# Formatting Table of Contents
It is possible to format the generated Table of Contents with custom stylesheets. Read more about it [here](/content-exporter-confluence/user-guides/before-exporting/custom-stylesheets.md).
## **Table of Contents selectors**
| Description | CSS selector | Type | Variable (#) | Example |
| ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ----- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| The table of content area | table-of-contents | class | none | .page.table-of-contents { color: red } |
| Define a hierarchy level | cex-toc-container-level-# | class | The hierarchical level of the container | .hierarchical .cex-toc-container-level-1 {
margin-left: 20px; }
|
| In case of a hierarchical export add a level | cex-toc-container | class | none | .hierarchical .cex-toc-container {
margin-left: 20px; }
|
| All elements on the hierarchical level | cex-toc-item-level-# | class | The hierarchical level of the item | .cex-toc-item-level-2 { font-weight: bold; } |
| All elements | cex-toc-item | class | none | .cex-toc-item { text-decoration: line-through; } |
| A page row in the Table of Contents | cex-toc-ref-to-page | class | none | .cex-toc-ref-to-page { text-decoration: line-through; } |
| A header row in the Table of Contents | cex-toc-ref-to-header | class | none | .cex-toc-ref-to-header { text-decoration: line-through; } |
| The original header level | cex-toc-original-header-# | class | The original header level | .cex-toc-original-header-1 { font-size: 16px; } |
| The header level in the printed Table of Contents | cex-toc-normalized-header-# | class | The generated header level after header optimization | .cex-toc-normalized-header-2{ font-size: 14px; } |
| The ID of each Table of Content rows | cex-toc-level-#-#-# | id | The generated numbering of the row | #cex-toc-level-1-2-3 { border: 1px solid; } |
## **Content selectors related to Table of Contents**
| Description | CSS selector | Type | Variable | Usage example |
| ------------------------- | ---------------- | ----- | ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Page level | page-title-lvl-# | class | The hierarchical level of the page. | .page-title-lvl-0 { color: red } |
| Headers level on the page | toc-header-# | class | The hierarchical level of the header. | .toc-header-0 { color: red } |
## **The HTML syntax of a Table of Contents**
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