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Create styles for Process Portal spaces

You can customize styles and use them to change the color and appearance of a space.

You must be an administrator, and be able to restart the server.

You must have access rights to the WebDAV folder to design and customize space styles.

You might need a web development tool, such as Mozilla Firebug, to edit cascading style sheet (CSS) files.

A style uses images to provide the background and overall color. A style also uses a CSS file to identify these images and additional color specifications. To minimize the work involved in creating a style, review the existing styles, copy the one that is closest to the style to create, and customize that copy.

• Copying existing styles for Process Portal spaces
  Find a folder that contains a style that closely matches the style to create, and then copy it.
• Customize styles for Process Portal spaces
  After you create a copy of an existing style, you can customize the copy by specifying details such as name, location, and preview image.
• Customize dialog boxes for Process Portal spaces
  

  You can customize the appearance of dialog boxes in a space by adding rules to the cascading style sheet (CSS) file of your custom style.

• Customize menus for Process Portal spaces
  Spaces include menus that present users with options. These menus are based on a standard dijitMenu implementation that is provided by the Dojo toolkit. You can customize the appearance of these menus by modifying rules in the cascading style sheet (CSS) file of your custom style.
• Customize the footer for a Process Portal space
  

  You can customize the footer that is usually found at the bottom of every page in a space. By default, the footer contains an IBM logo.

• Customize tab navigation for Process Portal spaces
  

  You can customize tabs, displayed at the top of the content area and below the banner, used for page navigation.

• Customize widget toolbars for Process Portal spaces
  The widget toolbar is the part of a widget that contains the title, the context menu icon (down arrow), and the minimize and maximize icons. You can customize widget toolbars to change the icon images used in your spaces.
• Uploading custom styles for Process Portal spaces
  To make a customized style available for use in a space, upload it so that users can see it in a list of styles.

Create and customizing styles for Process Portal spaces

Related tasks:
Customize the login page
Setting the home space for Process Portal spaces