Payment Form: Cookbook

Customize Payment Form Appearance

The SqPaymentForm library offers two ways to configure a payment form in your website:

Multi-element payment form. You build the payment form with multiple DOM elements and map each element to a SqPaymentForm configuration field (cardNumber, cvv, expirationDate, and postalCode).
Single-element payment form. You build the payment form with one DOM element and map it to the card configuration field provided by the SqPaymentForm library.

Overview

The following example shows the two ways you can configure a payment form:

PaymentFormTwoConfigOptions

For an example, see Walkthrough: Integrate Square Payments in a Website. The topics explain what the library does for the look and feel of the payment form and how you might customize it to conform to your page styles.

Customize the appearance of the multi-element payment form

The SqPaymentForm library renders HTML input elements inside iframes. When you want to customize the appearance of these inputs, note the following caveat:

An iframe is an element in your HTML page and therefore you can customize the iframe styles (for example, customize the height of the iframe and the border drawn around the iframe).
However, the area where buyers enter information (such as, a card number or expiration date) is Square's HTML within the iframe that your CSS cannot customize. Instead, you direct the SqPaymentForm library to customize this portion.

For example, if you inspect any of the payment form elements in your browser, you see the HTML page containing <iframe> elements in the <body>. Each <iframe> element has an <html> child (Square's HTML) that contains the <input> element. The following is an example HTML fragment:

<body>
   <div id="form-container">
   <iframe id="sq-card-number" name="sq-card-number" class="sq-input" frameborder="0" width="100%" scrolling="no" height="56" src="https://pci-connect.squareupsandbox.com/v2/iframe?type=cardNumber&amp;version=b5165b172b">
      <html>
         <head>...</head>
         <body>
            <form novalidate="true"><input autocomplete="cc-number" placeholder="Card Number" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 16px; background-color: blue;"></form>
         </body>
      </html>
   </iframe>
   <iframe id="sq-expiration-date" ... class="sq-input third">...</iframe>
   <iframe id="sq-cvv"      ...        class="sq-input third">...</iframe>
   <iframe id="sq-postal-code"     ... class="sq-input third">...</iframe>
   ...
</body>

Therefore, to customize the appearance of the multi-element payment form, the SqPaymentForm library provides the following two configuration fields:

inputClass. Identifies the CSS class name. You declare the class somewhere in your project and reference the containing .css file in the HTML head section. The library uses the specified CSS class to customize styles of the iframe element.
inputStyles. An array of InputStyle objects that provide styles that library uses to customize the <input> rendered inside the iframe. The library supports a set of styles to choose for this customization.

You specify these configuration fields when you initialize the SqPaymentForm object.

Multi-element payment form example

To explore customization of the multi-element payment form appearance, do the following:

Complete the SqPaymentForm walkthrough to create a multi-element payment form. For more information, see Walkthrough: Integrate Square Payments in a Website. Do not follow the additional steps provided at the end of the walkthrough to build a single-element payment.

Review the following code components:

Layout of the iframe elements. You see the following layout of the SqPaymentForm iframe elements:
This layout is defined by the following <div> block in the index.html. Three of the iframe elements (sq-expiration-date, CVV, and sq-postal-code) specify a class (third). The styles defined in the class cause the elements to appear on the same line.
```
/* 
    Defines the order of iFrames on the page. 
    The class "third" defines the size, and  position of x axis ..see the .css file 
*/
<div id="form-container">
    <div id="sq-card-number"></div>
    <div class="third" id="sq-expiration-date"></div>
    <div class="third" id="sq-cvv"></div>
    <div class="third" id="sq-postal-code"></div>
    ...
</div>
```
If you inspect these payment form elements in your browser, you see the corresponding iframe elements with the class attribute showing the third class.

Customize iframe styles. In index.html, the SqPaymentForm initialization specifies the inputClass configuration field that sets the CSS class to use for the iframe styles.

 const paymentForm = new SqPaymentForm({
     ...
     inputClass: 'sq-input',
    ...
 });

The sq-input class is defined in the mysqpaymentform.css file as follows:

.sq-input {
height: 56px;
box-sizing: border-box;
border: 1px solid #E0E2E3;
background-color: white;
border-radius: 6px;
display: inline-block;
-webkit-transition: border-color .2s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: border-color .2s ease-in-out;
    -ms-transition: border-color .2s ease-in-out;
        transition: border-color .2s ease-in-out;
}

You can explore customization by changing these CSS styles and review the resulting payment form.

Customize the input styles within the iframe. The SqPaymentForm initialization specifies the inputStyles configuration field to define custom styles for the <input> element in the iframe.

// Customize the CSS for the SqPaymentForm iframe elements INTERNAL styles.
const paymentForm = new SqPaymentForm({
…
        inputStyles: [{
            fontSize: '16px',
            lineHeight: '24px',
            padding: '16px',
            placeholderColor: '#a0a0a0',
            backgroundColor: 'transparent',
        }], 

    …
 });

The style applies to all four SqPaymentForm input fields in the iframes. The inputStyles defines the internal styles applied to the rendered iframes. For a list of input style properties that SqPaymentForm supports, see InputStyle.

Customize the appearance of the single-element payment form

To build the single-element payment form, you use the card configuration field of SqPaymentForm. The look and feel you get is defined by the default CSS configuration the library provides with the card element. You can optionally customize the appearance using card.inputStyle (of type InputStyle) as described in this section.

The following example shows a single-element payment form with custom styles and highlights the components you can customize:

single-element-form-dark-ui

As the example shows, you can customize:

The payment form background color, shape, and other attributes.
The font and color of the placeholder text.
The font and color of text as users enter information.
The font and color of user data input errors for the following:
- Incorrect user data text
- Helper text message

Single-element payment form example

If you want to test the custom styling of the single-element payment form using the card.inputStyle, do the following:

Complete the SqPaymentForm example walkthrough. For more information, see Walkthrough: Integrate Square Payments in a Website. Make sure you complete the tasks in the Build a single-element payment form (beta) section near the end of the walkthrough. The resulting payment form you see uses the default CSS styling that the card configuration element provides. You can now apply custom styles.
Set the background color of the page.
1. Open mysqpaymentform.css.
2. Set the background color of the page.
```
   body, html {
          background-color: #2F2F2F;
 }
```

Add custom styles so the payment form appears as shown in the preceding example. Open index.html and add the card.inputStyle configuration field as shown:

card:
{
  elementId: 'sq-card',
  inputStyle:
  {
    //Set font attributes on card entry fields
    fontSize: '16px',
    fontWeight: 500,
    fontFamily: 'futura',
    placeholderFontWeight: 300,
    autoFillColor: '#FFFFFF',    //Sets color of card nbr & exp. date
    color: '#FFFFFF',            //Sets color of CVV & Zip
    placeholderColor: '#A5A5A5', //Sets placeholder text color
    //Set form appearance
    backgroundColor: '#000',  //Card entry background color
    cardIconColor: '#A5A5A5', //Card Icon color
    borderRadius: '50px',
    boxShadow: "0px 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,.02)," +
      "0px 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0, 0.04), 0px 8px 30px " +
      "rgba(0,0,0, 0.04), 0px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0, 0.08)",
    //Set form appearance in error state
    error:
    {
      cardIconColor: '#FF1ADA', //Sets color of card icon
      color: '#FF4DB8',         //Sets color of card entry text
      backgroundColor: '#000',  //Card entry background color
      fontWeight: 500,
      fontFamily: 'futura'      //Font of the input field in error
    },
    //Set appearance of hint text below form
    details:
    {
      hidden: false,    //Shows or hides hint text
      color: '#A5A5A5', //Sets hint text color
      fontSize: '12px', //Not inherited from parent, Sets size of
      //text, defaults to 12px
      fontWeight: 500,  //Not inherited from parent
      fontFamily: 'futura', //Not inherited from parent, required to render form
      error:
      { //Sets attributes of hint text in when form
        color: '#FF4DB8', //is in error state
        fontSize: '12px'
      }
    }
  }
}

Test the application and you see the payment form with the custom styles you specified.

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