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Thursday, December 27, 2001 by rr cc | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
call me thick but how do you stop certain skins over-riding explorer / app / internet explorer backgrounds. eg with the organic xp skin when I go to certain websites they look horrendous as they probably have "transparent" backgrounds which are changed to light brown with this skin.
DavidK
Reply #2 Friday, December 28, 2001 2:37 AM
Reply #2 Friday, December 28, 2001 2:37 AM
What you're describing is the windows color settings in Display/Properties/Appearance. The website changing its background color means the site has no background color specified. Usually that is not intentional, just laziness on the part of the website designer.
You can load a WB skin, then save the color settings in the display/properties/appearance dialog after changing the "window" color setting to your choice. Then uncheck the "apply the skins color setting" in the WB advanced settings dialog. Sounds like a lot of work but it just takes a few seconds. I do this if there's a skin I like to use but want to change a few of the colors.
In WB 3 you can over-ride a skin's color setting right from the skin chooser dialog but I'm not sure how it works... that might be an easier method.
You can load a WB skin, then save the color settings in the display/properties/appearance dialog after changing the "window" color setting to your choice. Then uncheck the "apply the skins color setting" in the WB advanced settings dialog. Sounds like a lot of work but it just takes a few seconds. I do this if there's a skin I like to use but want to change a few of the colors.
In WB 3 you can over-ride a skin's color setting right from the skin chooser dialog but I'm not sure how it works... that might be an easier method.
paxx
Reply #3 Friday, December 28, 2001 6:30 AM
Reply #3 Friday, December 28, 2001 6:30 AM
If that's your only issue, then I suggest instead of changing WB settings, that you change Internet Explorer's settings:
Tools menu / Internet Options / Colors; then uncheck "Use Windows Colors" and choose the color you want for the background color. Usually Webmasters that forget to specify the background color have their own background set to white.
I purposely set mine to bright pink especially so I NEVER forget to specify a background color on my web sites.
Tools menu / Internet Options / Colors; then uncheck "Use Windows Colors" and choose the color you want for the background color. Usually Webmasters that forget to specify the background color have their own background set to white.
I purposely set mine to bright pink especially so I NEVER forget to specify a background color on my web sites.
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Reply #1 Friday, December 28, 2001 12:37 AM
You might try opening wbconfig, the "windowblinds" button on the skin tab. Uncheck the Skin Windows Backgrounds boxes. You can also go into IE, go to Tools / Colors and define a background color for IE. Hopefully that should help you out with your problem. If not post again.