This option allows you to frame the CSS declarations generated by DocFlex into your own CSS file.

It may be useful when you need to add in the result style sheet some CSS rules not generated by DocFlex at all (for instance, to format the HTML markup embedded in your descriptions/annotations).
Those CSS rule that are generated can also be substituted with your own ones using custom rule file. See also the option: "Output | CSS | Generate named rules | Custom rule file".
The content of the CSS pattern file should look like the following:

...
...
/* docflex-styles */
...
Here, the dots depict some your content. All those lines will be copied as is to the result CSS file.

The line '/* docflex-styles */' is important. All DocFlex-generated CSS rules will be inserted in place of that comment. When it is absent, no automatically generated CSS rules will appear in the result CSS file.

The CSS pattern file can be applied only for the global style sheet. The local style sheets are not affected by it.

The name of the result CSS file (generated by DocFlex) will be the same as the name of your CSS pattern file. Thereby you can assign your own name to the result CSS file found in the generated documentation.

Related Options:

${include css_usage_link.htm}