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Highlight color in table view - how to change color or text color when email is hilighted?

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Using Thunderbird, when updated to version 148 (64 bit) the highlighted color is dark and does not contrast to the text color (black) so it is hard to read. How to change the color? or the color of the text?

Using Thunderbird, when updated to version 148 (64 bit) the highlighted color is dark and does not contrast to the text color (black) so it is hard to read. How to change the color? or the color of the text?

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The row background and text colours can be set with css (see picture):

/* row bg, text colours for selected messages table view*/
tr[is="thread-row"].selected {
  color: white !important;
  background-color: red !important; 
}


Help/Troubleshooting Info, 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 colours as desired. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

Online css generator

video: How to create a css file (Firefox or TB)

There is similar code for cards view.

Modified by sfhowes

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