Make the Whole Web Look Better with Stylish | Linux Today

Make the Whole Web Look Better with Stylish

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2007

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“Most Firefox users are familiar with the Greasemonkey
extension, a powerful tool that lets you enhance your browsing
experience by rewriting HTML pages and JavaScript on the client
side. The Stylish extension gives you that same level of control
over Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unlike JavaScript, altering a
page’s CSS cannot change its functionality–but it can greatly
enrich its usability.

“Stylish builds on Firefox’s User Styles feature, which lets you
override the CSS rules of any or all pages you visit. You can
manually add CSS rules to Firefox’s userContent.css file, including
assigning specific rules to URLs that match a given pattern.
Stylish provides you with a simple point-and-click way to do the
same thing, and a nice interface with which to keep track of the
styles you have selected…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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