Inline styles are CSS styles applied to an user interface element. Multiple properties can be applied to an element and they are separated by semi-colon. Inline styles take highest precedence. Styling rules defined by inlineStyle in ADF are added directly to the JSF page source as part of the component markup. Any styles defined in CSS style class will be overridden by the inline styles on the element. This is an advantage as well as disadvantage. Element styles can be overridden unintentionally. For re-usability and maintenance, extensive use of inline styles should be avoided. In this post I will discuss another use of inline style which is an uncommon use case in WebCenter Portal. It isn't just for CSS styles as I found in my recent practice. The inline style can set the selected state of a navigation node in WebCenter portal application. This is a very unique use case. It has to satisfy the following scenario: 1. Go link is used to implement the navigation model links. The...
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