Style property categories

The structure of the categories is defined in the table.

The structure of the categories is defined in the table.

See the Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Revision 1 (CSS2.1) Specification for further details of CSS style properties.

Name Purpose
Background properties

Specifies the background of an element; colors and images. You can also position the background, repeat it, and declare whether it should be fixed or scrolled.

Border properties

Specifies the width, color, and style of the border area of a box and the spacing between adjacent table cell borders.

Border image properties

The border image style properties allow page authors to use images instead of the border styles. Refer to the topic entitled Border images for more information.

Box properties

Box style properties that set box and table values such as display, visibility, margins and padding.

Flexible box properties

Style properties used for formatting of flexible boxes. Refer to the topic entitled ui:flexible-box for details.

Reflection properties

Properties used to control reflections. A reflection is a flipped and shifted copy of an object with its own overlying mask. Refer to the topic entitled Reflections for more information.

Chart properties

Chart style properties set values for chart adornment and labels, colors, percentage size, and axis angles.

Content properties

Defines generated content values.

Font properties

Sets a system font and defines the font family or font family set, and font style settings such as size, color, weight, stretch, and the variant.

Form properties

Specifies the appearance and positioning of input and other objects used in forms.

Format properties

Defines general visual format rules and thematic information on the user interface elements.

Image properties

Specifies image properties.

Layout properties

Controls several layout properties of different objects, including the display of fragments and links.

List properties

Defines basic visual formatting of lists and the list item markers, including the positioning, the appearance, and any image file for the marker.

Menu properties

Specifies the style, order, orientation, and use of text an images of menus and menuitems.

Separator properties

If you specify that menus are oriented horizontally, MCS applies the separator properties between groups of menuitems.

Position properties

Defines a layout positioning scheme of generated boxes. These affect the positioning properties of any floating elements.

Text properties

Specifies the visual presentation of characters, spaces, words, and paragraphs.

Effects properties

Defines styles used to control transition effects.

Transformation properties

Transformations modify elements in a two- or three-dimensional space. Elements can be scaled, rotated, translated and skewed. Refer to the topic entitled 2D and 3D transformations for more information.

Additional style properties

The style properties that are not available as the Design Wizard controls.

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