Category: Sheet Author
Do you want to make a character sheet or tweak an existing one? You’ll need to grasp HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and roll20 has its own tweaks that makes each of those a little more complicated. Don’t worry though – that’s where this blog comes in. If you’re a newbie to any of these things, you’ll find help here.
Understanding Selectors
How to target elements and blocks, and apply your styles to the sheet.
CSS Grid Layouts
Lying out your sheet into columns and grids, with a surprisingly simple system.
Text and Fonts
Text and associated properties (such as underlining and shadow effects), and using Google Fonts.
Images and Colours
Decorating the sheet with images and colour.
How Elements are Displayed
How to arrange elements on the page. Understanding the box model of CSS and the display property.
Getting Started With CSS
The basics of CSS – syntax, what a declaration block is, how to apply properties, etc.
Guide to CSS – Styling a Character Sheet
An introduction to the CSS Guide, with a table of contents.
Buttons that Create Other Buttons
How to create attack rolls that include a damage button, and similar buttons.
Sandbox Sheet Glitches
There’s a couple of weird nuisances you can encounter when using the sandbox, Here’s how to deal with them.
Default Sheet Settings
In some systems, it’s handy to provide some settings a GM can set for all sheets in the campaign at once. Here’s how.
Publishing Sheet Images
It’s very common for sheets to lose images. ruining their design. It’s pretty simple to stop this from happening.
Publishing Sheets to GitHub
Here’s a quick guide to uploading your sheet to to the Roll20 repo on GitHub to share your sheet with the community.
