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Integrate Web Chat into your website

Follow the instructions on the README.md page to integrate the Web Chat control into your website.

Customizing styles

The latest version of Web Chat control provides rich customization options: you can change colors, sizes, placement of elements, add custom elements, and interact with the hosting webpage. Below are several examples of how to customize those elements of the Web Chat UI.

You can find the full list of all settings that the Web Chat control understands here.

These settings will generate a style set, which is a set of CSS rules enhanced with glamor. You can find the full list of CSS styles generated in the style set here.

Change font or color

Instead of using the default background color and the fonts used inside of the chat bubbles, you can customize those to match the style of the target web page. The code snippet below allows you to change the background color of messages from the user and from the bot.

Screenshot with custom style options

If you need to do some simple styling, you can set them thru styleOptions. Style options are set of predefined styles that you can modify directly, and Web Chat will compute the whole stylesheet based on it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
    <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js"></script>
    <script>
      const styleOptions = {
        bubbleBackground: 'rgba(0, 0, 255, .1)',
        bubbleFromUserBackground: 'rgba(0, 255, 0, .1)'
      };

      window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
        directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ secret: 'YOUR_BOT_SECRET' }),

        // Passing "styleOptions" when rendering Web Chat
        styleOptions
      }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Change the CSS manually

In addition to colors, you can modify fonts used to render messages:

Screenshot with custom style set

For deeper styling, you can also modify the style set manually by setting the CSS rules directly.

Since CSS rules are tightly-coupled to the structure of the DOM tree, there is possibility that these rules need to be updated to work with the newer version of Web Chat.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
    <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js"></script>
    <script>
      // "styleSet" is a set of CSS rules which are generated from "styleOptions"
      const styleSet = window.WebChat.createStyleSet({
        bubbleBackground: 'rgba(0, 0, 255, .1)',
        bubbleFromUserBackground: 'rgba(0, 255, 0, .1)'
      });

      // After generated, you can modify the CSS rules
      styleSet.textContent = { ...styleSet.textContent,
        fontFamily: '\'Comic Sans MS\', \'Arial\', sans-serif',
        fontWeight: 'bold'
      };

      window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
        directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ secret: 'YOUR_BOT_SECRET' }),

        // Passing "styleSet" when rendering Web Chat
        styleSet
      }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Change the avatar of the bot within the dialog box

The latest Web Chat support avatar, you can customize them using botAvatarInitials and userAvatarInitials props.

Screenshot with avatar initials

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
    <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js"></script>
    <script>
      window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
        directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ secret: 'YOUR_BOT_SECRET' }),

        // Passing avatar initials when rendering Web Chat
        botAvatarInitials: 'BF',
        userAvatarInitials: 'WC'
      }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Inside the renderWebChat code, we added botAvatarInitials and userAvatarInitials:

botAvatarInitials: 'BF',
userAvatarInitials: 'WC'

botAvatarInitials will set the text inside the avatar on the left-hand side. If it is set to falsy value, the avatar on the bot side will be hidden. In contrast, userAvatarInitials will set the avatar text on the right-hand side.

Custom rendering activity or attachment

With the latest version of Web Chat, you can also render activities or attachments that Web Chat does not support out-of-the-box. Activities and attachments render are sent thru a customizable pipeline that modeled after Redux middleware. The pipeline is flexible enough that you can do the following tasks easily:

  • Decorate existing activities/attachments
  • Add new activities/attachments
  • Replace existing activities/attachments (or remove them)
  • Daisy chain middleware together

Show GitHub repository as an attachment

If you want to display a deck of GitHub repository cards, you can create a new React component for the GitHub repository and add it as a middleware for attachment.

Screenshot with custom GitHub repository attachment

import ReactWebChat from 'botframework-webchat';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

// Create a new React component that accept render a GitHub repository attachment
const GitHubRepositoryAttachment = props =>
  <div style={{ fontFamily: '\'Calibri\', \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, sans-serif', margin: 20, textAlign: 'center' }}>
    <svg height="64" viewBox="0 0 16 16" version="1.1" width="64" aria-hidden="true"><path fillRule="evenodd" d="M8 0C3.58 0 0 3.58 0 8c0 3.54 2.29 6.53 5.47 7.59.4.07.55-.17.55-.38 0-.19-.01-.82-.01-1.49-2.01.37-2.53-.49-2.69-.94-.09-.23-.48-.94-.82-1.13-.28-.15-.68-.52-.01-.53.63-.01 1.08.58 1.23.82.72 1.21 1.87.87 2.33.66.07-.52.28-.87.51-1.07-1.78-.2-3.64-.89-3.64-3.95 0-.87.31-1.59.82-2.15-.08-.2-.36-1.02.08-2.12 0 0 .67-.21 2.2.82.64-.18 1.32-.27 2-.27.68 0 1.36.09 2 .27 1.53-1.04 2.2-.82 2.2-.82.44 1.1.16 1.92.08 2.12.51.56.82 1.27.82 2.15 0 3.07-1.87 3.75-3.65 3.95.29.25.54.73.54 1.48 0 1.07-.01 1.93-.01 2.2 0 .21.15.46.55.38A8.013 8.013 0 0 0 16 8c0-4.42-3.58-8-8-8z"></path></svg>
    <p>
      <a href={ `https://github.com/${ encodeURI(props.owner) }/${ encodeURI(props.repo) }` } target="_blank">{ props.owner }/<br />{ props.repo }</a>
    </p>
  </div>;

// Creating a new middleware pipeline that will render <GitHubRepositoryAttachment> for specific type of attachment
const attachmentMiddleware = () => next => card => {
  switch (card.attachment.contentType) {
    case 'application/vnd.microsoft.botframework.samples.github-repository':
      return <GitHubRepositoryAttachment owner={ card.attachment.content.owner } repo={ card.attachment.content.repo } />;

    default:
      return next(card);
  }
};

ReactDOM.render(
  <ReactWebChat
    // Prepending the new middleware pipeline
    attachmentMiddleware={ attachmentMiddleware }
    directLine={ window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ token }) }
  />,
  document.getElementById('webchat')
);

The full sample can be found at /samples/10.customization-card-components/.

In this sample, we are adding a new React component called GitHubRepositoryAttachment:

const GitHubRepositoryAttachment = props =>
  <div style={{ fontFamily: '\'Calibri\', \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, sans-serif', margin: 20, textAlign: 'center' }}>
    <svg height="64" viewBox="0 0 16 16" version="1.1" width="64" aria-hidden="true"><path fillRule="evenodd" d="M8 0C3.58 0 0 3.58 0 8c0 3.54 2.29 6.53 5.47 7.59.4.07.55-.17.55-.38 0-.19-.01-.82-.01-1.49-2.01.37-2.53-.49-2.69-.94-.09-.23-.48-.94-.82-1.13-.28-.15-.68-.52-.01-.53.63-.01 1.08.58 1.23.82.72 1.21 1.87.87 2.33.66.07-.52.28-.87.51-1.07-1.78-.2-3.64-.89-3.64-3.95 0-.87.31-1.59.82-2.15-.08-.2-.36-1.02.08-2.12 0 0 .67-.21 2.2.82.64-.18 1.32-.27 2-.27.68 0 1.36.09 2 .27 1.53-1.04 2.2-.82 2.2-.82.44 1.1.16 1.92.08 2.12.51.56.82 1.27.82 2.15 0 3.07-1.87 3.75-3.65 3.95.29.25.54.73.54 1.48 0 1.07-.01 1.93-.01 2.2 0 .21.15.46.55.38A8.013 8.013 0 0 0 16 8c0-4.42-3.58-8-8-8z"></path></svg>
    <p>
      <a href={ `https://github.com/${ encodeURI(props.owner) }/${ encodeURI(props.repo) }` } target="_blank">{ props.owner }/<br />{ props.repo }</a>
    </p>
  </div>;

Then, we create a middleware that will render the new React component when the bot send attachment of content type application/vnd.microsoft.botframework.samples.github-repository. Otherwise, it will continue on the middleware by calling next(card).

const attachmentMiddleware = () => next => card => {
  switch (card.attachment.contentType) {
    case 'application/vnd.microsoft.botframework.samples.github-repository':
      return <GitHubRepositoryAttachment owner={ card.attachment.content.owner } repo={ card.attachment.content.repo } />;

    default:
      return next(card);
  }
};

The activity sent from the bot looks like the following:

{
  "type": "message",
  "from": {
    "role": "bot"
  },
  "attachmentLayout": "carousel",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "contentType": "application/vnd.microsoft.botframework.samples.github-repository",
      "content": {
        "owner": "Microsoft",
        "repo": "BotFramework-WebChat"
      }
    },
    {
      "contentType": "application/vnd.microsoft.botframework.samples.github-repository",
      "content": {
        "owner": "Microsoft",
        "repo": "BotFramework-Emulator"
      }
    },
    {
      "contentType": "application/vnd.microsoft.botframework.samples.github-repository",
      "content": {
        "owner": "Microsoft",
        "repo": "BotFramework-DirectLineJS"
      }
    }
  ]
}