Styling > Customizing Network Elements > Customizing Network Element Types

In ILOG JViews TGO, the network element type defines how the object base will be represented. Each network element type is associated with a specific base renderer that is in charge of drawing the object according to its type and state information.

In JViews TGO, you can customize the behavior of the base renderer by using CSS. In addition, you can extend the base representation of graphic objects in two different ways, either by using a predefined base renderer factory class (IltNEImageBaseRendererFactory or IltNESVGBaseRendererFactory), or by implementing your own subclass of IltNEBaseRenderer for each new type of network element that you want to create.

In this section, you will find information about the following: