Recently I've been interested in the mechanics of an operating system. In the way that I style HTML pages with CSS, I was wondering what developers use to style an OS so that I can learn more about it. Any help appreciated!
(1) Graphical User Interface (GUI) (see also Wikipedia: Graphical user interface) for different OS platforms is typically composed of widgets provided by OS-specific GUI toolkits (see also Wikipedia: List of widget toolkits)
The way how developers "style" the user interface depends on what the toolkit enables and on what the platform dictates (see also Stack Overflow: Is there anything called GUI standards?)
(2) For example, in order to learn the way how to create and "style" an application that will run on the Windows desktop OS you can start at Windows → Dev Center - Desktop → Getting Started Developing User Interfaces for Windows Applications where the section called "Implementing a User Interface" will throw you quite directly towards the GUI API provided by the OS.
You can find one another very concrete example related to the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) widget library (just one of the possible choices) in article Microsoft Developer Network → Windows Presentation Foundation → Styling and Templating
Different Operating Systems use different native widget libraries and different sets of APIs and different User Interface Design Guidelines. You can use the links in part (1) to find them
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