Background

Domino includes a very powerful web engine, which allows us to access Notes data through a browser without major changes. Though we can handle mixed environements, we'll concentrate herein on web applications, where we'll go beyond the standards generated by domino. As a further condition, we use a domino view without any modification. (Some minor text formating changes, i.e. Font: Default sans serif, size 10, color black, Style plain for all, headers and body, may optimize speed, but are not imperatively required.)

Preparation

We need a form
	We create a form with the name "$$ViewTemplateDefault".
	We create a field within this form with the name $$ViewBody of Type Text, Computed for Display and the content "" (empty).
	From Objects, we select HTML Head Content and enter the following 2 lines: DBPath := "/"+@Unique(@ReplaceSubstring(@Subset(@DbName;-1);"\\":" ";"/":"+"))+"/"; "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\""+DBPath+"view.css\" type=\"text/css\">" + @NewLine
	We save the form.
And we need a page**
	We create a page with the name CSSview and the alias view.css
	In R5, we set the attributes as shown beside. In ND6, we set the attributes as shown beside. It's important to select Content type "Other" and to write "text/css" as shown. In ND6 a new field "$MimeType" with the content "text/css" is created, which assures the proper Content type to be sent to the browser. Leaving the Content type to the default selection "HTML", will generate warnings in w3c compliant browsers.
And we write the content of the stylesheet view.css (excerpt shown)
	table {    border: 0px;    border-spacing: 1px;    padding: 0px;    background-color: #FF0000; } td {    font-size: 9pt;    font-weight: 400;    text-align: left;    color: #000000;    font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;    padding-left: 5px;    padding-right: 5px;    padding-top: 2px;    padding-bottom: 2px;    border-width: 1px;    border-style: dashed;    border-color:#008000; }
To get the feeling how it works, change the padding values, play with colors and background-color, border-style, border-width, etc. To learn more about css consult w3.org:

For your convenience you may download the zipped nsf-DB with the fully working example

test CSS DB

** since ND6 we can include external style sheets under the section Shared Resources. This is a very powerful feature for site wide common style sheets, but for dedicated solutions as our example, pages are much easier to handle.