ColdFusion provides the following methods for controlling the style and appearance of Flash forms and their elements:
Skins provide a simple method for controlling the overall appearance of your form. A single skin controls the entire form.
Styles provide a finer-grained level of control than skins. Each style specifies a particular characteristic for a single control. Many styles are also inherited by a control's children.
You can use both techniques in combination: you can specify a skin for your form and use styles to specify the appearance (such as input text font) of individual controls.
The following sections describe these methods and how you can use them. For detailed information on the style names and values that you can use, see ColdFusion MX Flash Form Style Reference in CFML Reference.