Applying and Creating Styles

Applying and Creating Styles

A style is a collection of formatting settings saved with a Web site or template that you can apply to text, graphics, and tables at any time. If you modify a style, you make the change once, but all text tagged with that style changes to reflect the new format. FrontPage provides you with Built-In Styles, or you can create your own User-Defined Styles. Both built-in and user-defined styles are available from the same style list while you edit a page. When you create a user-defined style, you can also create an embedded Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), which is style information that is applied to the open Web page.

Apply a Style to Text

Click the View menu, click Page, and then open the Web page you want to use.

Select the text you want to change into a heading or subheading.

Click the Style list arrow on the Formatting toolbar.

Click a style (such as Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) from the drop-down list.

See Also See "Creating a Cascading Style Sheet" on page 98 for information on creating an external cascading style sheet.

Create a Style and Embedded Cascading Style Sheet

Click the View menu, click Page, and then open the Web page you want to use.

Click the Format menu' and then click Style.

Click New.

Type a name for the style.

Click the Style Type list arrow, and then click Paragraph to include the selected text's line spacing and margins in the style, or click Character to include only formatting, such as font, size, and bold, in the style.

Click Format, click a formatting command to include additional formatting to the style, and then click OK.

Click OK, and then click OK again.

Did You Know? You can modify a style. Open the Web page or .css file with the style you want to change, click the Format menu' click Style, click the List list arrow, click User-Defined Styles, select the style, click Modify, make changes to the style, click OK, and then click OK again.