33.6. Working with Themes
At this point, you have had the chance to work with numerous ASP.NET web controls. As you have seen, each control exposes a set of properties (many of which are inherited by System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl) that allow you to establish a given UI look and feel (background color, font size, border style, and whatnot). Of course, on a multipaged website, it is quite common for thesite as a whole to define a common look and feel for various types of widgets. For example, all TextBoxes might be configured to support a given font, all Buttons have a custom image, and all Calendars have a light blue border.
Obviously, it would be very labor intensive (and error prone) to establish the same property settings for every ...
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