# Styling sheets
### General styling
If you want to change the general styling of your sheet (not cell or range specific), you can use the `->setStyle()` method or any of the other setters which can be found inside the export documentation.
// Font family
$sheet->setFontFamily('Comic Sans MS');
// Set font with ->setStyle()`
$sheet->setStyle(array(
'font' => array(
'name' => 'Calibri',
'size' => 12,
'bold' => true
)
));
### Styling with PHPExcel methods
It's possible to style the sheets and specific cells with help of PHPExcel methods. This package includes a lot of shortcuts (see export documentation), but also always the use of the native methods.
// Set background color for a specific cell
$sheet->getStyle('A1')->applyFromArray(array(
'fill' => array(
'type' => PHPExcel_Style_Fill::FILL_SOLID,
'color' => array('rgb' => 'FF0000')
)
));
### Using HTML tags
Most of the HTML tags are supported.
Big title |
Bold cell |
Bold cell |
Italic cell |
 |
> Inside the `view.php` config you can change how these tags will be interpreted by Excel by default.
### Using HTML attributes
Some of the basic styling can be done with HTML attributes.
Big title |
Bold cell |
Bold cell |
Italic cell |
Cell with width of 100 |
Cell with height of 100 |
### Styling through inline-styles
It's possible to use inline styles inside your view files. Most of the general styles are supported.
Cell |
> Inside the reference guide you can find a list of supported styles.
### Styling through external CSS file
Styling can be done through an external CSS file.
External css file:
#cell {
background-color: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
}
.cell {
background-color: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
}
tr td {
background-color: #ffffff;
}
tr > td {
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
}
Table:
{{ HTML::style('css/table.css') }}
Cell |
Cell |
> Inside the reference guide you can find a list of supported styles.
> It's advised to include `` into the view to fix problems with UTF-8 encoding.