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Dec 30, 2005 28 Replies
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Seeing as you're a Thunderbird user, you might be interested in the following tip to emphasise quoting by setting increasingly dark backgrounds for the quoted levels in addition to the usual colour bars in the margin.

Add the following

blockquote[type=cite] { color: navy !important; background-color: RGB(245,245,245) !important; border-right: 0px !important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote { color: maroon !important; background-color: RGB(235,235,235) !important; border-right: 0px !important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote { color: green !important; background-color: RGB(225,225,225) !important; border-right: 0px !important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote { color: purple !important; background-color: RGB(215,215,215) !important; border-right: 0px !important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote { color: teal !important; background-color: RGB(205,205,205) !important; border-right: 0px !important; }

to your %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\Default\xxxxxxxx.slt\Chrome\UserContent.css file.

Note that %APPDATA% will usually be C:\Documents and Settings\YourName, and xxxxxxxx is a random string.

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Is there a way to get rid of the quotes altogether? Well, maybe just keep the most recent

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You could try setting the CSS property on the level(s) you want to hide to be "display: none"

e.g.

blockquote[type=cite] { color: navy !important; background-color: RGB(245,245,245) !important; border-right: 0px !important; }

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote { display: none !important; }

If you're lucky that would also catch all deeper nesting levels too, as you can tell I haven't tried, if it doesn't catch the deeper levels add all the "blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote" nestings as deep as you want ....

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Thanks for the info, but I don't seem to have a UserContent.css file, and the chrome directory is empty.

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That's OK, the file doesn't normally exist, just create it with notepad

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Thanks. I'll give that a go

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In article , john Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:18:02 writes

Cow Gum

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Oh! Cow Gum!! Can it still be bought?

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In article , Chris Bacon Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:03:59 writes

Seems like not by that name but there is a replacement - have a Google.

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