Color state diagram "choice"

[xeruf]

Reading through https://plantuml.com/state-diagram there seems to be no way to style a "choice"-element, i.e. change background and border color?

I had assumed skinparam state would then apply to it as well, but it doesn't...

[The-Lum]

Hello @xeruf,

For that you can use style as:

@startuml
<style>
  diamond {
    BackgroundColor #palegreen
    LineColor #green
    LineThickness 2.5
}
</style>
state state1
state state2 
state choice1 <<choice>>
state end3    <<end>>

state1  --> choice1 : 1
choice1 --> state2  : 2
choice1 --> end3    : 3
@enduml

If that can help,
Regards.

[xeruf]

Thank you very much! Please add that to the documentation :)

Though I am a little confused that there are html-like <style> blocks in addition to skinparam - is there any system in that? They seem to overlap in some places as well.

[arnaudroques]

Though I am a little confused that there are html-like <style> blocks in addition to skinparam - is there any system in that? They seem to overlap in some places as well.

Yes, we are very slowly moving from skinparam to <style> but right now, not everything is possible through <style> so that's why skinparam is still there and that they overlap.

In some far future, skinparam will be deprecated (although we will still support it) and users will be encouraged to use only <style>. But right now, this is not ready :-)

[The-Lum]

Hi all,

[This is an Issue Review]
This is now answered.

• Thanks @xeruf for the report.
• Thanks PlantUML team for your work.

Regards.