5.2 How WebMaker supports CSS

When you make a web, you have the choice of generating a style sheet or not generating it. If you choose to generate a style sheet, these things happen:

• WebMaker creates a style sheet in a .css file that contains style commands that mimic the formatting in the FrameMaker document. In the style sheet, each paragraph tag and character tag has an entry that specifies its formatting. If you convert a book file, one .css file is created for the book. The name of the .css file is the same as the name of the HTML files, but with the .css extension. Thus, if you convert a document named guide and do not specify a different prefix, WebMaker creates HTML files named guide-1.html and so on, and a style sheet named guide.css.
• Each HTML file references the .css file.
• The HTML elements have a class attribute. By default, the class name is the same as the name of the FrameMaker tag.

If you do not generate a style sheet, no .css file is created, the HTML files do not reference any .css file, and the HTML elements do not have a class attribute. The browser will control the formatting of the HTML files.