diff --git a/code/controllers/subsystem/tgui.dm b/code/controllers/subsystem/tgui.dm
index a3ef03f3e397..7df4e7ce9c2b 100644
--- a/code/controllers/subsystem/tgui.dm
+++ b/code/controllers/subsystem/tgui.dm
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM_DEF(tgui)
 	var/polyfill = file2text('tgui/public/tgui-polyfill.min.js')
 	polyfill = "<script>\n[polyfill]\n</script>"
 	basehtml = replacetextEx(basehtml, "<!-- tgui:inline-polyfill -->", polyfill)
+	basehtml = replacetext(basehtml, "tgui:stylesheet", MAP_STYLESHEET)
 
 /datum/controller/subsystem/tgui/Shutdown()
 	close_all_uis()
diff --git a/code/modules/tgui/tgui.dm b/code/modules/tgui/tgui.dm
index 123c0f5a6414..c30c0b1d984f 100644
--- a/code/modules/tgui/tgui.dm
+++ b/code/modules/tgui/tgui.dm
@@ -245,7 +245,6 @@
 		"status" = status,
 		"interface" = interface,
 		"refreshing" = refreshing,
-		"styles" = MAP_STYLESHEET,
 		"window" = list(
 			"key" = window_key,
 			"size" = window_size,
diff --git a/tgui/global.d.ts b/tgui/global.d.ts
index 9cb8e37c2e8c..994632e499a3 100644
--- a/tgui/global.d.ts
+++ b/tgui/global.d.ts
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ type ByondType = {
    * Loads a script into the document.
    */
   loadJs(url: string): void;
+
+  /**
+   * The ByondCSS stylesheet to load into ByondUI components
+   */
+  styleSheet: string;
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/tgui/packages/tgui/backend.ts b/tgui/packages/tgui/backend.ts
index 85e8f93b0f4e..9190d74dbe23 100644
--- a/tgui/packages/tgui/backend.ts
+++ b/tgui/packages/tgui/backend.ts
@@ -269,7 +269,6 @@ type BackendState<TData> = {
       name: string;
       observer: number;
     };
-    styles: string;
   };
   data: TData;
   shared: Record<string, any>;
diff --git a/tgui/packages/tgui/components/ByondUi.jsx b/tgui/packages/tgui/components/ByondUi.jsx
index 721a31a74182..41304745509b 100644
--- a/tgui/packages/tgui/components/ByondUi.jsx
+++ b/tgui/packages/tgui/components/ByondUi.jsx
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import { shallowDiffers } from 'common/react';
 import { debounce } from 'common/timer';
 import { Component, createRef } from 'react';
 
-import { useBackend } from '../backend';
 import { createLogger } from '../logging';
 import { computeBoxProps } from './Box';
 
@@ -30,13 +29,7 @@ const createByondUiElement = (elementId) => {
       logger.log(`rendering '${id}'`);
       byondUiStack[index] = id;
 
-      const { config } = useBackend();
-
-      const paramsWithStyle = {
-        ...params,
-        style: config.styles,
-      };
-      Byond.winset(id, paramsWithStyle);
+      Byond.winset(id, { ...params, style: Byond.styleSheet });
     },
     unmount: () => {
       logger.log(`unmounting '${id}'`);
diff --git a/tgui/public/tgui.html b/tgui/public/tgui.html
index 807abca247f7..9db3acec2ebe 100644
--- a/tgui/public/tgui.html
+++ b/tgui/public/tgui.html
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
   // Expose inlined metadata
   Byond.windowId = parseMetaTag('tgui:windowId');
 
+  Byond.styleSheet = "tgui:stylesheet"
+
   // Backwards compatibility
   window.__windowId__ = Byond.windowId;