If you already use WebFOCUS StyleSheets to format reports, you
can realize these additional benefits by combining them with external
Cascading Style Sheets:
Increased formatting options. Almost any formatting
that you can specify in a Cascading Style Sheet you can apply to
a report. This enables you to take advantage of formatting options
that are unavailable via native WebFOCUS StyleSheet
attributes. For example, you can use browser-based measurements
so that the person who views the report can control the size of
fonts, margins, and other elements whose size has been specified
in the CSS in terms of em, a unit of relative measurement.
You can also use CSS to control line height and letter spacing, and
in general can use CSS to exercise more control over positioning
items in a report.
Improved performance. Cascading Style Sheets enable WebFOCUS to generate more concise
HTML output. This reduces the bandwidth used by the network to return
a report to a browser, and displays the report faster.
Reduced effort. Enterprises that already use Cascading
Style Sheets can now also apply them to WebFOCUS
reports, avoiding duplication of effort to specify and maintain
formatting instructions.
Easier standards conformance. You can ensure that reports
conform to your enterprise's formatting guidelines, because now
formatting instructions for all your Web documents can be specified
in one set of Cascading Style Sheets (instead of replicating some
of them in WebFOCUS StyleSheets).