With the 8.5 Domino Designer the new enhanced HTML-generation option can be used to leverage a CSS, via a theme, to enhance the look and feel of a traditional Notes application. There is limited support of this functionality in XPage themes. One function that is supported is that HTML pages will include references to the text/css resources defined in the theme. Another functionality that is supported is that the body control style property (as defined in the theme) is included in the body tag class attribute. What is not supported is the ability to search for theme design notes beyond the current database or theme inheritance.

To enable this functionality, select the database and choose Design | Design properties. Go to the Web access section of the Database properties box and select Enable enhanced HTML generation.