• Work with Style Sheets
  • Work with Style Sheets
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  • Styles are stored in style sheets. A style sheet is a collection of styles, images for bullets, and other details that define the look of web pages. A single style sheet can contain multiple styles, with each style identified by a unique name. You can also create separate style sheets for different projects if each project has its own set of visual standards. Whether you choose to save all of your styles in a single style sheet or multiple style sheets, it is a good idea to decide the formatting for those styles before starting a documentation project.
  • If you want all of your content to have a consistent look, you should assign a style sheet as the default style sheet for new web pages in the Options dialog box and then apply that style sheet to existing content. See
  • Web Page Defaults
  • If a team of authors are collaborating on a project, the project administrator should send out a
  • Tip:
  • content defaults
  • The Developer Library installation includes a style sheet named Standard in the System/Style Sheets folder. The Standard style sheet, which is initially assigned as the default in the Options dialog box,
  • contains a set of pre-defined styles that you can start using immediately to format text elements and objects in the Web Page Editor. You can choose to
  • edit the included styles or add your own styles to the Standard style sheet. Conversely, you can create a new style sheet and assign it as the default.
  • You create new style sheets just as you create any other document in the Library and save them to any folder in the Library.
  • New style sheets open with a single d
  • ocument body
  • language variations
  • Styles can be copied from one style sheet to another. For example, you may want to
  • copy one or more styles
  • print style or language variation
  • Delete a Style Sheet
  • If a style sheet you want to delete is stored in /System/Style Sheets folder, you are prompted with the standard System file warning that altering the structure of the system folder may impair the operation of the software. You can proceed to delete it.
  • Related Documents
  • Style sheets are included as related documents for certain transactions. When duplicating content with Paste Special, you have the option to duplicate all style sheets that are linked to the content. If the duplicate content links to the original style sheet, changes made to the style sheet affect both the original and duplicate content. Conversely, you may want to duplicate the style sheet so that you can change the formatting of your duplicate content without affecting the original source content. See
  • Copy and Paste Special (Library)
  • Copy and Paste a Document (Outline Editor)
  • If you are using images in a package for custom bulleted lists, it is important to decide where the package is stored. Packages stored in the System folders are not duplicated when you use Paste Special to duplicate content with style sheets. If the image package is stored in a Sytems folder, such as the Style Sheets folder, a duplicate action with style sheets makes a copy of the linked style sheet, but the bulleted styles that use custom images still link to the images in the original package. See
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  • Create Custom Bullets
  • Export/Import
  • Just like any other document, style sheets can be exported from and imported into the Library for backup purposes, or to send to an author using a different Library. Style sheets are automatically included when you export content with related documents. On import, you have the option to overwrite existing content. If you choose to overwrite existing content on import, the style sheet in the Library is overwritten with the version in the import file.
  • Packages with custom images that link to bulleted styles in a style sheet are also included in the export/import process. If you import with the overwrite existing content option, the imported package overwrites the current version in the Library.
  • Note:
  • It is a good idea to create a backup of your style sheet and any image packages linked to the style sheet in case they are accidentally overwritten.
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  • Multi-user Considerations
  • You can save a style sheet to any folder for which you have Modify permission. If this style sheet is to be shared by other authors, make sure that you store it in a folder that the authors have Modify or Read permission.
  • Authors can link to and publish with a style sheet for which they have List permission, but they cannot apply styles from that sheet. If you want to lock down the style sheet so that authors can apply styles but do not have the ability to modify them, assign the authors Read permission for the folder.
  • version control system
  • Check In and Check Out Documents
  • To create a new style sheet:
  • On the
  • File
  • New
  • Style Sheet
  • Style Sheet
  • Edit the style sheet to include the styles you want.
  • the style sheet.
  • Save
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