A rarely used CSS property that can be very useful given the right circumstances is the table-layout property. It has great rendering speed benefit when used properly. Obviously this will only apply to HTML <table>s, which I know none of you would EVER overuse. Tables are not totally evil, they have their proper implementations and their really, really bad ones. OK, on to the code:

It’s been awhile since we tweaked our Firefox chrome, and it’s about time we get to hack Mozilla’s wonderful email client Thunderbird.

In this post I’ll give you the necessary tools to change the look of Thunderbird and give you some suggestions (and code, of course :) to help you along the way. First, let me give credit to Twister MC’s wonderful post that I will be using as a reference for the label coloring scripts below. OK, let’s get started!

To start off we are going to need to setup our userChrome.css file for Thunderbird. Here are the instructions for that. We just basically need to create a chrome directory in our Thunderbird profile with a userChrome.css file in it. Another note here is that you can create a Stylish script using the Stylish Add-on for Thunderbird and putting these CSS snippets in there. Does Stylish have any limitations here? Let me know in the comments if so.

I have been featured on the David Walsh Blog with a post telling you how to Change Text Size On Click With Javascript. My code and explanation is there, but I do have a nice sample of the script in action.