About Styles and Stylesheets

You can take advantage of cascading stylesheets (CSS files) and the rules around them to control the look of your output in one place. This helps to keep the content separate from its presentation, which is very important when it comes to single-sourcing. CSS isn’t a MadCap Software idea. It’s an international standard for formatting web content, and it was developed by a group called the World Wide Web Consortium (or W3C). You can learn all about the W3C at w3.org.

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The heading above is using the h1 style (which is short for a first-level heading). Properties have been assigned to this style to affect its look (such as the font type and its size). We can apply this style to any block type of content (e.g., headings or paragraphs). If we were to change the color to purple in the style, every heading or paragraph that uses that style would change to purple immediately.

For more information about working with styles, see the Flare online Help.