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If you know about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), you're going to love this form. It opens you to the exciting world of style sheets. It lets you create unlimited number of CSS classes to be used to display events on your calendar.

Create/Edit CSS classes

You need some knowledge of CSS to manipulate CSS classes. To create or edit CSS class, click on the Font Styles link on the upper left corner of this form. The CSS editor will popup. The CSS editor consists of sections as shown in the following figure.


The CSS editor

Each CSS class consists of a class name (the lable field on the CSS editor) and a set of properties (the properties field on the editor). If you are an experienced CSS user, you can just enter the CSS properties, in the correct syntax, in the property field. For example, the following define a class that display text in red using a large italic arial font, underlined.

font-family:arial;
font-size:x-large;
font-weight:700;
text-decoration:underline;
font-style:italic;
color:red;
If you're not a CSS guru, a CSS dialogue is also provided for your convenience. To access it, click on the Edit link on the CSS editor. The CSS dialogue looks like the following.


The CSS dialogue

The CSS dialogue only lets you change the few commonly used font properties, like face, weight and decoration. You'll need to learn about CSS to use the more advanced CSS properties.

The classes you create with the CSS editor are a toplevel classes not associated with any HTML tags. They will be included in the HTML page WebCcal generates in the form of

.class_name { css_properties;}

They are referenced by CLASS="class_name" in the relevent HTML tags within the calendar page.



Set Default CSS Styles

Once you have created some CSS classess, you can assign a default style for each of the appointment, todo, meeting and special event types. Just as default colors, the default style will be used to fill in the font-style field on event editors for new events, and the class name is copied as an event attribute to the event database when new events are entered.

The actual CSS properties are not stored in the the event database, the style sheet are generated dynamically. As a result, modifying an exisiting CSS property will affect all exisiting events that uses the style in question.








Last updated: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:50:18 CST
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