SUNScholar/XMLUI Theme/M1/Styling

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Modify site CSS styles

Find a good web 2.0 developer to help you with this, this is the core of the repository website styling !!

Type the following to access the source folder. Modify the css files to suit yourself.

cd /home/dspace/source/dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/webapp/themes/Mytheme/lib/css

To do quick temporary changes, you can modify the style by accessing files in the live folder.

/home/dspace/webapps/xmlui/themes/Mytheme/lib/css

Make sure to copy the files back to the source folder to make the changes permanent.

CSS and HTML help links

• http://learnlayout.com
• http://www.csstutorial.net
• http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm
• http://htmldog.com
• http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css
• http://www.fontsquirrel.com
• http://validator.w3.org
• http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator

CSS styling of DSpace XMLUI, Tips and Tricks

Firefox

Download and install the latest version of Firefox from:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Determining current style elements used

Right-click on any part of the website to view the CSS element detail. You can change things in real time per item, in the right hand pane, to see what it will look like.

See screenshots below.