Quick Tip: Customising GoLive's Default External CSS Document

Got a lot of CSS that you use almost invariably? Set body, paragraph and table cell font sizes to 12 pixels nine times out of ten? Wouldn't it be helpful if these were already set in the default GoLive external style sheet which opens when you use File > New Special > Cascading Style Sheet (or the New > Cascading Style Sheet contextual menu item)? We can do that.


Step 1:
In GoLive, open the simple.css file which you will find in the Settings/DocumentStore/examples folder under the GoLive install folder.


Open the CSS Editor

Step 2:
Edit the simple.css document as you would any other stylesheet, adding the selectors and rule definitions you want in the default document.


Create a Rule

Step 3:
Save the file. Choose File > New Special > Cascading Style Sheet. You've got a customised start up external CSS document. All I did for this example was add a unordered list element to the predefined selectors in the document.

Its that "simple".


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