Chris Raymond

Chris Raymond

Chris Raymond, Senior Data AnalystMedibank Private

Many organisations have a corporate look-and-feel that is implemented on their web site via a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).When creating web output with the ODS, the default HTML formatting method is to use a SAS template created by PROC TEMPLATE.The template can be modified to format HTML in a style that emulates the corporate look-and-feel, but the generated HTML does not reference the styles in the CSS (ie. low level, native HTML is produced).Thus if the corporate CSS changes, corresponding changes need to be made to the SAS template and the HTML regenerated.A better approach in this situation is to get the ODS to generate CLASS statements via the "/style=[htmlclass='xxxx']" option.This means the generated HTML will reference the styles in the CSS and thus always reflect the current corporate look-and-feel, even if the styles are changed.