Turning off CSS styles or using your own style sheets

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If the style sheet options included on our websites do not suit your visual needs you can turn the styles off and reset your own. This option is recommended for any user with specific visual or manual requirements

Most mobile phone and PDA browsers can be also be set to ignore graphics. Use “options” on your browser to choose not to load graphics.

If you are using Internet Explorer (IE)

  • 1. Select the Tools>Internet Options> General
  • 2. Click on the ‘Accessibility’
  • 3. Select the checkbox marked ‘Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages’.
  • 4. Select the checkbox marked ‘Ignore font styles specified on Web pages’.
  • 4. Select the checkbox marked ‘Ignore colours specified on web pages’.
  • 5. Click OK (and again if necessary).

You may need to refresh the page (F5) to show these changes

If you are using Safari:

Unfortunately you cannot remove a stylesheet with Safari, only replace it. We recommend you use our prescribed ‘Cream and Blue’ CSS style which is available on most sites and has the least ‘decorative’ features.

You may need to refresh the page (F5) to show these changes

If you are using Firefox:

  • 1. Select View>Page style, then choose “no style”.

You may need to refresh the page (F5) to show these changes

If you are using Opera:

  • 1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Page Styles
  • 2. Deselect both checkboxes for “Document CSS” as well as both checkboxes for “My style sheet”
  • 3. Click “OK”

You may need to refresh the page (F5) to show these changes

If you are using Netscape:

  • 1. Choose Edit>Preferences
  • 2. Category>Advanced
  • 3. Deselect “Enable style sheets” towards the middle of the window.
  • 4. Click “OK

You may need to refresh the page (F5) to show these changes

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