Creating new styles in external style sheets

You can create new styles and add them to your style sheets (.CSS files). Styles in style sheets are available to all topics that are linked to the style sheet. You can create any number of styles to suit your design needs. In addition, all HTML style sheets include a variety of default styles (Normal, Heading 1, etc.) that you can customize.

Tip: Before you create styles, create the style sheet.

Example:

Notes:

  • Any changes you make to an external style sheet are incorporated into every topic attached to the style sheet. Once your changes have been saved, they become part of the style sheet. You cannot undo applied changes to an external style sheet.

  • Netscape Navigator cannot correctly interpret paragraph level embedded styles and style sheet styles when they are applied to paragraphs containing form elements. If you want to apply a paragraph style to a paragraph containing a form element, use inline styles (select the form element and use the Formatting toolbar) or character level styles.