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How can I change the background and text color of the selected email in TB 115?

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I have noticed that most of my css no longer works in TB 115.

How can I change the background and text color of the selected email in TB 115?

I have noticed that most of my css no longer works in TB 115. How can I change the background and text color of the selected email in TB 115?

Chosen solution

Found it.

/* Message Pane - Hover Message background-color */ tr:hover {

background-color: lightblue  !important;

}

/* Message Pane - Selected Message background-color */ tr.selected {

background-color: yellow  !important;

}

Note: Hover >>> tr + semicolon Selected >>> tr + dot (No idea why)

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Still working on this new code as well. Try this:

/* Message Pane - Hover Message background/foreground-color */ tr:hover {

 background-color: lightgrey  !important;

}

/* Message Pane - Selected Message background/foreground-color */ tr.selected {

 background-color: #29116e  !important;

}

Sorry, but it doesn't work in my userChrome.css (TB 115.2.2)

Still haven't found out how to change the background color and text color of selected message

Try this:

@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

html|tr[is="thread-row"].selected {
  color: navy !important;
  background-color: orange !important; 
}


To change the colour on hover:

html|tr[is="thread-row"]:hover {
  color: navy !important;
  background-color: lightgrey !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.

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It still doesn't work.

Chosen Solution

Found it.

/* Message Pane - Hover Message background-color */ tr:hover {

background-color: lightblue  !important;

}

/* Message Pane - Selected Message background-color */ tr.selected {

background-color: yellow  !important;

}

Note: Hover >>> tr + semicolon Selected >>> tr + dot (No idea why)

Modified by reevuur