Skins for Server Controls

As the name suggests, skins serve as outer covers of controls. Most out-of-the box ASP.NET server controls support skins. Nevertheless, it's always a good idea to check if the control you plan to work with can be skinned. To do so, look for the SkinID property. If the control has a SkinID property, you can apply a skin to it.

There are two types of skins:

• Default skins, which are applied to all controls that do not have a corresponding skin defined in the SkinID. For example, if you define a default skin for a TextBox control, all TextBox controls on pages that adopt the theme will follow the styles defined in the default skin.

• Name-controlled skins, which target only controls that share the same SkinID. For instance, you may have a skin for a TextBox defined. Suppose the skin has the SkinID of MyTextBox. Only TextBox controls that have a matching SkinID of MyTextBox will have the skin applied.

Creating a Default Skin

Consider the case of the SiteMapPath control...