Skin rulesCompleting the Create, Save As, or Specialization form

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Skin rules Completing the Create, Save As, or Specialization form
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Label

Create a skin rule by selecting Skin from the User Interface category.

Key parts:

A Skin rule has a single key part:

Field	Description
Label	Type a name for the skin that begins with a letter, and uses only letters, numbers, and hyphens.

Additional creation options

Select the Inherit component formats and mixins from an existing skin to assign a parent skin to the new skin. The new skin will inherit styles from the parent.

Rule resolution

When searching for a Skin rule, the system

Filters candidate rules based on a requestor's RuleSet list of RuleSets and versions
Finds circumstance-qualified rules that override base rules

The class hierarchy is not relevant to rule resolution for skin rules. Time-qualified circumstances are not supported for skin rules.

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Skin rulesCompleting the Create, Save As, or Specialization form

Key parts:

Field

Description

Additional creation options

Rule resolution

Skin rules
Completing the Create, Save As, or Specialization form