Customizing the default appearance

Now that we are clear about what parts can be customized with CSS, let's make an attempt to use it in practice. Firstly, we will need the code from the example in the previous chapter. If you look at the code appendix, you will see some files starting with ch02_css. The html and js files are exactly the same as we used in the last chapter. In this example, all the magic will take place in the css file.

Note

If you take a look at the html file, you can see our custom css file is declared after the official css file. This was done due to the phenomenon called CSS specificity. If two CSS file declarations are made to the same element with the same specificity, the order of the declarations will define the styling. As we have declared our custom css file after the official one, it will overwrite the default styling.

Identifying the classes

Open up the first example, called ch02_css.html, in your browser. You can see the already modified look of the previous...