Themes

Form Fields

Id Optional

An optional UUID. When this value is omitted a unique Id will be generated automatically.

Name Required

A unique name to identify the theme. This name is for display purposes only and it can be modified later if desired.

Templates

Stylesheet (CSS) Optional

This CSS stylesheet may be used to style the themed pages.

This CSS will be included in the head tag in the Helpers head macro. You may also choose to include other remote stylesheets by using the <style> tag within the head macro.

<style>
  ${theme.stylesheet()}
</style>

Messages Optional

This section allows you to add additional localized messages to your theme. When creating an additional locale it is not required that all messages are defined for each language. If a message key is not defined for the specified locale, the value from the default bundles will be used.

If you intend to localize your login templates, you may find our community contributed and maintained messages in our GitHub repository helpful.

Helpers Required

This template contains all of the main helper macros to define the head, body and footer. To begin theming FusionAuth you’ll want to start with this template as it will affect all other templates.

See the Helpers page for additional information.

Account edit Required Since 1.26.0

This page contains a form that enables authenticated users to update their profile.

/account/edit

Account index Required Since 1.26.0

This is the self-service account landing page. An authenticated user may use this as a starting point for operations such as updating their profile or configuring multi-factor authentication.

/account

Account two-factor disable Required Since 1.26.0

This page contains a form that accepts a verification code used to disable a multi-factor authentication method.

/account/two-factor/disable

Account two-factor enable Required Since 1.26.0

This page contains a form that accepts a verification code used to enable a multi-factor authentication method. Additionally, this page displays recovery codes when a user enables multi-factor authentication for the first time.

/account/two-factor/enable

Account two-factor index Required Since 1.26.0

This page displays an authenticated user’s configured multi-factor authentication methods. Additionally, it provides links to enable and disable a method.

/account/two-factor

Email verification complete Required

This page is used after a user has verified their email address by clicking the URL in the email. After FusionAuth has updated their user object to indicate that their email was verified, the browser is redirected to this page.

/email/complete

Email verification re-sent Required

This page is used after a user has asked for the verification email to be resent. This can happen if the URL in the email expired and the user clicked it. In this case, the user can provide their email address again and FusionAuth will resend the email. After the user submits their email and FusionAuth re-sends a verification email to them, the browser is redirected to this page.

/email/sent

Email verification required Required Since 1.27.0

This page is rendered when a user is required to verify their email address prior to being allowed to proceed with login. This occurs when Unverified behavior is set to Gated in email verification settings on the Tenant.

/email/verification-required

Email verification Required

This page is rendered when a user clicks the URL from the verification email and the verificationId has expired. FusionAuth expires verificationId after a period of time (which is configurable). If the user has a URL from the verification email that has expired, this page will be rendered and the error will be displayed to the user.

/email/verify

Index Required Since 1.27.0

This is the root landing page. This page is available to unauthenticated users and will be displayed whenever someone navigates to the FusionAuth host’s root page. Prior to version 1.27.0, navigating to this URL would redirect to /admin and would subsequently render the FusionAuth admin login page.

/

OAuth authorize Required

This is the main login page for FusionAuth and is used for all interactive OAuth2 and OpenID Connect workflows.

/oauth2/authorize

OAuth authorized not registered Required Since 1.28.0

This page is rendered when a user is not registered and the Application configuration requires registration before FusionAuth will complete the redirect.

/oauth2/authorized-not-registered

OAuth child registration not allowed Required

This page contains a form where a child must provide their parent’s email address to ask their parent to create an account for them in a Consent workflow.

/oauth2/child-registration-not-allowed

OAuth child registration not allowed complete Required

This page is rendered after a child provides their parent’s email address for parental consent in a Consent workflow.

/oauth2/child-registration-not-allowed-complete

OAuth complete registration Required

This page contains a form that is used for users that have accounts but might be missing required fields.

/oauth2/complete-registration

OAuth device Required Since 1.11.0

This page contains a form for accepting an end user’s short code for the interactive portion of the OAuth Device Authorization Grant workflow.

/oauth2/device

OAuth device complete Required Since 1.12.0

This page contains a complete message indicating the device authentication has completed.

/oauth2/device-complete

OAuth error Required

This page is used if the user starts or is in the middle of the OAuth workflow and any type of error occurs. This could be caused by the user messing with the URL or internally some type of information wasn’t passed between the OAuth endpoints correctly. For example, if you are federating login to an external IdP and that IdP does not properly echo the state parameter, FusionAuth’s OAuth workflow will break and this page will be displayed.

/oauth2/error

OAuth logout Required

This page is used if the user initiates an OAuth logout. This page causes the user to be logged out of all associated applications or just the initiating application, as configured, via a front-channel mechanism before being redirected.

/oauth2/logout

OAuth passwordless Required

This page is rendered when the user starts the passwordless login workflow. The page renders the form where the user types in their email address.

/oauth2/passwordless

OAuth register Required

This page is used to register or sign up the user for the application when self-service registration is enabled.

/oauth2/register

OAuth start IdP link Required Since 1.28.0

This page is used if the linking strategy of the Identity Provider is set to create a pending link. The user is presented with the option to link their account with an existing FusionAuth user account or create a new FusionAuth user.

/oauth2/start-idp-link

OAuth two-factor Required

This page is used if the user has two-factor authentication enabled and they need to type in their code again. FusionAuth will properly handle the processing on the back end. This page contains the form that the user will put their code into.

/oauth2/two-factor

OAuth two-factor methods Required Since 1.26.0

This page contains a form providing a user with their configured multi-factor authentication options that they may use to complete the authentication challenge.

/oauth2/two-factor-methods

OAuth wait Required Since 1.12.0

This page is rendered when FusionAuth is waiting for an external provider to complete an out of band authentication request. For example, during a HYPR login this page will be displayed until the user completes authentication.

/oauth2/wait

OAuth Change password form Required

This page is used if the user is required to change their password or if they have requested a password reset. This page contains the form that allows the user to provide a new password.

/password/change

OAuth password complete Required

This page is used after the user has successfully updated their password, or reset it. This page should instruct the user that their password was updated and that they need to login again.

/password/complete

Forgot password Required

This page is used when a user starts the forgot password workflow. This page renders the form where the user types in their email address.

/password/forgot

Forgot password sent Required

This page is used when a user has submitted the forgot password form with their email. FusionAuth does not indicate back to the user if their email address was valid in order to prevent malicious activity that could reveal valid email addresses. Therefore, this page should indicate to the user that if their email was valid, they will receive an email shortly with a link to reset their password.

/password/sent

Verify registration complete Required

This page is used after a user has verified their email address for a specific application (i.e. a user registration) by clicking the URL in the email. After FusionAuth has updated their registration object to indicate that their email was verified, the browser is redirected to this page.

/registration/complete

Verify registration re-sent Required

This page is used after a user has asked for the application specific verification email to be resent. This can happen if the URL in the email expired and the user clicked it. In this case, the user can provide their email address again and FusionAuth will resend the email. After the user submits their email and FusionAuth re-sends a verification email to them, the browser is redirected to this page.

/registration/sent

Verify registration required Required Since 1.27.0

This page is rendered when a user is required to verify their registration prior to being allowed to proceed with the registration flow. This occurs when Unverified behavior is set to Gated in registration verification settings on the Application.

/registration/verification-required

Verify registration Required

This page is used when a user clicks the URL from the application specific verification email and the verificationId has expired. FusionAuth expires verificationId after a period of time (which is configurable). If the user has a URL from the verification email that has expired, this page will be rendered and the error will be displayed to the user.

/registration/verify

SAML logout Required Since 1.25.0

This page is used if the user initiates a SAML logout. This page causes the user to be logged out of all associated applications via a front-channel mechanism before being redirected.

/samlv2/logout

Unauthorized Required Since 1.30.0

This page is used if the user is not authorized to use the application or page. If you have advanced threat detection enabled, this page is generally made available to you.

/unauthorized

Displaying Messages

You can customize messages by locale. You can also have optional keys.

Consider the following message bundle and theme usage example with English and German messages defined.

greeting=Good day

greeting=Guten Tag
optional-greeting=Mitmensch

<p>${theme.message('greeting')} ${theme.optionalMessage('optional-greeting')}</p>

If I have selected German as my locale, I will be greeted with Guten Tag Mitmensch rendered on the page.

If I have English selected I will instead find the greeting Good day optional-greeting.

The behavior differs between theme.message and theme.optionalMessage only when the key doesn’t exist in any of the messages files, including the default one.

When there is no suitable key found and theme.message is used, an exception is thrown and the template fails to completely render. When there is no suitable key found and theme.optionalMessage is used, the key value is returned: optional-message in the example above.

Here’s an example of a template that will render for a user with a German locale but fail for a user with an English locale, because message fails when there is no key found:

<p>${theme.message('optional-greeting')}</p>

Here’s a Freemarker function which returns an empty string when there is no value found for an optional message:

[#function getOptionalMessage key=""]
  [#if "${theme.optionalMessage(key)}" == "${key}"]
    [#return "" /]
  [/#if]
  [#return theme.optionalMessage(key) /]
[/#function]

If you add this to your _helpers.ftl file, you can call it like this:

[@helpers.getOptionalMessage key="optional-greeting" /]

There’s an open issue on changing the behavior of optionalMessage.

Customizing the Authorize Page

Now that you have a good overview of all the templates, macros and helpers, here is an example of customizing the Authorize page.

Let’s assume you want to change the header and footer across all of the pages including the Authorize page. This is accomplished by editing the helpers.header and helpers.footer macros. For the header, let’s assume you want to add a Sign Up and Login link. For the footer, let’s assume you want to add a link to your privacy policy. Here are the macros that include these new links:

[#macro header]
  <header class="my-custom-header">
    <nav>
      <ul>
        <li class="login"><a target="_blank" href="https://my-application.com/login">Login</li>
        <li class="sign-up"><a target="_blank" href="https://my-application.com/sign-up">Sign Up</li>
      </ul>
    </nav>
  </header>

  [#nested/]
[/#macro]

[#macro footer]
  <footer class="my-custom-footer">
    <nav>
      <ul>
        <li class="privacy-policy"><a target="_blank" href="https://my-application.com/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</li>
      </ul>
    </nav>
  </footer>

  [#nested/]
[/#macro]

Once you make these changes, they will take effect on all of the pages listed above.

Theme Errors Prevent Login

If you have edited a template and it is causing errors preventing you from logging in to FusionAuth, you can override the use of the UI templates. This will render a form allowing you to log in. To do this:

• Open your browser and access your FusionAuth admin UI.

• This will redirect you to the broken /oauth2/authorize page.

• Click in your browser’s address bar and scroll to the end.

• Add the String &bypassTheme=true to the end of the URL and hit the Enter key.

This should render the default login page that ships with FusionAuth and allow you to log in and fix any errors you have.

Default Theme Used Incorrectly

Anytime a request is made to a themed page and we are unable to identify the tenant, the default tenant will be used. This includes, but is not limited to:

• The root page / when a client_id or tenantId is not provided.

• Any themed pages such as /password/forgot when a client_id is not provided.

• Edge case error conditions where FusionAuth doesn’t have context to determine the application or tenant.

If you see the default theme unexpectedly, ensure you are passing required parameters, such as the tenantId or client_id, to the page so that it can determine the applicable application or tenant. These parameters allow FusionAuth to determine the correct theme to display.

Templates

When new functionality is introduced to the hosted login pages, new theme templates are occasionally added. They are added to the default theme by the upgrade process, but if you’ve customized your theme to fit your brand, you’ll need to modify the theme to have the new template.

In the version release notes, any new templates and macros are documented. If there are changes, you’ll want to take a closer look at the themes post upgrade.

As part of your upgrade testing, open the administrative user interface and navigate to Customizations > Themes.

If any themes are missing templates, they will show as "Upgrade Required". Port the new theme files over to your custom theme, modify them as needed, and save the theme.

Messages

When new functionality is introduced to the hosted login pages, new theme message keys are sometimes required. They are added to the default theme messages file by the upgrade process.

However, if you have customized your theme, the new keys are not added to that modified theme. The first time you try to modify your theme, you’ll receive an error message similar to the text below:

Missing required keys. See text area below for default English translations. To continue, please copy the values from below into the Messages text area.

FusionAuth warns you about missing required keys in order to avoid an inadvertent bad user experience. The default display for keys with no valid values in theme Messages is the key text, such as [ExternalAuthenticationException]LinkedInToken, which can be confusing for end users.

During an upgrade, you can find these keys by testing the upgrade on a development instance or comparing releases in the fusionauth-localization repo. You can safely add these new key values to your theme prior to an upgrade. Any unused messages in a theme’s messages file are silently ignored (unless malformed).

The extra lines won’t do any harm, and will ensure an excellent end user experience if they stumble on new functionality right after an upgrade.