About Style Templates

An ODS style is a collection of named style elements that provides specific visual attributes for the presentation aspects (color, font face, font size, and so on) of your graphical and tabular SAS output. Each style element is a named collection of style attributes such as color, marker symbol, line style, font face, as well as many others. Each graphical element of a plot, such as a marker, a bar, a line or a title, derives its visual attributes from a specific style element from the current style.

Note:   The style that a destination uses is applied to tabular output as well as graphical output.  

Every ODS output destination, except the Document and Output destinations, has a default style associated with it. These default styles are different for each destination, therefore your output might look different depending on which destination you use. If your program does not specify a style, SAS uses the styles listed in Default Style Templates.

The default styles for these destinations are set in the SAS registry. Changing the default style for these destinations in the SAS registry is a convenient way to apply a company's style to all output sent to all destinations. See Changing the Default Style in the SAS Registry.

For example, Tabular Output Using the Default HTML Style and Graphical Output Using the Default HTML Style show what tabular output and SAS/GRAPH output look like when they are sent to the HTML destination and no style is specified. Tabular Output Using the Default PDF Style and Graphical Output Using the Default PDF Style what tabular output and SAS/GRAPH output look like when they are sent to the PDF destination and no style is specified. In all cases, the default style listed in Default Style Templates was used.

Tabular Output Using the Default HTML Style

Graphical Output Using the Default HTML Style

Tabular Output Using the Default PDF Style

Graphical Output Using the Default PDF Style

SAS ships a set of styles that have been designed by GUI experts to address the needs of different situations. Recommended Style Templates describes a subset of the styles shipped with SAS that are particularly well-suited to displaying graphics.

Note:   Certain ODS styles map textures onto graph elements. For the Java devices, these textures can be applied to two-dimensional rectangles only. Therefore, styles with textures cannot be applied to three-dimensional bar and pie charts in Java graphs.   

To view the list of all styles available, submit the following code:

proc template;
     list styles;
run;

Each of the following graphs was created using a different style.

Output Using the Listing Style

HTML Output Using the Default Style

Output Using the Analysis Style

Output Using the Journal Style

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