ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

Chapter 6. Designing Websites with Themes

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IN THIS CHAPTER

• Creating Themes

• Adding Skins to Themes

• Adding Cascading Style Sheets to Themes

• Creating Global Themes

• Applying Themes Dynamically

• Summary

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An ASP.NET Theme enables you to apply a consistent style to the pages in your website. You can use a Theme to control the appearance of both the HTML elements and ASP.NET controls that appear in a page.

Themes are different than Master Pages. A Master Page enables you to share content across multiple pages in a website. A Theme, on the other hand, enables you to control the appearance of the content.

In this chapter, you learn how to create and apply ASP.NET Themes. First, you learn how to create Skins. A Skin enables you to modify the properties ...