The inheritance tab displays the parent styles for the current skin.

• Skin rules

  Use the skin to specify the presentation of your content. You can style all presentation elements of your interface in the skin, including typography, borders, backgrounds, layouts, and the placement and alignment of elements.

• Skin rules - Completing the Create or Save As form

  Create a skin or update an existing one to specify the presentation aspects of your application.

• Mixins tab of the Skin rules form

  Use the Mixins tab to define mixins (reusable style patterns). Mixins can define a reusable typography, border, or background style, or a style that is a combination of these styles. Using mixins helps ensure consistency across your user interface, maximize re-use, and minimize future maintenance.

• Base Settings

  The Base Settings tab sets the style for container or layout selected in the component styles tab.

• Component styles (custom style formats)

  Use the Component styles tab to define the presentation of components by creating custom style formats. After you define style formats, reference them on property panes for sections, harnesses, and controls.

• Skin form - Included Styles tab

  Use this tab to select which style sheets to add to the skin, and select the components to be supported in your application.