Create a custom skin file
4.4.4. Creating and Using Your Own Skin File To create your own skin file: Create a file. In it, define skin constants to be used by style classes (see Section 4.4.3, “Skin Parameters Tables in RichFaces�). The name of the skin file should follow this format: .skin.properties. (For examples of this file, see the RichFaces predefined skin parameters: blueSky, classic, deepMarine, etc. These files are located in the richfaces-impl-xxxxx.jar archive in the /META-INF/skins folder. Add the skin definition to the web.xml of your application, like so: ... org.richfaces.SKIN name ... Place your .skin.properties file in either your /META-INF/skins or /WEB-INF/classes directory.