Style Sheet Sets

You are here: Contributors Reference > CommonSpot Menus > Manage Menu > Style Sheet Sets

Style Sheet Sets

Pages rendered using style sheets typically use more than one. For example, you might have a “main.css” style sheet that contains general style sheet definitions and a “home.css” containing styles specific to the home page. A style sheet set contains one or more style sheets that you can apply to your pages.

Style sheets cannot be directly associated with a page or template. Instead, you add style sheets to a style sheet set and then associate the set with a page or template. Typically, you place sets within templates. Pages derived from the template then inherit the template’s sets.

However, you can also add a new style sheet to a page or template while in Author mode.

Note: When you create a page, it inherits any associated style sheet sets. Once you make style sheet changes, the page uses the modified version and no longer derives formatting from the inherited set. CommonSpot maintains the modified version locally. However, you can restore inheritance. For more information, see Style Sheet Sets and Style Sheet Inheritance.

You can change style sheet sets and the sheets they contain by selecting Manage – Style Sheets while in Author mode. The Style Sheet Sets dialog displays as shown below.

This dialog displays the following fields:

Enable Style Sheets – When checked, the current page uses style sheets. If this is not checked, style information is embedded within HTML tags. For example, font information is placed within HTML <font></font> tags.

Class to use on Body tag – Some page designs use a class attribute within a <body> tag. Do this by selecting Other in this dropdown and entering the class’s name..

To add a new set, click Add New Style Sheet Set to display the Add Style Sheet Set dialog.

The table at the bottom of the page has four columns:

Name - Contains the names of the style sheet sets that you can use in the current page. The Style Sheet Sets dialog snapshot shows two sets. CommonSpot tells you that one set is inherited from the template and the other is local to the page.

What style do you use for paragraphs within a bullet item?:
CommonSpot uses the first style sheet set available. Not all sets are available due to scheduling criteria. See Schedule/Personalize. After locating the first set, CommonSpot ignores all others. You can set the order of preference by clicking and dragging to a new position in this table. (Note: For IE, click on the Name or Title, instead of the entire row.)

Style Sheets - Displays the style sheets within a set. You can make changes by clicking the edit icon and selecting Style Sheets. The order of display here is the order applied by your browser.

Schedule - Shows the scheduling criteria applied to a set. Style sheets must meet scheduling criteria to become available.

Actions – Displays options for modifying the set. Click the edit icon to display the following menu:

(delete) - Removes the style sheet set from this page. You cannot delete an inherited style sheet set if it is the only one remaining. You can delete local copies. For more information, see Style Sheet Sets and Style Sheet Inheritance.

Related Links

Style Sheet Sets and Style Sheet Inheritance

You can download PDF versions of the Content Contributor's, Administrator's, and Elements Reference documents from the support section of paperthin.com (requires login).

The following guides are available locally on your CommonSpot Server:

You can also download these other guides from the support section of paperthin.com (with login):

For technical support:

http://www.paperthin.com/support/