change color of highlight bar when msg is selected

[tbirdphil]

i'm running thunderbird 78.9 on windows 10. my problem is;

in the inbox list, i have managed to change the highlight bar to a different color than the default dark blue. but when a msg is selected, the highlight bar changes from the color i had, back to its original dark blue on black text which is really hard to read. how do i change it so even when selecting a msg from the list i can get the highlight bar either not to revert back to original dark blue or i can change it to some other color so it's more easily readable.

/* Global UI font.....*/
* {
font-size: 11pt !important;
font-weight: bold !important;

/* change color of unread incoming messages to red */
}
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(unread) {
font-family: Times New Roman;
color: red !important;
}

/* change color of read inbox messages to black & bold */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(read) {
font-family: Times New Roman !important;
color: black !important;
font-weight: bold !important;

/* change color of highlight bar in message list to light gray */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(selected) {background-color: #aaa !important;
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(selected, focus) {background-color: #aaa !important;

[tbirdphil]

figured out a solution to the problem. when i scroll up and down the message list with the highlight bar, it's light gray as before. when i highlight and select a message, the bar turns a dark blue as before with black text-very unreadable. so... in the section below, instead of setting the color to black, i set it to dark gray. now, when i select a message in the list, it shows a dark blue background as before with dark gray text which it very readable. really wanted to change the dark blue color, but this works out ok.

/* change color of read inbox messages to black & bold */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(read) {
font-family: Times New Roman !important;
color: dark gray !important;
font-weight: bold !important;

[tbirdphil]

this is with thunderbird 78.9 again. this coding below changes the font/weight of the message list, changes the color of incoming messages to red, the font to times new roman, when a message is selected in the list it turns the selection bar from gray to green and the font to white which makes it easily readable and 'read' messages are black/bold.
these are the colors that work good for me, but can be changed to suit your needs. hope this helps someone.

/* Global UI font.....*/
* {
font-size: 11pt !important;
font-weight: bold !important;

/* change color of unread incoming messages to red */
}
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(unread) {
font-family: Times New Roman;
color: red !important;
}

/* change selected row background to green */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected) {
background-color: green !important;
}

/* change selected text to white */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(selected) {
color: white !important;
}

/* change color of read inbox messages to black & bold */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(read) {
font-family: Times New Roman !important;
color: black !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
}