September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 38m
English
book
Creating Applications with Mozilla
by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy
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Chapter 4. CSS in Mozilla Applications
This chapter describes how Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to create the look and feel of a Mozilla application's interface. Although XUL has a central role in creating a structure for an application's interface, defining widgets and their functionality, and creating the basic application code, it is CSS that creates the visible portion of an application. XUL and CSS often work so closely together that they seem inseparable, but XUL is generally responsible for the structure of an application's interface and CSS is responsible for the application's presentation. As described in the next sections, it is not until an XPFE application has been “skinned,” or styled with stylesheets, that it has a usable interface.
The first few sections in this chapter provide basic information about using CSS and some examples of how the Mozilla interface is created. They include reference material you can refer back to as you learn more. Starting with the “Creating New Skins” section, you can dive in, have some fun with CSS, and begin to create your own skins. The xFly package example created earlier in the book shows how to add custom styles to the XUL files you created in Chapters Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.
4.1. Interface Basics
Before describing the practice of using CSS, let's get some basic theory out of the way. When we talk about the interface of an application, we mean all of the parts of the application that are displayed and allow the user to interact. ...
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