Cascading Style Sheets and Layouts

MicroStrategy Web designed with a new CSS infrastructure to conform to the latest cascading style sheets standards, as well as to improve performance by reducing the amount of HTML necessary to download to the client.

Each MicroStrategy Web page uses several cascading style sheet (CSS) files. These CSS files are referenced in a page's HTML by <link> tags. Typically, the <link> tags can be found in the <head> page section of the HTML.

To work with CSS files in MicroStrategy Web, see Customizing CSS files in MicroStrategy Web. This section describes the three new types of CSS files in MicroStrategy Web: the Application-wide CSS, the Page-specific CSS, and the Browser-specific CSS. It describes the 'links' page-section in MicroStrategy Web and provides a procedure for how to best customize a CSS file.

Layout definitions is a flexible and a code-free approach to modify the arrangement and content of the output of a transform by allowing you to modify an XML file that includes both regular HTML elements and also elements representing content from the transform. This XML file is called a layout definition file. Learn about how to use Layout definitions in the Data presentation, styles, and layout definitions section of the MSDL.