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ADF 11g Skinning: Three ways to change look and feel

On the JDeveloper ADF forum there are many questions on how to change the look and feel of components. In this post I'll explain three ways to do that. Setting skin Selector property For this we need to define a custom skin. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <skins xmlns="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/skin"> <skin> <id>mySkin.desktop</id> <family>MySkin</family> <extends>blafplus-rich.desktop</extends> <render-kit-id>org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop</render-kit-id> <style-sheet-name>skins/MySkin.css</style-sheet-name> </skin> </skins> In the style sheet we will add an entry that will hide the columnheaders. af|column::column-header-cell{display: none;} This entry in the styleSheet will apply to ALL columns in your application. Using and appending styleClasses Now we create a StyleClass that is exactly the same as the sty