<![CDATA[Sidebar button/badge customisation]]>The sidebar feature is pretty neat and powerful, but it can't be said about the buttons.

First of all, the background of the button should inherit the background color of the panel. If I use any color instead of white, the button looks bad.

Second, the button itself can show information even when the panel is closed. Now we can set the text and the background color of the badge, but not the color of the text. It locks out half of the color wheel. I know I can generate icons with a canvas, but that's too much trouble to change the text color.

And please, remove that gradient overlay from the badge.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/9858/sidebar-button-badge-customisationRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 11:23:18 GMTSat, 16 May 2015 13:41:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Sidebar button/badge customisation on Wed, 27 May 2015 16:14:28 GMT]]>

NOTHING changed

By future updates in don't mean the next one! We are working on some of these, and they will be released once its ready.

Then what is the line in the changelog?

OK, I know what "future updates" means, but that line drew my attention.

And you should update the API reference, because it is outdated. Still states that the badge is not supported.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/76086https://forums.opera.com/post/76086Wed, 27 May 2015 16:14:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sidebar button/badge customisation on Wed, 27 May 2015 10:15:39 GMT]]>

NOTHING changed

By future updates in don't mean the next one! We are working on some of these, and they will be released once its ready.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/76059https://forums.opera.com/post/76059Wed, 27 May 2015 10:15:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sidebar button/badge customisation on Tue, 26 May 2015 13:42:01 GMT]]>

Thanks, we're aware of the issues you mentioned here. You'll see some of these improved in further updates.

DNA-36949 Finish the side bar

NOTHING changed.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/75970https://forums.opera.com/post/75970Tue, 26 May 2015 13:42:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sidebar button/badge customisation on Thu, 21 May 2015 17:30:36 GMT]]>I think you should change the part of the API related to the badge to one get and one set functions with one object as an argument. The object can contain a few basic CSS properties like color, bgcolor and border-radius.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/75610https://forums.opera.com/post/75610Thu, 21 May 2015 17:30:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sidebar button/badge customisation on Thu, 21 May 2015 09:52:25 GMT]]>Thanks, we're aware of the issues you mentioned here. You'll see some of these improved in further updates. 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/75580https://forums.opera.com/post/75580Thu, 21 May 2015 09:52:25 GMT