Skinning GMail with a Custom Stylesheet

Saturday, Oct. 9 2004 | Author: Scrivs

Love GMail, but hate the look of it? Well do something about it and create your own stylesheet so that you can have a more enjoyable experience. That’s what Mihai over at Persistent.info shows us how to do.

The quick instructions include:

Install the URLid Mozilla/Firefox extension.
Download this CSS file.
Locate your profile folder and the chrome folder within that.
Copy the downloaded CSS file to the chrome folder and rename it to userContent.css (if you already have such a file, you will have to merge the two).
Restart Firefox.
Visit Gmail.

Good stuff.

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8 Responses for "Skinning GMail with a Custom Stylesheet"

John Hoke

October 9th, 2004 at 10:55 pm
1

Scrivs,
I tried to do this, but the CSS File link above is not working …

-John
Scrivs

October 10th, 2004 at 3:52 am
2

Sorry about that. Go to the site and use his links instead. I will have to correct these tomorrow because I don’t have the css file on my server so therefore the link doesn’t work.

Sorry about that John.
John Hoke

October 10th, 2004 at 8:22 am
3

Scrivs,

No worries… Already did :)

Was more of a heads up to let you know something went BORK

-j
Netaku

October 11th, 2004 at 4:45 pm
4

Awesome; I tweaked the css a bit and now Gmail has the exact colorscheme I want.
The Boss

October 24th, 2004 at 3:53 am
5

It’s nice, but I wish I new the classes for the compose mail box. I have it how I want, but that compose box is still blue.
Steve

November 10th, 2004 at 9:24 pm
6

Hey I looked at your pic at Deviantart…

where can I download this CSS file

-Steve
Steve

November 10th, 2004 at 9:27 pm
7

Ahh I’m sorry I meant to talk to netaku about his skin.
gb

March 1st, 2005 at 2:34 pm
8

I am building a site on this very subject

http://www.skingmail.com