Introduction

The Fluid Skinning System - FSS is a group of CSS files with a specially designed modular structure and class-specific format. It is meant to work well as both a standalone CSS foundation for your site and our components, and as the CSS engine of the (Floe) UI Options (2008-2009) component.

This page describes the FSS classnames and what they do, when to use them, and how to extend them. This page is intended as a reference only. See Fluid Skinning System - FSS for an overview of the FSS and how to use it, and see the examples and walkthroughs for specific examples of the various classes in use.

Class Names By Function

Layout

File: fss-layout.css : Basic layout structures.
This section requires an understanding of inheritance.

Container Widths

These are general classes that will affect the width of whatever element they are applied to. They can be used in conjunction with the column container classes (described below) to control the width of the column container.

Columns

The classes can be used to compose multiple <div> s into adjacent columns. For examples of common column layouts, see the columns examples pages.

Equal width columns

Mixed width columns

These styles can be used to create a two or more column layout with at least one fixed-width column on the left and a flexible width column on the right.

Tabs

These classes can be used to style a list into a tab layout. The markup for the tabs must be a list, and the list items must have anchors. The anchors act as the tabs.

Menu

These classes can be used to style a list into a vertical navigation menu. The markup for the tabs must be a list, and the list items must have anchors.

Grid

These classes can be used to create a grid layour for list items and images. The default grid item height is 150px. The markup must be a list. List items could include <img> and/or captions.

Icons

This class can be used to style small icons.

Buttons

These classes can be used to style graphics to appear as buttons.

Widget Template

These classes can be used to style small collections of elements that function together as a single widget in a typical layout.

Forms

These classes can be used to lay out form controls and their labels. To use the form layout class names, the markup pattern looks like this (example uses centered alignment):

  <ul class="fl-controls-centered">
      <li>
          <labelElement class="fl-label">Label Text</labelElement>
          <inputControl>
      </li>
  </ul>

Progressive Enhancement

These classes can be used to show or hide elements based on whether or not JavaScript is present.

Hiding Content

These classes can be used to show or hide elements.

Miscellaneous Layout Modifiers

Themes new in v1.1

These themes define various colour schemes that will be applied to all elements inside the identified container.

Files: fss-themes-coal.css, fss-themes-slate.css, fss-themes-mist.css, fss-themes-hc.css, fss-themes-hci.css, fss-themes-yellowBlack.css, fss-themes-blackYellow.css

Text

File: fss-text.css : Text manipulation

Deprecated class names