Chapter 19. Using ASP.NET Themes and Skins

IN THIS CHAPTER

Introduction to ASP.NET Themes

Creating a Theme

Applying a Theme

Default Skins and Named Skins

Using a Theme with CSS Files

Checkpoint

Introduction to ASP.NET Themes

At this point in this book, you’ve learned two ways to create a consistent appearance for your website: master pages and CSS. In this chapter, we’re going to look at yet another method of creating a website with a consistent appearance with ASP.NET themes.

ASP.NET themes were introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and provide a means of easily controlling the appearance of ASP.NET pages. You can apply a theme to a page or to an entire web application. After a theme is applied to a site, ASP.NET takes care of formatting the page based ...

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