Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Chapter 18. Doing More with Styles and ODS

There is more that you can do with ODS and styles. You might want to define a custom style template and link it to a custom table definition for specific report purposes. Or you might need to design a custom style template for conformance with regulatory agency requirements. You might have a corporate standard to use only CSS style sheets for output files.

In some instances, you would design a custom style template using style template inheritance. Before SAS 9.2, it was harder to build an original style template, because you had to trace style element inheritance to determine the style elements that were going to be called by your procedure.

Beginning in SAS 9.2, there is an implicit parent style template ...