I have been trying to edit the admin login page to be more similar to the rest of my website. I saw similar topics related to LimeSurvey 2.X, however I am a man of culture and like to keep up to date with updates. What I have discovered so far is that limesurvey/application/views/admin/authentication/login.php is where I can do most of the visual changes for the login page (while also being careful not to disturb the php integration).What I have discovered though, is that the code for the text fields to login are not anywhere to be seen in this file.
This is what I have currently:

And this is what I want:


Does anyone know what file to manipulate to achieve this?

You should not make those changes in the files directly, every update that touches this file will revert your changes.

Afaik this login page should be controlled within the admin theme. You should be able to create a custom admin theme (probably best to copy an existing one, not sure if you need to register it in some kind of configuration file, or if Limesurvey just recognizes the new folder and that's it).

however I am a man of culture and like to keep up to date with updates.

Very recommendable. However, I would recommend to stay with 3.x LTS at the moment, because in my opinion the 4.x version is not yet ready for production.

Oh that's true, didn't even consider that, thanks!

So I've been perusing around admin themes and I've noticed that my options are rather limited.
Considering I can inject JS files with this, I reckon that I just change all the HTML through a .js file then. Y'all reckon this the best way to approach this?

It can be done using a mix of jquery and css.

But : if you can not doi it yourslef : what reason to update this ?
This is really not a big difference, and you must care of a11y (it's OK currently (on login)).

Considering I can inject JS files with this, I reckon that I just change all the HTML through a .js file then. Y'all reckon this the best way to approach this?

Yes, I think this is the easiest solutions.

- www.limesurvey.org/manual/Custom_Admin_T...nto_a_custom_theme_2