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Determining the order in which style sheets are read
For each section, the style sheets are applied in a certain order. The styles in each following
style sheet add up to the styles found in previously read style sheets. When style sheets have a
conflicting rule for the same element, class or ID, the last style sheet ‘wins’ and overrides the
rule found in the previous style sheet.
The order in which style sheets are applied, can be changed per section:
1.
On the Resources pane, expand the Contexts folder, expand the folder of the
corresponding context and then right-click the template.
2.
Click the tab Includes.
3.
Click a CSS file and use the Up and Down buttons to change the order in which the style
sheets are read.
4.
Note: Moving a style sheet up in the list gives it less weight, because style sheets read
later will override previous ones in case of conflicting rules.
Styling text and paragraphs
There are numerous ways to format text in a template. You can apply a certain font, make it
bold, center the text, color it, etc.
This topic explains how to apply local formatting to text. It is recommended though, to format
text using style sheets; see "Styling and formatting" on page 398 and "Styling templates with
CSS files" on page 399.
Formatting text and paragraphs locally
An intuitive way of formatting text locally is by using the toolbar buttons: select some text, or an
element that contains text (see: "Selecting an element" on page 227) and click one of the
toolbar buttons to make it bold, center it, create a numbered or bulleted list, etc.
To quickly change a paragraph into a Heading, Address or Pre element, select the paragraph
(see: "Selecting an element" on page 227) and on the Format menu, select the appropriate
element.
More local formatting options are available in the Formatting dialogs; see below.
Formatting text
To open the Text Formatting dialog, select some text and then select Format > Text. In the Text
Formatting dialog you can set:
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