1. Building Sites with Oracle Content Management
  2. Developing for Sites
  3. Develop Components
  4. How to Style Built-In Components

How to Style Built-In Components

Create your own look and feel to style built-in components in Oracle Content Management by overriding and extending built-in styles.

Built-in components get their visual styling from two places:

  • comp.css, a built-in CSS file that specifies the base look of each component

  • design.css, a CSS file that is part of the theme that your site is using

In the design.css file, you can override and extend the built-in comp.css styles to create your own look and feel. In a theme, the design.css file is in the designs/default directory.

The following topics describe classes in the comp.css file are common to all built-in components and provide an overview of defining a theme: