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About XML skinnable forms 711
ColdFusion MX XSL skins
ColdFusion MX provides the following XSLT skins:
basic
basiccss
basiccss_top
beige
blue
bluegray
default
lightgray
red
silver
The XSLT skin files are located in the cf_webroot\CFIDE\scripts\xsl directory, and the CSS files
that they use for style definitions are located in the cf_webroot\CFIDE\scripts\css directory.
The default skin and the basic skin format forms identically. ColdFusion uses the default skin if
you do not specify a
skin attribute in the cfform tag. The default and basic skins are simple skins
that use tables for arranging the form contents. The basic skin uses
div and span tags to arrange
the elements. The skins with names of colors are similar to the basic skin, but make more use of
color.
Example: a simple skinnable form
The following figure shows a simple XML skinnable form that uses the default skin to format the
output:
Later sections in this chapter use this form in their examples and description.