Directives

A directive is a CSS top level declaration that allows control of some aspects of the stylesheet application or translation to SLD. All directives are declared at the beginning of the CSS sheet and follow the same syntax:

@name value;

For example:

@mode 'Flat';
@styleName 'The name';
@styleTitle 'The title;
@styleAbstract 'This is a longer description'

* { 
  stroke: black 
}

[cat = 10] { 
  stroke: yellow; stroke-width: 10 
}

Supported directives

Directive	Type	Meaning	Accepts Expression?
mode	String, Exclusive, Simple, Auto, Flat	Controls how the CSS is translated to SLD. Exclusive, Simple and Auto are cascaded modes, Flat turns off cascading and has the CSS behave like a simplified syntax SLD sheet. See Understanding Cascading in CSS for an explanation of how the various modes work	false
styleName	String	The generated SLD style name	No
styleTitle	String	The generated SLD style title	No
styleAbstract	String	The generated SLD style abstract/description	No