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mozillaZine: Creating a Mozilla Skin, pt. 2 – The Menubar

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 4, 2000

“Let’s get started and style our first bit of the Navigator
interface – the menu. Unfortunately, a lot of this will be lost on
Mac developers, because Mozilla utilizes the native Mac menu.
However, it’s the easiest thing for us to start skinning, so we
will start with it.”

“To learn how to style the menubar, the only hints we have to go
on are that it’s a “menubar” which has an id of “main-menubar”. How
do we determine what this means? Well, in an ideal world, we’d
have a ton of documentation on how to skin Mozilla. This isn’t the
case yet. So, we have to determine for ourselves what to do. For
the menubar, I’ll lead you through the process that I used to find
the information I needed. You can use this same process in your own
endeavors.

“The best way to start is to do a search of the chrome directory
for keywords. In this case, let’s first search the chrome directory
for “main-menubar”.”

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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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