Skinning essentials
ADF 11gR2 provides a skinning framework to allow the developer to change the look and feel of the page easily and consistently. With the introduction of the skin editor in JDeveloper Release 2, the skinning experience with ADF web application development is taken to a different level.
Skinning is an important task in any web application because styling makes the application presentable and will attract user traffic. CSS customizes the appearance of the web application and allows a consistent look and feel throughout the website.
What is a skin?
A skin is a stylesheet based on a CSS 3.0 standard defined for the entire application. The skin will provide a visual change in the appearance of the application at runtime.
Some of the advantages of skinning are as follows:
Styling the application
Customizing the web components
Changing the runtime labels
In ADF 11gR2, we have a skinning editor IDE that is used to skin and style the application visually. The skin editor is used to create...
