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Re: html cosmetics
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: "G.L. Grobe" <gary at grobe dot net>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:55:39 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: html cosmetics
- References: <008201c17ecb$e62c5350$0200a8c0@trinity>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:04:34PM -0600, G.L. Grobe wrote:
> I've finally got the hang of building some documentation, took awhile, but
> now another question ...
>
> Anyone have any references of where I may be able to look about how to
> properly add background colors, shade in those example text areas, font
> sizes, etc.. cosmetic things.
>
> Any help much appreciated!
This is most easily done by associating a CSS stylesheet
with the HTML output. You can do that with the
'html.stylesheet' parameter. If you look in the generated
HTML output, you'll see each element is in a <div> with its
name, which makes writing css stylesheets that style
specific elements easy.
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