George M. Pieri

Creating Web pages with HTML can be time consuming, so it's critical to create generic visual components that can easily be reused. This will give you a consistent look and feel throughout your application. You'll be able to add new functionality at one location and make it available across multiple Web pages, which can save you a lot of time. Creating Reusable Visual Components In order to create reusable visual components, it's important to create generic stylesheets and JavaScript routines. The stylesheets can be used to display tabular data in a grid format, or menus to navigate your Web application (e.g., WebGrid.xsl, WebMenu.xsl). Even though these examples will show you how to build reusable tabular pages and menus, the same ideas can be used to generate any common type of Web page. The reusable stylesheet to display tabular (grid) data, WebGrid.xsl, should: 1.... (more)