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How to change background color of the write dialog

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bold text Hi, Is there a way to customize the background color of the Write dialog via CSS?

'''bold text''' Hi, Is there a way to customize the background color of the Write dialog via CSS?

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For HTML messages, Options/Composition/HTML Style, Background Color.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1253762

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Thank you for your help. I was trying to change the color of the grey message header panel. Please see the attached image.

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Try this userChrome.css (see picture):

#msgHeaderViewDeck {
  background-color: lightblue !important;
  border-bottom: 0 !important;
}

#compactHeadersBox {
  background-color: lightblue !important;
  border-bottom: 0 !important;
}

Help/Troubleshooting, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code, change the color as desired. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Options/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

The second part is only needed if you use the Compact Headers add-on.

Modified by sfhowes

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Thank you for the suggestion. I tried it. Including changing toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true. Unfortunately, it has no effect. I am using TB v.91.0b6 (64-bit)'

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For TB 91b6, just replace msgHeaderViewDeck with msgHeaderView. This also works in TB 78, as does the first set of code.

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Thank you again for your help, but this changes the message area not the area in the write dialog that I have shown in the image.

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Oops, was looking at received headers instead of the Write window. Try this (see picture):

#MsgHeadersToolbar
{ background-color: yellow !important;
  color: blue !important; }

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13720943#p13720943

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Thank you very much. It worked.