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BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.6.04
Cascading style sheets in AR System
56 BMC Remedy Mid Tier Guide
Cascading style sheets (CSS) define the styles of AR System elements in browsers.
CSS provides a means for web authors to separate the appearance of web pages
from their content. With CSS, you can create a consistent look across web pages by
referencing the same CSS file in all of the pages. CSS also allows you to control
display attributes that you cannot set using BMC Remedy Developer Studio. For
example, BMC Remedy Developer Studio does not offer a way to change the
background color of a character field, but CSS does.
Overview of CSS rules
CSS rule syntax
Specificity
This section assumes that you are familiar with HTML and CSS. Keep in mind that
not all attributes work with every browser. Before using a CSS attribute, verify that
it works for your browser.
TIP
To change the appearance of a component (such as a panel, a character fields or a
table) on a view of an AR System form, see the Form and Application Objects
Guide, “Applying skins to form views” on page 426.
Each CSS rule consists of a selector, followed by properties and values enclosed in
braces:
selector {property: value; property: value;}
Each property/value pair is separated by a semicolon.
A selector can be an HTML tag (such as body, p, or td), a unique class, such as
btn3d, an ID such as #toolbar, or a combination of these and other selector types.
You can combine selectors to apply styles to an element. For example, the
following three selectors are increasingly specific:
.note
a.note (more specific)
a.note.div (more specific)
a.note[name=bentley] div (most specific)
In AR System, each element’s style is controlled by CSS rules, which are defined in
one or more CSS files. The system CSS files are located under the Resources
directory of the BMC Remedy Mid Tier.