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General Styles
Styles include headlines, subheads, paragraph text, etc. Each page attribute can be configured in Styles to fit your design.
The General Styles stylesheet contains the most broadly applicable styles in your MadeDaily website. Styles set, for example, for Headline 1 or Paragraph in general styles will apply to everywhere headline 1s or paragraphs are used on your site, including text content that you create, product listing, stories, etc.
Styling for different device types
You can also make a style look different at each website breakpoint. For example, Headline 1 can be styled one way for desktop and differently for mobile or tablet.
Editing a Style
Select the item you would like to style from the list.
To change a style click edit. You can edit the Background, Text, Padding, Margins, Borders, Corners, Box Shadow, Text Shadow, and more.
Once you are finished, click Save Changes.
We recommend that you keep changes in General Styles to a minimum. Start with setting a text size or basic color and see how that looks first. If you need to make additional style changes make those changes in the appropriate style sheet.
Publishing a Style Sheet
After you edit a style, publish your stylesheet to see the changes reflected. To publish the Style Sheet, click the Publish Stylesheet button in the top right corner.
For changing the look of the Navigation use Navigation Styles. For design components that use text and use the text editor, use Text Editor Styles. For buttons & Alerts use buttons and alerts and so on.
Text Editor Styles
When you add text content to a page, you may want to control the size, color, and style of the typeface. The text editor has a default set of styles that can be modified to reflect your design. To edit your text, click the paintbrush icon. When finished, click Save Changes.
Other Styles
Follow the same steps listed above for other style types such as navigation and button styles.
Advanced View
When editing a component, there is an advanced view. This allows you to write custom css and attach it to the component. This allows more a lot more flexibilty when designing your site.
You can also enter the advanced with on any stylesheet by clicking "Code View". This allows you to edit mulituple items very quickly.
Stylesheet Themes
To create a new theme for your stylesheet, click the duplicate icon next to the default stylesheet.
This will copy over the existing styles, and namespaces to allow for an easy alterative stylesheet.
When you drag in a component, there will now be an option to select that new theme instead of the default. Simply select the theme from the Style Theme dropdown.
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