A style defines the appearance of various text elements on your web pages, such as headings and body text. When you apply a style to a page, you apply the whole set of text formatting commands in one operation. By defining styles and applying them to pages in your web, you ensure consistency of appearance throughout those pages. If you decide to change a style, you need only to make a change to the applied style and the change will be reflected in all of the pages to which that style is applied.
A base style is automatically applied to all pages in the site. Once a page has been added to the site, you can:
When you use styles, you can change all text formatted with the style just by redefining the style. For example, if your headings are 14 point Arial and bold, and you later decide you want your headings to be 16 point Arial, bold, and Italicised, you don't have to reformat every instance of the heading. Just change the properties of that style. You can also modify any text style and save it with a unique name to create your own custom style.
You can preview a style before applying it by selecting it from the list of available themes. PowerWebBuilder includes four predefined styles from which to choose.
There are four ways to apply a style to a page in PowerWebBuilder:
Apply a style to an individual page when you want to apply a style other than the currently applied style.
Replace the applied style when you want to apply a new style to one or more pages that have already been assigned the same style and you want to apply the new style across the same pages in your site.
Replace all assigned styles with the base style when you want to replace the style assigned to all pages with a single style.
Apply a different style to all pages using the base style.