Style Existing Visualforce Pages with Lightning Experience Stylesheets

You can control whether a page is styled with the look of Lightning Experience when viewed in Lightning Experience or the Salesforce mobile app with the lightningStylesheets attribute.

The lightningStylesheets attribute isn’t supported in Communities.

Note

To style your Visualforce page to match the Lightning Experience UI when viewed in Lightning Experience or the Salesforce mobile app, set lightningStylesheets="true" in the <apex:page> tag. When the page is viewed in Salesforce Classic, it doesn’t get Lightning Experience styling.

1<apex:page lightningStylesheets="true">

If lightningStylesheets="true", the CSS scoping class slds-vf-scope is automatically applied to the Visualforce page’s <body> element. The scoping class is applied so that your content matches the Lightning Experience UI. If you set applyBodyTag or applyHtmlTag to false, you must manually add the scoping class slds-vf-scope.

Here is a standard Visualforce page without the lightningStylesheets attribute. The page is styled with the Classic UI. Visualforce page not styled with the lightningStylesheets attribute. It is styled with the Classic UI.

Here is the same Visualforce page with the lightningStylesheets attribute set to true. Visualforce page with the lightningStylesheets attribute set to true. The UI matches Lightning Experience.

You can style most commonly used Visualforce components with the lightningStylesheets attribute. However, some components differ slightly in style from Lightning Experience. For example, <apex:inputFile>, and some <apex:inputField> elements use the browser’s default styling instead. Commonly used Visualforce components that don’t require styling, such as <apex:form>, <apex:outputText>, and <apex:param>, are still supported.

To include custom SLDS components that aren’t part of the Visualforce component library, use the <apex:slds/> tag with the code and the lightningStylesheets attribute.

ThelightningStylesheets attribute doesn’t affect custom styling. Custom code must be updated to match the page’s SLDS styling.
If set to false, the standardStylesheets attribute for <apex:page> overrides and suppresses lightningStylesheets in Lightning Experience, Salesforce Classic, and the mobile app.
The <apex:slds> component has known issues when creating PDF files from Visualforce pages. For this reason, lightningStyleSheets does not support <apex:page renderAs="pdf"> or calls to PageReference.getContentAsPDF().

Note

When using lightningStylesheets="true", most Visualforce buttons display as the neutral variant. Neutral styling of buttons occurs because there’s no selector hook to reliably determine which buttons must be branded. Add the .slds-vf-button_brand style attribute to the <apex:commandButton> to create a button styled based on your org branding:

1<apex:commandButton styleClass="slds-vf-button_brand" value="Refresh the Page">

When building new features, use <apex:slds> and implement the button using the Lightning Design System Button blueprint.

Note

The following Visualforce components support the lightningStylesheets attribute or don’t require styling.

analytics:reportChart
apex:actionFunction
apex:actionPoller
apex:actionRegion
apex:actionStatus
apex:actionSupport
apex:areaSeries
apex:attribute
apex:axis
apex:barSeries
apex:canvasApp
apex:chart
apex:chartLabel
apex:chartTips
apex:column
apex:commandButton
apex:commandLink
apex:component
apex:componentBody
apex:composition
apex:dataList
apex:dataTable
apex:define
apex:detail
apex:dynamicComponent
apex:enhancedList
apex:facet
apex:flash
apex:form
apex:gaugeSeries
apex:iframe
apex:image
apex:include
apex:includeLightning
apex:includeScript
apex:inlineEditSupport
apex:input
apex:inputCheckbox
apex:inputField
apex:inputFile
apex:inputHidden
apex:inputSecret
apex:inputText
apex:inputTextArea
apex:insert
apex:legend
apex:lineSeries
apex:listViews
apex:map
apex:mapMarker
apex:message
apex:messages
apex:outputField
apex:outputLabel
apex:outputLink
apex:outputPanel
apex:outputText
apex:page
apex:pageBlock
apex:pageBlockButtons
apex:pageBlockSection
apex:pageBlockSectionItem
apex:pageBlockTable
apex:pageMessage
apex:pageMessages
apex:panelBar
apex:panelBarItem
apex:panelGrid
apex:panelGroup
apex:param
apex:pieSeries
apex:radarSeries
apex:relatedList
apex:remoteObjectField
apex:remoteObjectModel
apex:remoteObjects
apex:repeat
apex:scatterSeries
apex:scontrol
apex:sectionHeader
apex:selectCheckboxes
apex:selectList
apex:selectOption
apex:selectOptions
apex:selectRadio
apex:stylesheet
apex:tab
apex:tabPanel
apex:toolbar
apex:toolbarGroup
apex:variable
chatter:feed
chatter:feedWithFollowers
chatter:follow
chatter:newsFeed
flow:interview
site:googleAnalyticsTracking
site:previewAsAdmin
topics:widget

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Style Existing Visualforce Pages with Lightning Experience Stylesheets