SQLMeat (10/8/2010)
Thanks SPCGHST440,CSS can be used to configure the report manager toolbar, but not the report contents. Here is an excerpt from that very page:
Modifying style sheets has no effect on the appearance of published reports that you run on a report server. In Reporting Services, reports do not reference style sheets. Ad hoc reports that are auto-generated by the report server use style information that is stored as an embedded resource in the report server program files. Reports that you create in Report Designer use the fonts, colors, and layout that you specify in the report definition. Styles are created inline with the rest of the layout.
Which is quite puzzling. If Microsoft took the time to partially support CSS, why not go full monty!? You still need an alternative way to dynamically style the report contents, which is what we're discussing here. Thanks for your input!
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Don't quote me on this but I think this makes sense. The Report Manager is a web app that is subject to style sheets. However I believe the reports are rendered before they get to the report manager and they come to the Report Manager as a kind of package that the Report Manager places into something akin to a web part.