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title: "What are skins?"  
description: "What are skins?"  
author: "Varun Agrawal"  
published: 2011-03-29  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/736/what-are-skins  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are skins?

A theme contains one or more skin files. A skin is simply a text file with a .skin extension and contains definition of styles applied to server controls in an ASP.NET page. For eg:

```
<asp:button runat="server" BackColor="blue" BorderColor="Gray" Font-Bold ="true" ForeColor="white"/>
```

Defines a skin that will be applied to all buttons throughout to give it a consistent look and feel.

## Answers

### Answer by Varun Agrawal

A theme contains one or more skin files. A skin is simply a text file with a .skin extension and contains definition of styles applied to server controls in an ASP.NET page. For eg:

```
<asp:button runat="server" BackColor="blue" BorderColor="Gray" Font-Bold ="true" ForeColor="white"/>
```

Defines a skin that will be applied to all buttons throughout to give it a consistent look and feel.


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