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userChrome.css to disable blue highlight marker on active tab

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I am using tab-on-bottom code in userChrome.css that I got from the web.

1. There is a highlight feature of the tabs. A mouse-over will do a subtle enhancement of the top portion of the line delineating of the tab. 2. The active tab has a blue bar at the top portion of the line delineating the tab.

I want both to go away. I have code to highlight the background color of the active tab and need no other highlight function.

The userChrome.css is below.

Thanks, Gert

/* TABS: bottom - Firefox 65 and newer; should for now work with XUL @namespace */


  1. TabsToolbar {
 -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1000 !important;
 display: block !important;
 position: absolute !important;
 bottom: 0 !important;
 width: 100vw !important;

}

  1. tabbrowser-tabs {
 width: 100vw !important;

}

  • |*:root:not([chromehidden*="toolbar"]) #navigator-toolbox {
 padding-bottom: calc(var(--tab-min-height) + 1px) !important; /*adjust*/

}

/* position Tab bar with Menu bar and Title bar hidden for Firefox 65-73 - omit in Firefox Nightly */

  • |*:root[tabsintitlebar]:not([inFullscreen="true"]):not([sizemode="maximized"])
  1. toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"] ~ #xTabsToolbar{
 bottom: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
 padding-top: calc(var(--tab-min-height) - 0px) !important; /*adjust*/

}

/* TABS: height */

  • |*:root {
 --tab-toolbar-navbar-overlap: 0px !important;
 --tab-min-height: 30px !important; /*adjust to set height or omit to use density*/
 --tab-min-width:  80px !important; /*adjust to set width or omit to use default*/

}

  1. TabsToolbar {
 height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
 margin-bottom: -0px !important; /*adjust*/
 background-color: #F5F6F7 !important;

}


/* caption buttons - hide */

  • |*:root[tabsintitlebar]:not([inFullscreen="true"])
#toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar
.titlebar-buttonbox-container {display: none !important;}

/* Change Color of active tab */ .tab-background[selected="true"] {

   background-color: #A8FFAD !important;
   background-image: none !important;

}

/* Rounded corners on tabs firefox 58 */ /* http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3037688# */ .tabbrowser-tab::after, .tabbrowser-tab::before {

  border-left: none !important;

} .tab-background {

 border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px !important;
 border-image: none !important;
 border-left: 1px solid !important;
 border-right: 1px solid !important;
 border-top: 1px solid !important;
 border-width: 1px !important;
 border-color: #000080 !important;
 background-attachment: none!important;
 background-color: #DAD7D0 !important;
 background-image: none !important;

}

/* Menu bar (File Edit View) height and background color */

  1. toolbar-menubar, #menubar-items, #main-menubar {
 height: 30px !important;
 background-color: #DAD7D0 !important;
 background-image: none !important;
 font-size: 14px !important;

}

/* Menu bar (File Edit View) text color */ .menubar-text, .tabbrowser-tab:not([selected="true"]) tab-label {

 color: #080808 !important;

}

/* Use Normal top and bottom padding for Compact */

  1. PlacesToolbarItems .bookmark-item {
 padding-top: 10px !important;
 padding-bottom: 6px !important;

}

I am using tab-on-bottom code in userChrome.css that I got from the web. 1. There is a highlight feature of the tabs. A mouse-over will do a subtle enhancement of the top portion of the line delineating of the tab. 2. The active tab has a blue bar at the top portion of the line delineating the tab. I want both to go away. I have code to highlight the background color of the active tab and need no other highlight function. The userChrome.css is below. Thanks, Gert /* TABS: bottom - Firefox 65 and newer; should for now work with XUL @namespace */ #TabsToolbar { -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1000 !important; display: block !important; position: absolute !important; bottom: 0 !important; width: 100vw !important; } #tabbrowser-tabs { width: 100vw !important; } *|*:root:not([chromehidden*="toolbar"]) #navigator-toolbox { padding-bottom: calc(var(--tab-min-height) + 1px) !important; /*adjust*/ } /* position Tab bar with Menu bar and Title bar hidden for Firefox 65-73 - omit in Firefox Nightly */ *|*:root[tabsintitlebar]:not([inFullscreen="true"]):not([sizemode="maximized"]) #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"] ~ #xTabsToolbar{ bottom: var(--tab-min-height) !important; padding-top: calc(var(--tab-min-height) - 0px) !important; /*adjust*/ } /* TABS: height */ *|*:root { --tab-toolbar-navbar-overlap: 0px !important; --tab-min-height: 30px !important; /*adjust to set height or omit to use density*/ --tab-min-width: 80px !important; /*adjust to set width or omit to use default*/ } #TabsToolbar { height: var(--tab-min-height) !important; margin-bottom: -0px !important; /*adjust*/ background-color: #F5F6F7 !important; } /* caption buttons - hide */ *|*:root[tabsintitlebar]:not([inFullscreen="true"]) #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar .titlebar-buttonbox-container {display: none !important;} /* Change Color of active tab */ .tab-background[selected="true"] { background-color: #A8FFAD !important; background-image: none !important; } /* Rounded corners on tabs firefox 58 */ /* http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3037688# */ .tabbrowser-tab::after, .tabbrowser-tab::before { border-left: none !important; } .tab-background { border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px !important; border-image: none !important; border-left: 1px solid !important; border-right: 1px solid !important; border-top: 1px solid !important; border-width: 1px !important; border-color: #000080 !important; background-attachment: none!important; background-color: #DAD7D0 !important; background-image: none !important; } /* Menu bar (File Edit View) height and background color */ #toolbar-menubar, #menubar-items, #main-menubar { height: 30px !important; background-color: #DAD7D0 !important; background-image: none !important; font-size: 14px !important; } /* Menu bar (File Edit View) text color */ .menubar-text, .tabbrowser-tab:not([selected="true"]) tab-label { color: #080808 !important; } /* Use Normal top and bottom padding for Compact */ #PlacesToolbarItems .bookmark-item { padding-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 6px !important; }

Modified by drgert1

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Hi Gert, you can put <pre> before and </pre> after blocks of CSS here to avoid interpretation as wiki markup.

The selector for the line at the top of each tab is very sensibly named: .tab-line

To suppress that you could try either:

.tab-line { opacity: 0 !important; } .tab-line { background-color: transparent !important; }

Was that it?

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Hi Gert, you can put <pre> before and </pre> after blocks of CSS here to avoid interpretation as wiki markup.

The selector for the line at the top of each tab is very sensibly named: .tab-line

To suppress that you could try either:

.tab-line { opacity: 0 !important; } .tab-line { background-color: transparent !important; }

Was that it?

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Yes, both work.

Just wondering, is there a comprehensive list of UI objects with tutorial how to control them?

Cheers, Gert

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There's definitely nothing official, and things change often, so any list would age rapidly. You could do what many people do and become comfortable poking around using the Browser Toolbox. https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox