Learning Splunk Web Framework

CSS and dashboard menus

We have been using the Splunk Web Framework to set up our menus for quite a few chapters now. Splunkmenus are limited in the way we can control the look and feel of how the menu works and there is not much in the way of individualization or customization. If you have worked with CSS before, you would be familiar with setting up menus across the top or side of your HTML documents. We are going to quickly add some CSS to the header of our raw dashboard to set up a menu on the side of our screen. Let's start working through the code and we will step through the CSS and changes you need to make to get this working, as we have in the previous chapters:

1. We should still be in our development environment and working in our html ...