Themes

Documentation on how to apply custom themes to Umbraco Forms

Umbraco Forms supports Themes, allowing forms to be customized in a much simpler manner.

Creating a Theme

To create a theme, you need to create a folder at /Views/Partials/Forms/Themes/. The name of the folder is the name of theme that will be visible in the backoffice when choosing it.

Copy the explicit files you wish to override in your theme, it may be a single file or all files from the default theme folder. Make the necessary changes you desire to CSS class names, markup etc.

Obtaining the Default Theme Files

For Umbraco 9 and previous, it's straightforward to copy the files you need from the default theme folder. We highly recommend that you never customize any files found in the default themes folder. There is a risk that any customizations to these files will be lost with any future upgrades you do to Umbraco Forms. Umbraco 10+ distributes these files as part of a Razor Class Library, so you won't find them on disk. Instead you should download the appropriate zip file for your Forms version and extract the ones you need.

You can obtain the latest version of the Forms default theme from the following links:

You should use the theme available for the highest version that's less or equal to the version of Forms you have installed. For example, when using Umbraco Forms 13.4.0, and no file for that version is available use version 13.3.0 instead.

Amending Theme Files

Umbraco Forms conditional JavaScript logic depends on some CSS classes currently and it is advised that you add any additional classes you require but do not remove those already being set.

If adding or amending client-side scripts, you need to copy the Script.cshtml file from the default themes folder. In your copy, amend the .js references to reference your own script files.

Shipping Themes in a Razor Class Library

Umbraco Forms provides it's built-in themes as part of a Razor Class Library for ease of distribution. This can be useful for custom themes, particularly those used in multiple solutions or released as an Umbraco package.

From Forms 13.3 it is possible to do this for custom themes.

Create a new Razor Class Library project to hold the theme.
Create the necessary Partial Views for your theme within Views\Partials\Forms\Themes\<my-custom-theme>.
Provide the names of the files in your theme via an implementation of ITheme.

For example, if only overriding a single file, your class would look like the code snippet below:

using Umbraco.Forms.Core.Interfaces;

public class MyCustomTheme : ITheme
{
    private const string FilePathFormat = "{0}/{1}/{2}.cshtml";

    public virtual string Name => "my-custom-theme";

    public virtual IEnumerable<string> Files =>
        [
            string.Format(FilePathFormat, Core.Constants.System.ThemesPath, Name, "FieldTypes/FieldType.Textfield"),
        ];
}

public class MyComposer : IComposer
{
    public void Compose(IUmbracoBuilder builder)
    {
      builder.Themes()
          .Add<MyCustomTheme>();
    }
}

Your theme will now be available in the Theme Picker and the partial view files will be used when rendering forms.

Email Templates

Email templates provided for the send email workflow can be provided in a Razor Class Library similar to the Theme files.

The partial view will be created in Views\Partials\Forms\Emails.

It's made available via an implementation of IEmailTemplate:

using Umbraco.Forms.Core.Interfaces;

public class MyCustomEmailTemplate : IEmailTemplate
{
    public virtual string FileName => "My-Custom-Email-Template.cshtml";
}

And registered with:

public class MyComposer : IComposer
{
    public void Compose(IUmbracoBuilder builder)
    {
      builder.EmailTemplates()
          .Add<MyCustomEmailTemplate>();
    }
}

Removing the Default Email Template

If providing custom email templates, you may want to remove the one provided with Forms. You can do that via the same EmailTemplates collection.

public class MyComposer : IComposer
{
    public void Compose(IUmbracoBuilder builder)
    {
      builder.EmailTemplates()
          .Exclude<DefaultEmailTemplate>();
    }
}

Using a Theme

To use a theme with a Form use the "Insert Form" macro where you will be presented with the options of the form you wish to insert along with an option to pick a theme. This displays the list of theme folders found at Views/Partials/Forms/Themes.

When you are rendering your form directly in your template, you need to specify your theme by filling out the FormTheme attribute:

@await Umbraco.RenderMacroAsync("renderUmbracoForm", new {FormGuid="1ec026cb-d4d3-496c-b8e8-90e0758c78d8", FormTheme="MyFormTheme", ExcludeScripts="0"})

If you do not pick and/or set a theme, the default theme will be used to render the form.

Theme Fallbacks

When using a theme, Umbraco Forms will try to use a view from the theme folder, but then fallback to the same view in the default theme folder if it can't be found. This allows you to create a theme by only modifying the files necessary to make your customizations.

Files which can be overridden:

Render.cshtml (overrides the entire form - usually not needed)
Form.cshtml (overrides the generation of the fields on the current page)
Script.cshtml (overrides the way files are included with the form)
/Fieldtypes/FieldType.*.cshtml (overrides a specific view for a field)

Helper Methods

SetFormThemeCssFile

Sets the primary form theme stylesheet path. This overrides an already assigned stylesheet and will be rendered out when inserting the form into the page

Html.SetFormThemeCssFile(Model, "~/App_Plugins/UmbracoForms/Assets/Themes/Default/style.css")

AddFormThemeScriptFile

Add a JavaScript file path to include on form render

Html.AddFormThemeScriptFile("~/App_Plugins/UmbracoForms/Assets/themes/default/umbracoforms.js");

SetFormFieldClass

Adds a class to the form field HTML element of a given type. If no type is given, it will add the class to all fields

// Applies the CSS class 'form-control' to all fields that GetFormFieldClass uses in FieldType views
@Html.SetFormFieldClass("form-control")

// Applies the CSS class 'some-other-class' for the FieldType of the name 'Password'
@Html.SetFormFieldClass("some-other-class", "Password")

GetFormFieldClass

Retrieves all classes for a given field type, used when rendering form fieldtype partial views

class="@Html.GetFormFieldClass(Model.FieldTypeName)"

SetFormFieldWrapperClass

Adds a class to the div element wrapping around form fields of a given type. If no type is given, it will add the class to all fields

// Applies the CSS class 'form-group' around all fields, labels & help texts
@Html.SetFormFieldWrapperClass("form-group")

// Applies the CSS class 'some-other-class' for the FieldType of the name 'Password'
@Html.SetFormFieldWrapperClass("some-other-class", "Password")

GetFormFieldWrapperClass

Retrieves all wrapper classes for a given field type, used when rendering form fields. This class wraps both label, help-text and the field itself in the default view

class="@Html.GetFormFieldWrapperClass(f.FieldTypeName)"

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