How to change Opera's source search highlighting color?

Opera offers brilliant incremental search while searching ona website but when it comes to source searching ( Right button click -> Source -> Search ) it is not so beautiful.

By default : when you search for a word in Source it highlights with nearly transparent grey color which is really hard to distinguish from normal text.

Does anyone know how to change this - the highlight color ?

P.S. I am using 11.61, build 1250

Patryk

Posted 2012-02-18T12:23:52.043

Reputation: 1 129

Answers

Unpack and open file "skin.ini" from your current skin pack: opera:config#UserPrefs|ButtonSet Standard path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\skin\standard_skin.zip\skin.ini
Close Opera.
In [Generic] add Selected Text bgcolor nofocus = #your hex color for example #F0FF00

Example of skin.ini

Save and pack it back to standard_skin.zip and launch Opera

zielak

Posted 2012-02-18T12:23:52.043

Reputation: 161

hmmm.. somehow this does not work for me :/ – Patryk – 2012-02-19T08:20:49.237

@Patryk It works fine for me (Opera 11.61 @ Win XP, default skin). Could you upload your skin.ini? I'll check it. – zielak – 2012-02-20T17:35:40.247

I use the same verison as you and Win 7 link to pastebin and I keep my skin in C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\skin\standard_skin.zip

– Patryk – 2012-02-20T18:12:51.760

1You have Selected Text background color nofocus instead Selected Text bgcolor nofocus – zielak – 2012-02-20T19:22:28.190

I have tried this before but somehow didn't work and now when I changed it back to bgcolor it works. Thanks! – Patryk – 2012-02-20T20:45:25.777

I suggest to use Preferences > Programs > Advanced > Choose application for viweing source and choose a feature-rich app (Like notpade++) for source viewing instead of manually changing colors.

PHPst

Posted 2012-02-18T12:23:52.043

Reputation: 3 466