HF Background Color - Altering Cookies for Custom Colors
Posted 09-11-2022, 09:49 AM
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HF Background Color - Altering Cookies for Custom Colors
Make the background match you
With the recent theme updates put in place by Omniscient, we now have the option to alter the background color to one of three colors:
- Black
- Dark Gray
- Lighter Gray
But what if you wanted the color a navy blue or a neon green? No problem, let's change that! The color values are stored using cookies meaning that you have control and can modify them to whatever color you want. Today, we are going to cover exactly how to do that.
We will go over how to modify cookies in the following browsers:
- Chrome/Brave/Opera
- Firefox
- Open up your web browser. Then right click on the browser window and select Inspect
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- You should be presented with the web browser dev tools. On the top navbar, click on Application
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- Head over to the left column and scroll around until you get to the Storage section. In the Storage section, click on Cookies and then the Hack Forums link.
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- Look at the table to the right and look for mybb_bgcolor in the Name column. Once you find it, the Value column to the right of it is where we will be editing the hex code. Double click on the value and input your own color that you want. I chose to go with a blue background.
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- After you put in your color value, hit the enter key to submit it. Then refresh your page and your background should be changed to the color you want!
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- Open up Firefox and header over to Hack Forums. Once on the page go ahead and right click and hit Inspect.
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- After you click Inspect, on the dev tool window that pops up, click Storage.
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- In the left column, search for Cookies and then select the Hack Forums Link.
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- Look at the table to the right and look for mybb_bgcolor in the Name column. Once you find it, the Value column to the right of it is where we will be editing the hex code. Double click on the value and input your own color that you want. I chose to go with a blue background.
- After you put in your color value, hit the enter key to submit it. Then refresh your page and your background should be changed to the color you want!
*Note*
A great place to find some clean and smooth colors is:
https://colorhunt.co/
Just click on a color you like and it'll automatically copy the hex code. When you paste it into the table, it won't put the # symbol, so make sure you add that before the code so it properly works.
