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title: Global styling
description: Global styling is the simplest way to style your data tables. A global style is defined once to style all data tables on your website and ensure a consist layout. Custom CSS can be added to a global style using…
url: "https://docs.legacy.wpdataaccess.com/docs/global-styling/"
updated: "2025-11-21"
category: Legacy Tools / Tables / Styling
---

# Global styling

Global styling is the simplest way to style your data tables. A global style is defined once to style all data tables on your website and ensure a consist layout. Custom CSS can be added to a global style using [Code Manager styling](/docs/code-manager-styling/) or [manual styling](/docs/manual-styling/).

## Activate a global style

- Go to Plugin Settings
- Tab Data Tables
- Select a publication style (see image below)
- Save publication settings

**The selected default style will be applied to all data tables on your website**!

  [![](https://wpdataaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/publication-style.png)](https://wpdataaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/publication-style.png)

When jQuery UI is selected as the default style, a default jQuery UI theme can be selected to further personalize styling.

## Add jQuery UI Theme

- Go to Plugin Settings
- Tab Front-end
- Select a jQuery UI theme (see image below)
- Save front-end settings

  [![](https://wpdataaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ui-theme.png)](https://wpdataaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ui-theme.png)

The selected jQuery UI theme will be applied to all data tables and data forms on your website.

## Notes

- Global styling is a premium feature
- Do not combine premium and global styling
- You can have only one global style
- Combining global styles is not possible