Linking to an external style sheet
Instead of, or in addition to, creating an style sheet in a particular document, you can create a link in the document to an external style sheet file. When you do this, all the styles in the external style sheet become available to use in the document, just as if they were defined internally. By linking several documents to the same external style sheet, you can control the styles used in them by editing just the style sheet file.
It is possible to create links to multiple external style sheets in the same document, if necessary.
An external style sheet file is a plain text document with a .css file name extension. You can create an external style sheet in a text editor such as Notepad, or you can save an internal style sheet that you have created as an external file.
To link to an external style sheet
- On the Home menu, go to Style, and then click Link External Style.
- Click
(Add External File).
- Find and select the desired external style sheet (it must have a .css extension) and then click Open.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 if you want to link to additional style sheet files, and then click OK.
If you link to an external style sheet, make sure to include the style sheet file when you publishPublishing is the process of uploading Web documents and resource files to a Web server so that others can view them. the document to the Web. If your document is part of a local siteA collection of documents and resource files on the local file system that are managed by Namo WebEditor as one whole. When a local site is published to the Web, the copy on the Web server is called the “remote site”., Namo WebEditor takes care of this for you.
To remove an external style sheet link
- On the Home menu, go to Style, and then click Link External Style.
- In the Linked style sheets list box, select an external style sheet.
- Click
(Remove) and then click OK.
Related topics
Saving an internal style sheet as an external style sheet
Editing an external style sheet
Working with multiple style sheets