Using styles

Every component instance has style properties and setStyle() and getStyle() (see UIObject.setStyle() and UIObject.getStyle()) methods that you can use to modify and access style properties. You can use styles to customize a component in the following ways:

• Set styles on a component instance.

  You can change color and text properties of a single component instance. This is effective in some situations, but it can be time consuming if you need to set individual properties on all the components in a document.

• Use the _global style declaration that sets styles for all components in a document.

  If you want to apply a consistent look to an entire document, you can create styles on the _global style declaration.

• Create custom style declarations and apply them to specific component instances.

  You may also want to have groups of components in a document share a style. To do this, you can create custom style declarations to apply to specific components.

• Create default class style declarations.

  You can also define a default class style declaration so that every instance of a class shares a default appearance.

Changes made to style properties are not displayed when viewing components on the Stage using the Live Preview feature. For more information, see Components in Live Preview.