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Themes: brief discussion
Written by: Margriet Bruggeman, Nikander Bruggeman.
May 1, 2010
Themes: brief discussion
A theme is a thmx file that allows you to modify colors and fonts by applying the theme file to a specific SharePoint site. This doesn't give you the control found when you start adding custom CSS files, because those let you modify all sorts of page elements, such as font types, size, and spacing. On the other hand, it's not very invasive and easy to reuse. Themes can be used with Windows SharePoint Services 2010 sites as well as SharePoint Server 2010 site and affect the following UI elements:
- Web part chrome.
- Ribbon elements (aka, the Fluent user interface).
- Pages in the _layouts folder.
- The Site Actions button and menu.
- Shortcut menus.
- Dialog boxes.
- Highlighting for bulk editing operations.