Widgets allow quick composition of the HTML for particular Bootstrap components, which requires usage of the
Bootstrap CSS classes. Those classes are added automatically by the widgets. However usually widget provides
fields or properties, which allow customization of the CSS styles for particular HTML tags.
The widgets allow quick composition of the HTML for the bootstrap components that require the bootstrap CSS classes.
The default classes for a particular component will be added automatically by the widget, and the optional classes that you may want to customize are usually supported through the properties of the widget.
For example: you may use [[yii\bootstrap\Button::options]] to customize appearance of the rendered button.
Class 'btn' will be added automatically, so you don't need to worry about it. All you need is specify particular
button class:
For example, you may use [[yii\bootstrap\Button::options]] to customize the appearance of a button.
The class 'btn' which is required for a button will be added automatically, so you don't need to worry about it.
All you need is specify a particular button class:
```php
echo Button::widget([
@ -36,17 +35,16 @@ echo Button::widget([
]);
```
However, sometimes you may need to replace standard class, added by the widget, with alternative one.
For example: widget [[yii\bootstrap\ButtonGroup]] uses 'btn-group' class for the container div, but you may
need to use 'btn-group-vertical', which allows vertical-style layout for the buttons. Using plain 'class' option
simply adds 'btn-group-vertical' to 'btn-group', which produces incorrect result.
In order to actually replace class added by widget, you need to specify 'class' option as array, containing
needed class name under the 'widget' key:
However, sometimes you may need to replace the default classes with the alternative ones.
For example, the widget [[yii\bootstrap\ButtonGroup]] uses 'btn-group' class for the container div by default,
but you may need to use 'btn-group-vertical' instead to align the buttons vertically.
Using a plain 'class' option simply adds 'btn-group-vertical' to 'btn-group', which will produce an incorrect result.
In order to override the default classes of a widget, you need to specify the 'class' option as an array that contains the customized class definition under the 'widget' key:
```php
echo ButtonGroup::widget([
'options' => [
'class' => ['widget' => 'btn-group-vertical'] // replace 'btn-group' with 'btn-group-vertical'
'class' => ['widget' => 'btn-group-vertical'] // replaces 'btn-group' with 'btn-group-vertical'