Content Style

Style and Content Style properties can be used to fine-tune your portal's look and feel at the component level:

• Style properties apply to the ShowDetailFrame container of the component instance, overriding any styles specified for the component through the component's parent container, the page, and the application.

• Content Style properties apply to the content within the ShowDetailFrame container of the component instance, overriding any styles specified for Style properties, the page, and the application.

For example, in a Movable Box component, Style settings control the look and feel of the Movable Box; Content Style settings control the look and feel of the components contained within the Movable Box. This look and feel may, in turn, be overridden by the Style settings set on those individual components.

Note, however, that Content Style properties set for a container, such as a Movable Box, may not take effect if the component inside the container overrides the container Content Style properties by a means other than the component's own Content Style properties. For example, the background color set for a Movable Box that contains a task flow may not take effect if, at design time, instead of being set to inherit from the container, the task flow background color was set with a hard-coded value.

Additionally, the Style and Content Style settings may or may not be exposed depending on whether or not the component elements (such as the skin) support modifications to these settings. Thus, while you can set Style and Content Style properties for a component, these settings may not take effect due to other settings that apply to the component.

For descriptions of the properties you can set, see Style and Content Style Properties.