Suppressing the Salesforce User Interface and Styles

By default, Visualforce pages adopt the same visual styling and user interface “chrome” as the rest of Salesforce. This makes it easy for you to create pages that look like they’re built right into Salesforce. If you don’t want a page to have the Salesforce look and feel, you can suppress various aspects of the Salesforce page and visual design.
It’s easy to create pages with a different look and feel. You can change the page-level user interface resources added by Visualforce using the following attributes on the <apex:page> component.
  • sidebar—Set to false to suppress the standard sidebar. Removing the sidebar gives your page a wider canvas. For example, you can show more columns in a table.

    This attribute doesn’t affect the rest of the Salesforce look and feel. You can continue to use components like <apex:pageBlock>, <apex:detail>, and <apex:inputField> that render with Salesforce user interface styling.

  • showHeader—Set to false to suppress the standard Salesforce page design. The header, tabs, and sidebar are removed, along with their associated style sheets and JavaScript resources. You have a blank page ready to fill in with your own user interface.

    It does not, however, suppress all the style sheets that provide the Salesforce visual design. Visualforce components that you add to the page continue to adopt the Salesforce visual design.

  • standardStylesheets—Set to false, along with setting showHeader to false, to suppress the inclusion of the style sheets that support the Salesforce visual design. When you suppress the standard style sheets, your page is completely unstyled, except for your own style sheets.
    Note

    Note

    If you don’t load the Salesforce style sheets, components that require them don’t display correctly.

    Setting this attribute to false has no effect if showHeader isn’t also set to false.

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