Changing skins
Use the Properties views to change the skin for an individual portlet, or for several portlets within a page or label.
For stylistic or content organization purposes, you may want to change the skins that outline the portlet applications within your pages. Before changing a skin, you should understand which portlets will inherit the skin that you specify.
The best practice for changing skin settings is to use the Properties view that appears below the Portal Designer. The hierarchy of how skin changes apply within the portal application is as follows:
Level Inherits What Settings? Page Items Page items reside at the bottom of the hierarchy, and include rows, columns, and portlets. With regard to skins, you will only deal with portlets.
Changing a skin setting within the portlet Properties view will change the skin only for the portlet you have selected in the Portal Configuration.
Label You can specify the theme's default skin from the skins allowed for the theme. Changing a default skin setting within the theme Properties view will change the skin for all portlets on all pages where this theme is currently in effect.
For more information on parent/child relationships between labels and pages, refer to Defining layouts.
Portal This is the top level of the hierarchy. You can specify the default skin for the portal project in the skin Properties view. Likewise, you can specify the portal project's default theme in the theme Properties view.
If the top label or page does not have a theme specified, the default theme for the portal project applies. If the default theme has no allowed skin, the default skin of the theme applies.
To change skins using the Properties view:
- Within the Portal Designer, click on a portlet to activate its Properties view. The corresponding Properties view will appear in a window below the Portal Designer.
- In the Properties view, use the Skin drop-down menu to select a new skin.
Related tasks
Defining layouts
Creating new skins
Adding portlets to portal pages