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HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

If you use a dark GTK theme, by now you've noticed that FF3 is supposed to take your GTK elements and put them into webpage forms.  Unfortunately, white pages and dark forms are pretty ugly.  In FF2, this was easy to fix with a nice CSS file.  In FF3, they've made it a smidge more difficult.

Note that it's probably still very easy to fix with a CSS file, but I don't know how.  The following method DOES work, though.

What I've done:

I've found a way to modify firefox's forms.css file so that the old FF2 tricks still work completely.

What I'm going to show you:

First, the new forms.css file.  If that's all you need, go on your merry way.  After this, I'm going to show you my favourite way of fixing FF2 forms, and what it looks like when you're done.

Steps:

1) Find wherever your forms.css file is stored.  Back it up!

Mine's in /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox3/res, you might find it in /usr/lib/mozilla/firefox3/res or something similar.  Look for a directory called "res."

2) Change it to this:

/* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
 * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
 * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
 *
 * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
 * License.
 *
 * The Original Code is mozilla.org code.
 *
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
 * Netscape Communications Corporation.
 * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 1998
 * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *
 * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
 * either of the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"),
 * or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
 * in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
 * of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
 * under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to
 * use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
 * decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
 * and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete
 * the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
 * the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
 *
 * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */

/** 
  Styles for old GFX form widgets
 **/ 
 

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); /* set default namespace to HTML */
@namespace xul url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

*|*::-moz-fieldset-content {
  display: block;
  height: 100%;   /* Need this so percentage heights of kids work right */
}

/* miscellaneous form elements */

legend {
  padding-left: 2px;
  padding-right: 2px;
  border: none;
  position: static ! important;
  float: none ! important;
  width: -moz-fit-content ! important;
  min-width: 0 ! important;
  max-width: none ! important;
  height: auto ! important;
  min-height: 0 ! important;
  max-height: none ! important;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

fieldset {
  display: block;
  margin-left: 2px;
  margin-right: 2px;
  padding: 0.35em 0.625em 0.75em;
  border: 2px groove ThreeDFace;
}

label {
  cursor: default;
}

/* default inputs, text inputs, and selects */

/* Note: Values in nsNativeTheme IsWidgetStyled function 
   need to match textfield background/border values here */

input {
  /* The sum of border-top, border-bottom, padding-top, padding-bottom
     must be the same here, for buttons, and for <select> (including its
     internal padding magic) */
  padding: 1px 0 1px 0;
  /*border: 2px inset ThreeDFace;
  background-color: -moz-Field;*/
  color: -moz-FieldText;
  font: -moz-field;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  line-height: normal !important;
  text-align: start;
  text-transform: none;
  word-spacing: normal;
  letter-spacing: normal;
  cursor: text;
  -moz-binding: url("chrome://global/content/platformHTMLBindings.xml#inputFields");
  text-indent: 0;
  -moz-user-select: text;
}

input > .anonymous-div {
  white-space: pre;
}

textarea {
  margin: 1px 0 1px 0;
  border: 2px inset ThreeDFace;
  background-color: -moz-Field;
  color: -moz-FieldText;
  font: medium -moz-fixed;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  text-align: start;
  text-transform: none;
  word-spacing: normal;
  letter-spacing: normal;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  cursor: text;
  -moz-binding: url("chrome://global/content/platformHTMLBindings.xml#textAreas");
  text-indent: 0;
  -moz-user-select: text;
}

textarea > scrollbar {
  cursor: default;
}

textarea > .anonymous-div,
input > .anonymous-div {
  overflow: auto;
  border: 0px !important;
  /* The 1px horizontal padding is for parity with Win/IE */
  padding: 0px 1px;
  margin: 0px;
  /* XXXldb I'm not sure if we really want the 'text-decoration: inherit',
     but it's needed to make 'text-decoration' "work" on text inputs. */
  text-decoration: inherit;
  ime-mode: inherit;
}

input:-moz-read-write,
textarea:-moz-read-write {
  -moz-user-modify: read-write !important;
}

select {
  margin: 0;
  border-color: ThreeDFace;
  background-color: -moz-Field;
  color: -moz-FieldText;
  font: -moz-list;
  line-height: normal !important;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
  text-align: start; 
  cursor: default;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  border-width: 2px;
  border-style: inset;
  text-indent: 0;
  overflow: -moz-hidden-unscrollable;
}

/* Need the "select[size][multiple]" selector to override the settings on
   'select[size="1"]', eg if one has <select size="1" multiple> */
   
select[size],
select[multiple],
select[size][multiple] {
  /* Different alignment and padding for listbox vs combobox */
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  padding: 1px 0 1px 0;
}

select[size="0"],
select[size="1"] {
  /* Except this is not a listbox */
  vertical-align: baseline;
  padding: 0;
}

select > input[type="button"] {
  width: 12px;
  height: 12px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  position: static !important;
  background-image: url("arrow.gif") !important; 
  background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
  background-position: center !important;

  /* Make sure to size correctly if the combobox has a non-auto height. */
  height: 100% ! important;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box ! important;

  /*
    Make sure to align properly with the display frame.  Note that we
    want the baseline of the combobox to match the baseline of the
    display frame, so the dropmarker is what gets the vertical-align.
  */
  vertical-align: top !important;
}

select > input[type="button"]:active {
  background-image: url("arrowd.gif") !important; 
}

select:empty {
  width: 2.5em;
}

*|*::-moz-display-comboboxcontrol-frame {
  overflow: -moz-hidden-unscrollable;
  /* This top/bottom padding plus the combobox top/bottom border need to
     add up to the top/bottom borderpadding of text inputs and buttons */ 
  padding-top: 1px;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
  -moz-padding-start: 4px;
  -moz-padding-end: 0;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: inherit;
  white-space: nowrap;
  text-align: inherit;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  /* Make sure to size correctly if the combobox has a non-auto height. */
  height: 100% ! important;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box ! important;
}

select::-moz-scrolled-content {
  display: block !important;
}

option {
  display: block;
  float: none !important;
  position: static !important;
  min-height: 1em;
  line-height: normal !important;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  text-indent: 0;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
}

select > option {
  padding-top : 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  -moz-padding-start: 3px;
  -moz-padding-end: 5px;
}

option:checked {
  background-color: -moz-html-cellhighlight !important;
  color: -moz-html-cellhighlighttext !important;
}

select:focus > option:checked,
select:focus > optgroup > option:checked {
  background-color: Highlight ! important;
  color: HighlightText ! important;
}

optgroup {
  display: block;
  float: none !important;
  position: static !important;
  font: -moz-list;
  line-height: normal !important;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: inherit;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  text-indent: 0;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
}

optgroup > option {
  -moz-padding-start: 20px;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
}

optgroup:before {
  display: block;
  content: attr(label);
}

*|*::-moz-dropdown-list {
  z-index: 2147483647;
  background-color: inherit;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  position: static !important;
  float: none !important;

  /*
   * We can't change the padding here, because that would affect our
   * intrinsic width, since we scroll.  But at the same time, we want
   * to make sure that our left border+padding matches the left
   * border+padding of a combobox so that our scrollbar will line up
   * with the dropmarker.  So set our left border to 2px.
   */
  border: 1px outset black !important;
  border-left-width: 2px ! important;
} 

input[disabled],
textarea[disabled],
option[disabled],
optgroup[disabled],
select[disabled] {
  -moz-user-input: disabled;
  -moz-user-focus: ignore;
  color: GrayText;
  background-color: ThreeDFace;
  cursor: inherit;
}

option[disabled],
optgroup[disabled] {
  background-color: transparent;
}

/* hidden inputs */
input[type="hidden"] {
  display: none;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  cursor: auto;
  -moz-user-focus: ignore;
  -moz-binding: none;
}

/* image buttons */
input[type="image"] {
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  background-color: transparent;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: small;
  cursor: pointer;
  -moz-binding: none;
}

input[type="image"][disabled] {
  cursor: inherit;
}

input[type="image"]:focus {
  /* Don't specify the outline-color, we should always use initial value. */
  outline: 1px dotted;
}

/* file selector */
input[type="file"] {
  white-space: nowrap;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-binding: none;

  padding: 0 !important;
  border-style: none !important;
}

input[type="file"] > input[type="text"] {
  border-color: inherit;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  letter-spacing: inherit;
}

/* button part of file selector */
input[type="file"] > input[type="button"] {
  height: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  letter-spacing: inherit;
}

/* radio buttons */
input[type="radio"] {
  width: 13px;
  height: 13px;
  margin: 3px 3px 0px 5px;
  padding: 0 !important;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-binding: none;

  -moz-border-radius: 100% !important;
}

/* check boxes */
input[type="checkbox"] {
  width: 13px;
  height: 13px;
  margin: 3px 3px 3px 4px;
  padding: 0 !important;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-binding: none;

  -moz-border-radius: 0 !important;
}

/* common features of radio buttons and check boxes */

input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
  /* same colors as |input| rule, but |!important| this time. */
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  background-color: -moz-Field /* ! important */;
  color: -moz-FieldText /* ! important */;
  border: 2px inset ThreeDFace /* ! important */;
}

input[type="radio"][disabled],
input[type="radio"][disabled]:active,
input[type="radio"][disabled]:hover,
input[type="radio"][disabled]:hover:active,
input[type="checkbox"][disabled],
input[type="checkbox"][disabled]:active,
input[type="checkbox"][disabled]:hover,
input[type="checkbox"][disabled]:hover:active {
  padding: 1px;
  border: 1px inset ThreeDShadow /* ! important */;
  /* same as above, but !important */
  color: GrayText /* ! important */;
  background-color: ThreeDFace /* ! important */;
  cursor: inherit; 
}

input[type="checkbox"]:focus,
input[type="radio"]:focus {
  border-style: groove !important;
}

input[type="checkbox"]:hover:active,
input[type="radio"]:hover:active {
  background-color: ThreeDFace /* ! important */;
  border-style: inset !important;
}

*|*::-moz-radio {
  width: 4px;
  height: 4px;
  background-color: -moz-FieldText /* ! important */;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
}

/* buttons */

/* Note: Values in nsNativeTheme IsWidgetStyled function 
   need to match button background/border values here */

button, 
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] { 
  /* The sum of border-top, border-bottom, padding-top, padding-bottom
     must be the same here, for text inputs, and for <select>.  For
     buttons, make sure to include the -moz-focus-inner border/padding. */
  padding: 0px 6px 0px 6px;
/*  border: 2px outset ButtonFace;
  background-color: ButtonFace; */
  color: ButtonText; 
  font: -moz-button;
  line-height: normal !important;
  white-space: pre;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -moz-binding: none;
  text-align: center;
}

button {
  /* Buttons should lay out like "normal" html, mostly */
  white-space: inherit;
  text-indent: 0;
}

*|*::-moz-button-content {
  display: block;
}

button:hover,
input[type="reset"]:hover,
input[type="button"]:hover,
input[type="submit"]:hover {
  background-color: -moz-buttonhoverface;
  color: -moz-buttonhovertext;
}

button:active:hover,
input[type="reset"]:active:hover,
input[type="button"]:active:hover,
input[type="submit"]:active:hover {
  padding: 0px 5px 0px 7px;
  border-style: inset;
  background-color: ButtonFace;
  color: ButtonText;
}

button::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="reset"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="submit"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="file"] > input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner {
  padding: 0px 2px 0px 2px;
  border: 1px dotted transparent;
}

button:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="reset"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="button"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="submit"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="file"] > input[type="button"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner {
  border-color: ButtonText;
}

button[disabled]:active, button[disabled],
input[type="reset"][disabled]:active,
input[type="reset"][disabled],
input[type="button"][disabled]:active,
input[type="button"][disabled],
select[disabled] > input[type="button"],
select[disabled] > input[type="button"]:active,
input[type="submit"][disabled]:active,
input[type="submit"][disabled] {
  /* The sum of border-top, border-bottom, padding-top, padding-bottom
     must be the same here and for text inputs */
  padding: 0px 6px 0px 6px;
  border: 2px outset ButtonFace;
  color: GrayText;
  cursor: inherit; 
}

 /*
  * Make form controls inherit 'unicode-bidi' transparently as required by
  *  their various anonymous descendants and pseudo-elements:
  *
  * <textarea> and <input type="text">:
  *  inherit into the XULScroll frame with class 'anonymous-div' which is a
  *  child of the text control.
  *
  * Buttons (either <button>, <input type="submit">, <input type="button">
  *          or <input type="reset">)
  *  inherit into the ':-moz-button-content' pseudo-element.
  *
  * <select>:
  *  inherit into the ':-moz-display-comboboxcontrol-frame' pseudo-element and
  *  the <optgroup>'s ':before' pseudo-element, which is where the label of
  *  the <optgroup> gets displayed. The <option>s don't use anonymous boxes,
  *  so they need no special rules.
  */
textarea > .anonymous-div,
input > .anonymous-div,
*|*::-moz-button-content,
*|*::-moz-display-comboboxcontrol-frame,
optgroup:before {
  unicode-bidi: inherit;
}

 /*
  * Force the text control child of file input controls to have left-to-right
  * directionality. Otherwise filenames containing right-to-left characters
  * will be reordered with chaotic results.
  */
input[type="file"] > input[type="text"] {
  direction: ltr !important;
  text-align: inherit;
}

@media print {
  input, textarea, select, button {
    -moz-user-input: none !important;
  }

  input[type="file"] { height: 2em; }
}

Basically what I've done is twofold: Turned off most GTK-style widgets, and made certain other widget-modifications not !important.  This allows other decorations, such as the one below, to work.

3) Install stylish.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2108

4) Install the Nice Firefox Forms userstyle, and enable it.

http://userstyles.org/styles/2456

Don't pay attention to his guide to modifying forms.css.  I've already applied them, and his guide is out of date, anyway.

5) Make a new style.  Call it "Fix Dark Textboxes" or something similar.  Put the following in the code box:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix(http), url-prefix(file) {

pre, input, textarea {
   color: black !important;
   background: white !important;
   border-left-color: gray !important;
   border-right-color: gray !important;
   border-top-color: gray !important;
   border-bottom-color: gray !important;
}

/* Uncomment this part if you also want to apply to forms and the like. */
input:not([type="button"]):not([type="checkbox"])
:not([type="submit"]):not([type="reset"]), 
select {
    color: black !important;
    border-left-color: gray !important;
    border-right-color: gray !important;
    border-top-color: gray !important;
    border-bottom-color: gray !important;
}
 
}

That just changes everything to black on white.

Enable your freshly made style.

6) Enjoy!

Here's what it looks like:

If you have any questions, I probably can't answer them, because my method of discovery involved deleting large swaths of my forms.css file and seeing what broke.  Someone who is more knowledgeable in the vile, concentrated evil that is CSS will be better able to answer your questions.  But I'll try anyway.

Last edited by buttons (2008-06-18 14:31:44)

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Lazer

Banned

Registered: 2007-08-02

Posts: 111

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Works pretty well except for a couple of bugs:

There is some special type of button that is on the userstyles page that looks not nice: http://i27.tinypic.com/5nocxf.png

On webpages that require you to input a file (like http://www.tinypic.com ) it seems very broken. I think its the input=["file"] type.

Thanks for this.

Last edited by Lazer (2008-06-18 16:41:49)

buttons

Member

From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Bah!  WHO WOULD DARE USE FILE INPUTS.  New forms.css:

/* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
 * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
 * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
 *
 * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
 * License.
 *
 * The Original Code is mozilla.org code.
 *
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
 * Netscape Communications Corporation.
 * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 1998
 * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *
 * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
 * either of the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"),
 * or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
 * in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
 * of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
 * under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to
 * use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
 * decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
 * and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete
 * the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
 * the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
 *
 * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */

/** 
  Styles for old GFX form widgets
 **/ 
 

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); /* set default namespace to HTML */
@namespace xul url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

*|*::-moz-fieldset-content {
  display: block;
  height: 100%;   /* Need this so percentage heights of kids work right */
}

/* miscellaneous form elements */

legend {
  padding-left: 2px;
  padding-right: 2px;
  border: none;
  position: static ! important;
  float: none ! important;
  width: -moz-fit-content ! important;
  min-width: 0 ! important;
  max-width: none ! important;
  height: auto ! important;
  min-height: 0 ! important;
  max-height: none ! important;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

fieldset {
  display: block;
  margin-left: 2px;
  margin-right: 2px;
  padding: 0.35em 0.625em 0.75em;
  border: 2px groove ThreeDFace;
}

label {
  cursor: default;
}

/* default inputs, text inputs, and selects */

/* Note: Values in nsNativeTheme IsWidgetStyled function 
   need to match textfield background/border values here */

input {
  /* The sum of border-top, border-bottom, padding-top, padding-bottom
     must be the same here, for buttons, and for <select> (including its
     internal padding magic) */
  padding: 1px 0 1px 0;
  /*border: 2px inset ThreeDFace;
  background-color: -moz-Field;*/
  color: -moz-FieldText;
  font: -moz-field;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  line-height: normal !important;
  text-align: start;
  text-transform: none;
  word-spacing: normal;
  letter-spacing: normal;
  cursor: text;
  -moz-binding: url("chrome://global/content/platformHTMLBindings.xml#inputFields");
  text-indent: 0;
  -moz-user-select: text;
}

input > .anonymous-div {
  white-space: pre;
}

textarea {
  margin: 1px 0 1px 0;
  border: 2px inset ThreeDFace;
  background-color: -moz-Field;
  color: -moz-FieldText;
  font: medium -moz-fixed;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  text-align: start;
  text-transform: none;
  word-spacing: normal;
  letter-spacing: normal;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  cursor: text;
  -moz-binding: url("chrome://global/content/platformHTMLBindings.xml#textAreas");
  text-indent: 0;
  -moz-user-select: text;
}

textarea > scrollbar {
  cursor: default;
}

textarea > .anonymous-div,
input > .anonymous-div {
  overflow: auto;
  border: 0px !important;
  /* The 1px horizontal padding is for parity with Win/IE */
  padding: 0px 1px;
  margin: 0px;
  /* XXXldb I'm not sure if we really want the 'text-decoration: inherit',
     but it's needed to make 'text-decoration' "work" on text inputs. */
  text-decoration: inherit;
  ime-mode: inherit;
}

input:-moz-read-write,
textarea:-moz-read-write {
  -moz-user-modify: read-write !important;
}

select {
  margin: 0;
  border-color: ThreeDFace;
  background-color: -moz-Field;
  color: -moz-FieldText;
  font: -moz-list;
  line-height: normal !important;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
  text-align: start; 
  cursor: default;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  border-width: 2px;
  border-style: inset;
  text-indent: 0;
  overflow: -moz-hidden-unscrollable;
}

/* Need the "select[size][multiple]" selector to override the settings on
   'select[size="1"]', eg if one has <select size="1" multiple> */
   
select[size],
select[multiple],
select[size][multiple] {
  /* Different alignment and padding for listbox vs combobox */
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  padding: 1px 0 1px 0;
}

select[size="0"],
select[size="1"] {
  /* Except this is not a listbox */
  vertical-align: baseline;
  padding: 0;
}

select > input[type="button"] {
  width: 12px;
  height: 12px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  position: static !important;
  background-image: url("arrow.gif") !important; 
  background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
  background-position: center !important;

  /* Make sure to size correctly if the combobox has a non-auto height. */
  height: 100% ! important;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box ! important;

  /*
    Make sure to align properly with the display frame.  Note that we
    want the baseline of the combobox to match the baseline of the
    display frame, so the dropmarker is what gets the vertical-align.
  */
  vertical-align: top !important;
}

select > input[type="button"]:active {
  background-image: url("arrowd.gif") !important; 
}

select:empty {
  width: 2.5em;
}

*|*::-moz-display-comboboxcontrol-frame {
  overflow: -moz-hidden-unscrollable;
  /* This top/bottom padding plus the combobox top/bottom border need to
     add up to the top/bottom borderpadding of text inputs and buttons */ 
  padding-top: 1px;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
  -moz-padding-start: 4px;
  -moz-padding-end: 0;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: inherit;
  white-space: nowrap;
  text-align: inherit;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  /* Make sure to size correctly if the combobox has a non-auto height. */
  height: 100% ! important;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box ! important;
}

select::-moz-scrolled-content {
  display: block !important;
}

option {
  display: block;
  float: none !important;
  position: static !important;
  min-height: 1em;
  line-height: normal !important;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  text-indent: 0;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
}

select > option {
  padding-top : 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  -moz-padding-start: 3px;
  -moz-padding-end: 5px;
}

option:checked {
  background-color: -moz-html-cellhighlight !important;
  color: -moz-html-cellhighlighttext !important;
}

select:focus > option:checked,
select:focus > optgroup > option:checked {
  background-color: Highlight ! important;
  color: HighlightText ! important;
}

optgroup {
  display: block;
  float: none !important;
  position: static !important;
  font: -moz-list;
  line-height: normal !important;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: inherit;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  text-indent: 0;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
}

optgroup > option {
  -moz-padding-start: 20px;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
}

optgroup:before {
  display: block;
  content: attr(label);
}

*|*::-moz-dropdown-list {
  z-index: 2147483647;
  background-color: inherit;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  position: static !important;
  float: none !important;

  /*
   * We can't change the padding here, because that would affect our
   * intrinsic width, since we scroll.  But at the same time, we want
   * to make sure that our left border+padding matches the left
   * border+padding of a combobox so that our scrollbar will line up
   * with the dropmarker.  So set our left border to 2px.
   */
  border: 1px outset black !important;
  border-left-width: 2px ! important;
} 

input[disabled],
textarea[disabled],
option[disabled],
optgroup[disabled],
select[disabled] {
  -moz-user-input: disabled;
  -moz-user-focus: ignore;
  color: GrayText;
  background-color: ThreeDFace;
  cursor: inherit;
}

option[disabled],
optgroup[disabled] {
  background-color: transparent;
}

/* hidden inputs */
input[type="hidden"] {
  display: none;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  cursor: auto;
  -moz-user-focus: ignore;
  -moz-binding: none;
}

/* image buttons */
input[type="image"] {
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  background-color: transparent;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: small;
  cursor: pointer;
  -moz-binding: none;
}

input[type="image"][disabled] {
  cursor: inherit;
}

input[type="image"]:focus {
  /* Don't specify the outline-color, we should always use initial value. */
  outline: 1px dotted;
}

/* file selector */
input[type="file"] {
  white-space: nowrap;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-binding: none;

  padding: 0 !important;
  border-style: none !important;
}

input[type="file"] > input[type="text"] {
  border-color: gray;
  -moz-border-radius: 0 !important;
  border-top: 1px solid #616365;
  border-right: 1px solid #a0a3a5;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #bbbdbf;
  border-left: 1px solid #616365;
  color: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  letter-spacing: inherit;
}

/* button part of file selector */
input[type="file"] > input[type="button"] {
  height: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  letter-spacing: inherit;
}

/* radio buttons */
input[type="radio"] {
  width: 13px;
  height: 13px;
  margin: 3px 3px 0px 5px;
  padding: 0 !important;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-binding: none;

  -moz-border-radius: 100% !important;
}

/* check boxes */
input[type="checkbox"] {
  width: 13px;
  height: 13px;
  margin: 3px 3px 3px 4px;
  padding: 0 !important;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-binding: none;

  -moz-border-radius: 0 !important;
}

/* common features of radio buttons and check boxes */

input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
  /* same colors as |input| rule, but |!important| this time. */
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  background-color: -moz-Field /* ! important */;
  color: -moz-FieldText /* ! important */;
  border: 2px inset ThreeDFace /* ! important */;
}

input[type="radio"][disabled],
input[type="radio"][disabled]:active,
input[type="radio"][disabled]:hover,
input[type="radio"][disabled]:hover:active,
input[type="checkbox"][disabled],
input[type="checkbox"][disabled]:active,
input[type="checkbox"][disabled]:hover,
input[type="checkbox"][disabled]:hover:active {
  padding: 1px;
  border: 1px inset ThreeDShadow /* ! important */;
  /* same as above, but !important */
  color: GrayText /* ! important */;
  background-color: ThreeDFace /* ! important */;
  cursor: inherit; 
}

input[type="checkbox"]:focus,
input[type="radio"]:focus {
  border-style: groove !important;
}

input[type="checkbox"]:hover:active,
input[type="radio"]:hover:active {
  background-color: ThreeDFace /* ! important */;
  border-style: inset !important;
}

*|*::-moz-radio {
  width: 4px;
  height: 4px;
  background-color: -moz-FieldText /* ! important */;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
}

/* buttons */

/* Note: Values in nsNativeTheme IsWidgetStyled function 
   need to match button background/border values here */

button, 
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] { 
  /* The sum of border-top, border-bottom, padding-top, padding-bottom
     must be the same here, for text inputs, and for <select>.  For
     buttons, make sure to include the -moz-focus-inner border/padding. */
  padding: 0px 6px 0px 6px;
/*  border: 2px outset ButtonFace;
  background-color: ButtonFace; */
  color: ButtonText; 
  font: -moz-button;
  line-height: normal !important;
  white-space: pre;
  cursor: default;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -moz-binding: none;
  text-align: center;
}

button {
  /* Buttons should lay out like "normal" html, mostly */
  white-space: inherit;
  text-indent: 0;
}

*|*::-moz-button-content {
  display: block;
}

button:hover,
input[type="reset"]:hover,
input[type="button"]:hover,
input[type="submit"]:hover {
  background-color: -moz-buttonhoverface;
  color: -moz-buttonhovertext;
}

button:active:hover,
input[type="reset"]:active:hover,
input[type="button"]:active:hover,
input[type="submit"]:active:hover {
  padding: 0px 5px 0px 7px;
  border-style: inset;
  background-color: ButtonFace;
  color: ButtonText;
}

button::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="reset"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="submit"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="file"] > input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner {
  padding: 0px 2px 0px 2px;
  border: 1px dotted transparent;
}

button:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="reset"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="button"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="submit"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="file"] > input[type="button"]:focus::-moz-focus-inner {
  border-color: ButtonText;
}

button[disabled]:active, button[disabled],
input[type="reset"][disabled]:active,
input[type="reset"][disabled],
input[type="button"][disabled]:active,
input[type="button"][disabled],
select[disabled] > input[type="button"],
select[disabled] > input[type="button"]:active,
input[type="submit"][disabled]:active,
input[type="submit"][disabled] {
  /* The sum of border-top, border-bottom, padding-top, padding-bottom
     must be the same here and for text inputs */
  padding: 0px 6px 0px 6px;
  border: 2px outset ButtonFace;
  color: GrayText;
  cursor: inherit; 
}

 /*
  * Make form controls inherit 'unicode-bidi' transparently as required by
  *  their various anonymous descendants and pseudo-elements:
  *
  * <textarea> and <input type="text">:
  *  inherit into the XULScroll frame with class 'anonymous-div' which is a
  *  child of the text control.
  *
  * Buttons (either <button>, <input type="submit">, <input type="button">
  *          or <input type="reset">)
  *  inherit into the ':-moz-button-content' pseudo-element.
  *
  * <select>:
  *  inherit into the ':-moz-display-comboboxcontrol-frame' pseudo-element and
  *  the <optgroup>'s ':before' pseudo-element, which is where the label of
  *  the <optgroup> gets displayed. The <option>s don't use anonymous boxes,
  *  so they need no special rules.
  */
textarea > .anonymous-div,
input > .anonymous-div,
*|*::-moz-button-content,
*|*::-moz-display-comboboxcontrol-frame,
optgroup:before {
  unicode-bidi: inherit;
}

 /*
  * Force the text control child of file input controls to have left-to-right
  * directionality. Otherwise filenames containing right-to-left characters
  * will be reordered with chaotic results.
  */
input[type="file"] > input[type="text"] {
  direction: ltr !important;
  text-align: inherit;
}

@media print {
  input, textarea, select, button {
    -moz-user-input: none !important;
  }

  input[type="file"] { height: 2em; }
}

Unfortunately I have no idea how to make it rounded like every other box.  It's totally ignoring the -moz-border-radius tag.

But you CAN see it now, and that's a big plus.

Oh..the button thing.  Crap.  That's still broke?

Edit the Nice Firefox Forms extension, find the following:

html button,
  html input[type="button"] {
      color: ButtonText;
  }

Change the bolded bit to this:

#1e1e1e !important

So that it looks like this:

html button,
  html input[type="button"] {
      color: #1e1e1e !important;
  }

Don't worry about updates killing this, this guy hasn't updated the theme since march last year.

Last edited by buttons (2008-06-18 17:19:20)

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madhatter

Member

From: Freudenstadt, Germany

Registered: 2004-09-01

Posts: 59

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

How about adding that to the Arch Wiki?
Also a more lazy way is, installing a dark firefox theme (e.g. NASA Night Launch) and run it with a bright GTK Theme ("GTK2_RC_FILES=gtkrc-of-a-bright-theme firefox3")

buttons

Member

From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

I just wanted to mention that if you've installed something that uses xulrunner 1.9, like firefox3-systemcairo, the location of forms.css is now /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/res

This is very useful because it ensures your changes will survive any updates to firefox.

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Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Hi, I used another solution, because I didn't like the 'nice form fields'. I copied the new version of forms.css (from Buttons, above) to my res-directory and instead of installing Stylish I put a new userContent.css in ~/.mozilla/<bla.bla>/chrome/ which I took from Ubuntu Forums:

input {
    border: 2px inset white;
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}

textarea {
    border: 2px inset white;
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}

select {
    border: 2px inset white;
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}
 
input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
    border: 2px inset white ! important;
    background-color: white ! important;
    color: ThreeDFace ! important;
}

*|*::-moz-radio {
    background-color: white;
}

button, 
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] { 
    border: 2px outset white;
    background-color: #eeeeee;
    color: black;
}

body {
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
    display: block;
    margin: 8px;
}

Now everything looks like this:

Frots

Member

Registered: 2008-10-02

Posts: 57

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

excellent!
Marcel mijn dank is groot   (thank you very much)

Roberth

Member

From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Could someone please post the the final forms.css here?

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Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

What do you mean? The newest one in this thread is located here (post #3 above).

Last edited by Marcel- (2008-12-09 02:33:57)

Roberth

Member

From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Well I cant get something right, I write this post without seeing what I write so dso please try to ignore the typos....

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs234&d=08501&f=2 … rot433.png

Last edited by Roberth (2008-12-09 03:02:57)

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Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Did you put a new userContent.css in your ~/.mozilla, as explained in this post?

I write this post without seeing what I write so dso please try to ignore the typos....

No problem, but how can you read my messages if you can't see what you do?

Roberth

Member

From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Did you put a new userContent.css in your ~/.mozilla, as explained in this post?

I write this post without seeing what I write so dso please try to ignore the typos....

No problem, but how can you read my messages if you can't see what you do?

I can see the pots but I can se anything in the field when I write.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs234&d=08502&f=2 … rot855.png

Last edited by Roberth (2008-12-09 09:47:33)

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Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Ah, now I understand.

But wait, you're using Vimperator. I can test when I'm home (which will be late, so don't expect a quick post), but perhaps you should put forms.css and userContent.css into another directory (possibly something like ~/.vimperator/[...]).

Roberth

Member

From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

But I dont understand why the userstyles don't work....

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Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

I tried to recreate your problem and it seems that you changed the wrong forms.css. On my filesystem, the one I should change resides in /usr/lib/firefox/res (Firefox 3.0.3 installed using AUR). As stated above, it should also work when changing forms.css in /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/res, but apparently, it doesn't anymore.

So change the file in your Firefox directory. Unfortunately, when you upgrade Firefox, you obviously will have to change forms.css again.

BTW, which GTK theme do you use? My screenshot above is shot using Nodoka Brave Dark, IIRC (using another theme nowadays, but changed back to test).

Last edited by Marcel- (2008-12-10 01:28:28)

arrowroot

Member

Registered: 2010-07-14

Posts: 1

Re: HOWTO: Firefox3 and Dark Themes

Hi, I used another solution, because I didn't like the 'nice form fields'. I copied the new version of forms.css (from Buttons, above) to my res-directory and instead of installing Stylish I put a new userContent.css in ~/.mozilla/<bla.bla>/chrome/ which I took from Ubuntu Forums:

input {
    border: 2px inset white;
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}

textarea {
    border: 2px inset white;
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}

select {
    border: 2px inset white;
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}
 
input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
    border: 2px inset white ! important;
    background-color: white ! important;
    color: ThreeDFace ! important;
}

*|*::-moz-radio {
    background-color: white;
}

button, 
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] { 
    border: 2px outset white;
    background-color: #eeeeee;
    color: black;
}

body {
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
    display: block;
    margin: 8px;
}

Now everything looks like this:

http://www.clz.let.uu.nl/0242888/dump/f … dark-t.png

this code doesn't seem to work in firefox 3.6.6
any thoughts on why?

Last edited by arrowroot (2010-07-15 23:41:48)