Change Colour of Info Bar Above Email Content Pane

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Eugbug
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Change Colour of Info Bar Above Email Content Pane

Post by Eugbug »

A question about the mid screen bar that shows info about "to" and "from" and subject of emails. Currently this is pale grey on my Windows 10 system, so maybe that's part of the colour scheme. Is it possible to change this separately to more clearly distinguish between the list of emails and their content?
Last edited by Eugbug on July 8th, 2019, 2:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
morat
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Re: Change Colour of Info Bar Above Email Content Pane

Post by morat »

Try this:

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/* Thunderbird userChrome.css */

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

#expandedHeaderView {
  background-color: orange !important;
}
http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css
Eugbug
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Re: Change Colour of Info Bar Above Email Content Pane

Post by Eugbug »

morat wrote:Try this:

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/* Thunderbird userChrome.css */

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

#expandedHeaderView {
  background-color: orange !important;
}
http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css
Thanks tried that, but it didn't work. Something minor is probably wrong along the line. Is userChrome.css case sensitive? That's how I spelled it. I created it as a text file and saved it with ANSI encoding, not Unicode. There was no chrome folder in my profile folder, so I had to create it.
morat
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Re: Change Colour of Info Bar Above Email Content Pane

Post by morat »

Does the userChrome.css file work at all?

Try the following tweak as a test.

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/* Thunderbird userChrome.css */

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

* { background-color: pink !important; }
Eugbug
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Re: Change Colour of Info Bar Above Email Content Pane

Post by Eugbug »

morat wrote:Does the userChrome.css file work at all?

Try the following tweak as a test.

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/* Thunderbird userChrome.css */

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

* { background-color: pink !important; }

Managed to sort it.
There was another subfolder with a string of numbers in the profiles folder. Created a chrome folder in that and shifted the userChrome.css file there and now it's working.
Thanks again for the help :)
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