Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer's Reference Guide

Using Style Sheets to Standardize Formatting
The Default Style Sheet
Style Sheets
You can combine a style sheet with the toolbar configuration procedures (see
“Defining the Toolbar” on page 166) to control the formatting of the content that
users produce.
For example, you could remove from the toolbar the menu options that let users
select font size, color and style. Then, in a style sheet, you would specify a font
size, color and style. If you make these modifications, users can enter text but not
change its size, color or style -- the style sheet has standardized those
specifications.
NOTE The bodyStyle parameter also lets you apply style sheet attributes to the content.
See “Property: bodyStyle” on page 121.
eWebEditPro provides a default style sheet, ektnormal.css, that emulates the
Word 2000 Normal.dot template. If you assign this style sheet in the configuration
data, the Word 2000 default styles are applied to the content.
To do this, set the href attribute in the features > standard > style
section of the configuration data to look like this.
Changing the Default Style Sheet
Applying Style Sheets
To change the default style sheet, place the new style sheet into the folder that
contains eWebEditPro and replace the named style sheet in the configuration
data (above in red).
For example, if your custom style sheet is named mystyles.css, the configuration
data would look like this:
You can create your own style sheet and apply it to the eWebEditPro editor.
There are three levels at which you can apply a style sheet.
• the configuration data - affects all editors that refer to it (see “The
Configuration Data” on page 248).
NOTE If your eWebEditPro pages refer to several config.xml files (for example, you
have different files for different user groups), and you want all pages to use the
same style sheet, assign the same style sheet in all of the configuration data.
• a page - affects only the editors on one page
• a single occurrence of the editor - affects only one instance of the editor
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