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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo

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Mar 31, 2007, 4:37:52 PM3/31/07
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When I hover my mouse over the Navigational buttons, the
tooltips are in green text on a blue background. How do I
change this? I'd like something like black text on a yellow
background.

Thanks

Grant

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David McRitchie

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Mar 31, 2007, 5:09:38 PM3/31/07
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"Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo" ...

> When I hover my mouse over the Navigational buttons, the
> tooltips are in green text on a blue background. How do I
> change this? I'd like something like black text on a yellow
> background.

There is something you haven't changed? In fact I see you
are going toward a much more conservative black on yellow;
almost like mine which is black on pale yellow background.

You might be able to control in Firefox only within userChrome.css
http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2006/03/02/ipox-hacks-bookmarks-bar

but this is where I changed (windows) Control Panel,
display, appearance,
item: Tooltip
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Nir

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Mar 30, 2007, 6:07:08 PM3/30/07
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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> When I hover my mouse over the Navigational buttons, the tooltips are
> in green text on a blue background. How do I change this? I'd like
> something like black text on a yellow background.
>
> Thanks
>
> Grant
>
most probably you are using a similar code in userChrome.css. if not ,
then put this code

tooltip
{
width: auto !important;
color: <color_code> !important;
}


Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo

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Apr 1, 2007, 12:26:57 AM4/1/07
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David McRitchie wrote:
> but this is where I changed (windows) Control Panel,
> display, appearance,
> item: Tooltip

I didn't know you could change the windows tooltips.
Learned something new today.

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo

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Apr 1, 2007, 12:27:40 AM4/1/07
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Nir wrote:
> most probably you are using a similar code in userChrome.css. if not ,
> then put this code
>
> tooltip
> {
> width: auto !important;
> color: <color_code> !important;
> }
>
>

Oh my, that was simple. So, I changed it to this and it
looks great. Thanks.

tooltip { color: darkblue !important;
background-color: rgb(240,240,255) !important;
font-weight: bold !important }

David McRitchie

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Apr 1, 2007, 10:51:03 AM4/1/07
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Peter Potamus wrote

> David McRitchie wrote:
> > but this is where I changed (windows) Control Panel,
> > display, appearance,
> > item: Tooltip
>
> I didn't know you could change the windows tooltips.
> Learned something new today.

Thanks that alleviates the my incorrect suggestion for Firefox.


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