ASP .NET Users Desktop Themes

[Dianna]

I am writing an ASP .NET application. Controls such as Listbox and combo box
pick up the Users Themes from there PC and display selected items using such
selected highlight colors.

I have a table which the user can scroll through and also has mousein -
mouseout events which changes the color as they scroll. This does not pick
up the user's theme color (it is defined in the style sheet). I would rather
this be the Users Theme color. Why? Because I have a table on the same page
as a Listbox and depending on the users theme, they both select with
different colors. It doesn't look nice

Question:
1. Is there a way to modify the listbox selected item color (I don't think
there is, unless I write a custom control, which is not an option). And I
mean the selected color (onclick), not background, forecolor). I know I could
use the html listbox and modify the style, however, there does not seem to be
a way to modify the 'selected item'

2. Is there an API call I can make (using VBSCRIPT on the client, or
JSCRIPT) that can pick up the users theme and get the 'selecteditem' color.

Its just cosmetics, but it makes a difference.
Thanks, Dianna

[Alex]

I do not think there is a way to override the system's Selected Item color.
Depending on your desktop theme, this color may vary, but I have not found a
way to alter this programatically. You can get each option's style or class
values using something like the following.

code to use onClick or onChange, ect.
this[selectedIndex].value;
this[selectedIndex].setAttribute('className','SelectedItem');
this[selectedIndex].getAttribute('className');

<select name="lstDepartment" size="1" multiple>
<option value="1" class="Item">Marketing</option>
<option value="2" class="Item">Sales</option>
<option value="4" class="Item">Executive</option>
<option value="5" class="Item">IT</option>
</select>

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"Dianna" <Di****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am writing an ASP .NET application. Controls such as Listbox and combo box pick up the Users Themes from there PC and display selected items using such selected highlight colors.

I have a table which the user can scroll through and also has mousein -
mouseout events which changes the color as they scroll. This does not pick up the user's theme color (it is defined in the style sheet). I would rather this be the Users Theme color. Why? Because I have a table on the same page as a Listbox and depending on the users theme, they both select with
different colors. It doesn't look nice

Question:
1. Is there a way to modify the listbox selected item color (I don't think there is, unless I write a custom control, which is not an option). And I
mean the selected color (onclick), not background, forecolor). I know I could use the html listbox and modify the style, however, there does not seem to be a way to modify the 'selected item'

2. Is there an API call I can make (using VBSCRIPT on the client, or
JSCRIPT) that can pick up the users theme and get the 'selecteditem' color.
Its just cosmetics, but it makes a difference.
Thanks, Dianna

[recoil]

Not via Javascript. One would have to snoop at some obsecure registry
key or API call most likely to retrieve this information.

[Karl Seguin]

I agree with what the other posters have said...certainly can't access
user's theme via client script..perhaps an activex control however...as for
the highlighted colour, take a look at
http://www.mhavila.com.br/topicos/web/css_tabelas.html it's in spanish..but
if you scroll all the way down, you'll see a box with a different hover
highlight, which is achieved, I would assume, via the :hover CSS flag..

Karl

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"Dianna" <Di****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32**********************************@microsof t.com...

I am writing an ASP .NET application. Controls such as Listbox and combo box pick up the Users Themes from there PC and display selected items using such selected highlight colors.

I have a table which the user can scroll through and also has mousein -
mouseout events which changes the color as they scroll. This does not pick up the user's theme color (it is defined in the style sheet). I would rather this be the Users Theme color. Why? Because I have a table on the same page as a Listbox and depending on the users theme, they both select with
different colors. It doesn't look nice

Question:
1. Is there a way to modify the listbox selected item color (I don't think there is, unless I write a custom control, which is not an option). And I
mean the selected color (onclick), not background, forecolor). I know I could use the html listbox and modify the style, however, there does not seem to be a way to modify the 'selected item'

2. Is there an API call I can make (using VBSCRIPT on the client, or
JSCRIPT) that can pick up the users theme and get the 'selecteditem' color.
Its just cosmetics, but it makes a difference.
Thanks, Dianna

[Dianna]

Thanks everyone.

"Karl Seguin" wrote:

I agree with what the other posters have said...certainly can't access
user's theme via client script..perhaps an activex control however...as for
the highlighted colour, take a look at
http://www.mhavila.com.br/topicos/web/css_tabelas.html it's in spanish..but
if you scroll all the way down, you'll see a box with a different hover
highlight, which is achieved, I would assume, via the :hover CSS flag..

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/ - New and Improved (yes, the popup is annoying)
http://www.openmymind.net/faq.aspx - unofficial newsgroup FAQ (more to
come!)
"Dianna" <Di****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32**********************************@microsof t.com...

I am writing an ASP .NET application. Controls such as Listbox and combo

box

pick up the Users Themes from there PC and display selected items using

such

selected highlight colors.

I have a table which the user can scroll through and also has mousein -
mouseout events which changes the color as they scroll. This does not

pick

up the user's theme color (it is defined in the style sheet). I would

rather

this be the Users Theme color. Why? Because I have a table on the same

page

as a Listbox and depending on the users theme, they both select with
different colors. It doesn't look nice

Question:
1. Is there a way to modify the listbox selected item color (I don't

think

there is, unless I write a custom control, which is not an option). And I
mean the selected color (onclick), not background, forecolor). I know I

could

use the html listbox and modify the style, however, there does not seem to

be

a way to modify the 'selected item'

2. Is there an API call I can make (using VBSCRIPT on the client, or
JSCRIPT) that can pick up the users theme and get the 'selecteditem'

color.

Its just cosmetics, but it makes a difference.
Thanks, Dianna