Changing mChat to suite my skin

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Changing mChat to suite my skin

Post by DannyG »

Evening all,

I've installed mChat on my current skin which is a light prosivler skin. I'm thing of installing a new skin soon but I'm installing all the mods on the new skin (dark). The mChat works fine on the dark skin but it doesnt match my skin how do I do this with out effecting the mchat on my current default skin

Current skin
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New skin (not set as default)
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Re: Changing mChat to suite my skin

Post by Steve »

open mchat/mchat_prosilver.css
find:

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div.mChatBG1 {
	background-color: #FBFBFB;
	padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;
	border-bottom: 1px dotted #DDDDDD;
	overflow: hidden;
}

div.mChatBG2 {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;
	border-bottom: 1px dotted #DDDDDD;
	overflow: hidden;
}
replace the background-color: #FBFBFB;#FFFFFF;
for the text
find:

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input.mChatText {
	cursor: text;
	width: 50%;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	border: 1px solid #B4BAC0;
	color: #333333;
change the color: #333333;
html colours : http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp
hope that helps a bit.