# Skins

To make customizing the appearance of **RadNotification** as easy as possible, the control uses skins. A skin is a set of images and a CSS stylesheet that are applied to the HTML elements which make up the notification, defining the look and feel.

To apply a skin, set the **Skin** property of the **RadNotification**. You can set the it by using the properties pane, the server-side property or the control's Smart Tag.

**RadNotification** is installed with a number of predefined skins:

![radnotification-skins-list](https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/assets/9f126bf8e44eb0526742cf815bbef89f/notification-skins.png)

> note The **Material** skin is available for the [Lightweight RenderMode](https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/render-modes) only. If you experience visual issues with it, make sure your controls are not using the default Classic mode.

> note The **Shadow** and **Rounded Corners** are achieved via CSS3 properties and will not have effect under browsers that do not support them (such as IE8 and prior, FireFox 3, etc).

## See Also

* [Smart Tag](https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/controls/notification/design-time)
* [Telerik ThemeBuilder for ASP.NET AJAX](https://themebuilder.telerik.com/)