whether the portlet should be hidden when viewed on certain end devices. XS stands for mobile phones, SM for tablets, MD for desktop computers and LG for large desktop computers.
Margin: Here you can set for each page how much space in pixels should be between the element and the (imaginary) edge. The element is reduced/moved accordingly.
Border: Here you can set the size of the frame in pixels for each page.
Padding: Here you can set for each page how much space in pixels should be between the element and the (imaginary) edge.
Animation tab
Animation type: Here you can define how your countdown should be animated.
Duration: Here you can define how long the entire animation of the countdown should last.
Delay: Here you can define how much time should elapse before the first animation starts and before the next begins.
Distance (pixels): Here you can define the minimum distance between the upper edge of the corresponding element and the lower edge of the browser window that must be reached before the animation starts.
Repetition: Here you define how often the animation is to be repeated in total.
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