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Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar

Reputation: 12874

Advantage of Using Theme & Skin File over CSS in asp.Net

I am developing a website in ASP.Net.. Is it good to develop the Styles using Themes with SkinFile or CSS as we use in HTML

Which is best?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2118

Answers (3)

Rafs
Rafs

Reputation: 812

With regard to your question, if all what you need is styling, then I would recommend the CSS way, especially because of its performance benefits, since it can be cached and does not cause any overhead in the Server.

Upvotes: 0

Ashwini Verma
Ashwini Verma

Reputation: 7525

Themes vs. Cascading Style Sheets

Themes are similar to cascading style sheets in that both themes and style sheets define a set of common attributes that can be applied to any page. However, themes differ from style sheets in the following ways:

*  Themes can define many properties of a control or page, not just style properties. For example, using themes, you can specify the graphics for a TreeView control, the template layout of a GridView control, and so on.
*  Themes can include graphics.
*  Themes do not cascade the way style sheets do. By default, any property values defined in a theme referenced by a page's Theme property override the property values declaratively set on a control, unless you explicitly apply the theme using the StyleSheetTheme property. For more information, see the Theme Settings Precedence section above.
*  Only one theme can be applied to each page. You cannot apply multiple themes to a page, unlike style sheets where multiple style sheets can be applied.

Please go to msdn for more detail:

Upvotes: 1

Ropstah
Ropstah

Reputation: 17804

ASP.NET Controls can have properties set using skin files. For instance you can define that every button on your site needs the following properties:

<asp:Button runat="server" 
  BackColor="Red" 
  ForeColor="White" 
  Font-Name="Arial" 
  Font-Size="9px" />

It is a way to generalize styling for your website but nothing that can't be done using CSS alone.

Upvotes: 0

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