Choosing your preferred colours in your browser - Netscape
To choose your own preferred colours:
- Open the Edit menu by clicking with the mouse or press Alt+E
- Click on preferences or press E
- Click on, or use the arrow keys to select, the Colors heading underneath the Appearance category. If you cannot see the Colors heading, you may need to expand the Appearance category. Do this by either double clicking on Appearance, or selecting Appearance with the arrow keys and pressing the right arrow key. (see fig 1)
Fig 1 - Choose to have your Windows colour scheme reflected by Tabbing to the Use System Colors option and pressing space to select it, or click it with the mouse.
- Click on the Text or Background color option and choose an alternative color, or press Tab until the Text or Background color box is highlighted, press the space bar, use the arrow keys to choose an alternative colour and press space to confirm this colour.
- Press Enter to return to Netscape.
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Some websites have "hard-coded" their text and background colours and as a consequence these websites will not reflect the changes you have just made. If you would like your preferences to be reflected on the other sites you visit please follow these steps:
- Open the Edit menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+E
- Press E or click on Preferences to bring up the preferences dialog box.
- Click on, or use the arrow keys to select the Colors heading underneath the Appearance category. If you cannot see the Colors heading, you may need to expand the Appearance category. Do this by either double clicking on Appearance, or selecting Appearance with the arrow keys and pressing the right arrow key. (See fig 1)
- Use the mouse or press Tab to select the options labelled Use my chosen colours, ignoring the colours and background images specified and press space to select this option.
- Press Enter to return to the page you were viewing.