I have created a userContent.css in
~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>.default/chrome/userContent.css

that looks like this:

body
{
backgroundColor: yellow;
}


and restarted firefox (3.5.12 - FC12) but it does nothing.

What am i doing wrong?
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On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I have created a userContent.css in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>.default/chrome/userContent.css
>
> that looks like this:
>
> body
> {
> backgroundColor: yellow;
> }
>
>
> and restarted firefox (3.5.12 - FC12) but it does nothing.
>
> What am i doing wrong?

A syntax error, and (once corrected) would only be applied to pages that
don't have any styling rules, already. If you want to force an
overriding style, you need to add an "!important" clause, before the
semi-colon.

e.g. body {background-color: yellow !important;}

Don't forget to set the foreground colour, as well.

e.g. body {
color: black;
background-color: yellow;
}

You can, in this case, abbreviate background-color down to just
background. Which would, also, then override any background image that
the site might have.

To see what CSS is about, start here: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/
CSS2 (probably) being the version with the most support on most
browsers. CSS3 is still very new, and isn't going to work (as expected)
when people browse a site with an old browser, as many people still do.

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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> writes:

Tim> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have created a userContent.css in
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>.default/chrome/userContent.css
>>
>> that looks like this:
>>
>> body { backgroundColor: yellow;
>> }
>>
>>
>> and restarted firefox (3.5.12 - FC12) but it does nothing.
>>
>> What am i doing wrong?

Tim> A syntax error

What's the syntax error?

Tim> If you want, and (once corrected) would only be applied to
Tim> pages that don't have any styling rules, already.
Tim> to force an overriding style, you need to add an "!important"
Tim> clause, before the semi-colon.

I originally had the ! important, but I removed it from
the example to keep things simple. The example doesn't even work on a
page that has no style rules.
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>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <colin@colina.demon.co.uk> writes:

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> writes:
Tim> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>> I have created a userContent.css in
>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>.default/chrome/userContent.css
>>>
>>> that looks like this:
>>>
>>> body { backgroundColor: yellow;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> and restarted firefox (3.5.12 - FC12) but it does nothing.
>>>
>>> What am i doing wrong?

Tim> A syntax error

Colin> What's the syntax error?

never mind. I found the W3C CSS validator.
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On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:58 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> What's the syntax error?

Compare your sample "backgroundColor" versus mine "background-color".

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