Skins are used to define color, font, and borders for various components in Jetspeed. The skin definition is used in the Template files used to general the HTML sent to the user's browser.

Skin file are located in <jetspeed_home>/WEB-INF/conf/

File Name	Description
skins.xreg	Skin definitions that are part of the Jetspeed distribution. Since this is part of the distribution, modifications and additions are discouraged. If a skin is not used, then it should be hidden.
local-skins.xreg	Installation specific skin definitions should be places in this file. This file is not part the the Jetspeed distribution. To create it, just skins.xreg and remove all of the skin entries.

Parameter	Description
text-color	Color of normal text It is recommended that the text color be set using in styles used by the skin.
background-color	Color of background. It is recommended that the background color be set in the styles used by the skin.
title-text-color	Color of text used in titles It is recommended that the text color be set in the style defined by title-style-class.
title-background-color	Background color of titles. It is recommended that the background color be set in the styles used by the skin.
title-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, and background-color for title Only set font and color properties.
highlight-text-color	Color of text used in selected titles It is recommended that the text color be set in the style defined by highlight-title-style-class.
highlight-background-color	Background color of selected titles. It is recommended that the background color be set in the style defined by highlight-title-style-class.
highlight-title-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, and background-color for selected title. Only set font and color properties.
controller-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, background-color, and border used by controllers.
portlet-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, background-color, and border used by portlet controls.
content-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, background-color, and border used to display portlet content.
tab-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, background-color, and border used to display tabs.
tab-title-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, and background-color used to display tab titles. Only set font and color properties.
tab-content-style-class	Style that defines text color, font, background-color, and border used to display tab content.

Parameter Usage Summary in Velocity templates

• Reuse styles, as defined in the stylesheet, as often as practical. This will help keep the size of the stylesheet small.
• Set only *-style-class parameter in the skin definition. This will keep the generated HTML simpler without the losing functionality.