Styling Form Controls

You can color-style most form controls (each of which was described in Chapter 4) almost identically. To apply a background color, called shading in InfoPath, or to create a colored border for the form control, use the Borders and Shading option on the context menu. The Borders and Shading window opens; it has two tabs named, not surprisingly, Borders and Shading (see Figure 6.11).

Figure 6.11. The Borders and Shading window.

Creating a Border for a Form Control

The border for a form control is defined on the Borders tab. Three characteristics of the border can be defined: the style, the color, and the width.

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