CHAPTER 16Building Custom Look and Feel with Cascading Style Sheets and Skinning

Skinning is artwork. You cannot teach good taste, but you can demonstrate the techniques to implement some.

A user’s first experience when working with web applications is the look and feel of the user interface (UI). No matter how well an application is developed, or how many Java EE design patterns and object-oriented coding principles are built in, if the UI does not impress the users, they won’t like the application as a whole.

In traditional web application development, the UI look and feel is implemented through Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a simple ASCII-based technique used to apply visual style definitions, such as sizing, colors, or spacing, to the generated ...

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