Thread:Extension talk:Header Tabs/Override Skin Documentation/reply (9)

I have been playing with MW1.17 and HeaderTabs 0.8.2 as well. I have discovered that in MW1.17 HeaderTabs is not unsing any of the files in its \skins folder. This folder only exists for backwards compatibility using the extension with older MW versions. (So when using MW1.17 changing any of these files doesn't help). With MW1.17 Headertabs it uses JQuery and its standard stylesheets that are distributed with MW (folder resources\jquery.ui\themes\). If you use the vector stylesheet it uses the vector folder.

To change the look and feel of the header tabs you need to add stylesheet elements in mediawiki:common.css or mediawiki:vector.css. For example:

To increase the font size, place in common.css:
 * 1) headertabs { font-size:0.95em; }

Another example: to put a border around the tabs, place in vector.css: .ui-widget-content { border: 1px solid #aed0ea; }

For further tweaking of the look and feel you need to study the JQuery style sheets.

Hope this helps any.