CSS vs Skins

vbboyd · June 6th, 2012, 10:44 PM

Can you not target ASP.NET webform objects with CSS? like doing this:

Code:

.contentArea
{
width:50px;
height:50px;
border:solid;
position:relative;
}
<asp:Panel class="contentArea" runat="server">

What I am confused about is where do skins come into play in all of this? Do they not act like CSS selectors for ASP.NET webform objects too?

Thanks once again! :-)

Imar · June 7th, 2012, 02:50 AM

You may want to read the section on Skins again as the full details are in there. In summary: Skins do generate in-line CSS or CSS class attributes that point to CSS selectors in an external or embedded CSS style sheet. By using Skins, you can control the look and feel of server controls at a global level. So, rather than applying a CssClass to each and every Panel in your site like in your example, you can apply it once to a Panel in a Skin file and it gets applied to all Panel controls in the site that are targeted by the Skin.

Hope this helps,

Imar