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Altova StyleVision® 2010 includes support for CSS styles to help you visually design advanced Web pages based on XML, XBRL, and database source data.

CSS Styles

StyleVision includes full support for CSS (Cascading Stylesheets), a stylesheet language for adding style and presentation to HTML documents. CSS provides several advantages, including precise visual styling capabilities, cross-browser compatibility, the ability to make changes that affect multiple elements in a single step, and much more.

StyleVision provides built-in CSS style rules, which can be applied globally or to individual elements. You may also import external CSS documents to leverage previous work. Global and imported CSS rules are available in the StyleVision Style Repository window, where you can edit style values by typing them in directly or selecting them from drop-down menus and entry helper dialog boxes.

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When styles are defined locally, the style rules are applied directly to the component you have selected in your design. These local rules have precedence over both global style rules and style rules in external CSS stylesheets that apply to that component.

The Styles entry helper window makes it easy to define local style rules by either entering values directly or selecting them from drop-down menus and entry helper dialogs. Simply select the component you wish to style on the design pane or from the Design Tree window, and the Style window will display the available options for that element as well as its related component types. For instance, if an element you select is part of a table, the table and its related components will be listed under the selected element. This way, you can define styling for a single component or for all instances of that type of component in one view.

See how CSS enhances visual stylesheet design in StyleVision® 2010 to help you easily create advanced, eye-catching Web pages for your XML and database data. Download a free 30-day trial of StyleVision.