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

I have been playing with MW1.17 and HeaderTabs 0.8.2 as well. It seems to me that in combination with MW1.17, HeaderTabs is not using any of the files in its \skins folder. This folder seems to exists only for backwards compatibility in case headertabs is used with an older MW version. (So when using MW1.17 changing any of these files doesn't have any effect). With MW1.17 Headertabs uses JQuery and its standard stylesheets that are distributed with MW (see folder: resources\jquery.ui\themes\). If you use the vector stylesheet it uses the vector subfolder.

To change the look of the headertabs you'll 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; }

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

For further tweaking of the look you need to study the JQuery style sheets and redefine the elements that you'd like to change in the MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Vector.css.

Hope this helps any.