Visualforce Developer Guide

Introducing Visualforce
Tools for Visualforce Development
Getting a Quick Start with Visualforce
Customizing the Appearance and Output of Visualforce Pages
Standard Controllers
Associating a Standard Controller with a Visualforce Page
Accessing Data with a Standard Controller
Using Standard Controller Actions
Validation Rules and Standard Controllers
Styling Pages that Use Standard Controllers
Checking for Object Accessibility
Standard List Controllers
Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions
Advanced Examples
Override Buttons, Links, and Tabs with Visualforce
Using Static Resources
Creating and Using Custom Components
Dynamic Visualforce Bindings
Dynamic Visualforce Components
Integrate Email with Visualforce
Visualforce Charting
Creating Maps with Visualforce
Render Flows with Visualforce
Templating with Visualforce
Developing Salesforce Apps with Visualforce
Adding Visualforce to a Salesforce AppExchange App
Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Visualforce Best Practices
Standard Visualforce Component Reference
Appendices
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Associating a Standard Controller with a Visualforce Page

To associate a standard controller with a Visualforce page, use the standardController attribute on the <apex:page> tag and assign it the name of any Salesforce object that can be queried using the Lightning Platform API.

For example, to associate a page with the standard controller for a custom object named MyCustomObject, use the following markup:

1<apex:page standardController="MyCustomObject__c">
2</apex:page>

When you use the standardController attribute on the <apex:page> tag, you cannot use the controller attribute at the same time.

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