Style Sheets

You can change how Opera displays Web pages by changing "Author mode" to "User mode" in the View > Style menu, or using the button on the view toolbar.

Author mode, which is default, lets you see Web pages as the author intended, while user mode lets you view pages in your own style. Each mode contains a set of preferences. Switch between the two sets by clicking the image button on the view toolbar and selecting from the drop-down list. Usually you will change settings for your own mode (user mode), but you can also change the settings in author mode. You can choose what is applied for these modes using View > Style > Manage modes.

Tip: Press Shift+G to toggle between "Author mode" and "User mode".

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Posted by Jenny on Thursday, May 29, 2008

You can apply a skin to Opera to entirely change the way Opera look. Skins change the colors, buttons, icons, back- and foreground images etc. It is extremely easy to get and install skins for Opera. Use Tools > Appearence > Skin, and then "Find more skins", and you will be taken to the My Opera Community skin section. There you will find many different skins, all made by people from our user community.

When you have found a skin you like, click on "Download this skin"; Opera will then download it directly for you, and apply it once it is downloaded. You can then decide whether you want to keep it or not. If you want to change between skins you have downloaded, or change back to the default Opera skin, switch back to "Show installed skins" and make your choice.

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Tweaking the User Interface

Configure and Customize Opera

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Posted by Jenny on Monday, May 26, 2008

All users have individual needs and likes, and thus it is impossible to create a user interface that suits everyone. To reflect this, it has been made very easy to customize Opera's interface to your very own liking.

Customize toolbars

Available in the menu under View > Toolbars, this dialog is the main control center for changing the Opera interface. Add, move or remove buttons, toolbars and search fields.

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Opera has always been known for its configurability. You can change both how it behaves and how it looks.

This is where you can set how Opera works. You can access the preferences in Opera by pressing Alt+P or by going to Tools > Preferences.

A selection of the most used preference settings is gathered in the Quick Preferences for instant access. Press F12 or go to Tools > Quick preferences and have a look.

Not all pages are the same. Sometimes, you may want to apply one preference to most sites, but selectively apply a different preference to a few specific sites. For example, you may want to disable unrequested pop-ups by default, but you may use some sites that rely on being able to use unrequested pop-ups.

Opera allows you to set several preferences for individual sites using site preferences. While visiting the site, right click on the page (or press F12) and select Edit site preferences.

Once a preference has been set in site preferences, all preferences in that section will be used instead of the global preferences. To manage or remove site preferences, use Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > Manage site preferences.

For further information about Opera's preferences, press F1 and access the built-in help files.

More advanced preference management

The preferences dialogs provide access to most commonly used preferences. If you need more control over preferences, you can use the inbuilt preference editor. This is available using by typing the following address into the address bar, and pressing Enter; opera:config

To find out which files Opera uses for bookmarks, cache, mail, settings etc, simply go to Help > About Opera. The locations (paths) of these files are shown there.

All the preference settings are saved in a file called "Opera6.ini", which is located either in your main Opera folder (where you installed Opera) or in C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Application Data\Opera folder if you installed Opera with the "Use separate settings for each user" option checked. Although you can open "Opera6.ini" with any text editor, and make your desired modifications (while Opera is not running), it is easier to use the inbuilt editor.

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Personal bar

The Personal bar is a toolbar that can consist of bookmarks, folders with bookmarks, or your favourite search engines, for instant access. You can configure all this yourself simply by dragging and dropping from the panels. Links can also be dragged from the address field and from within documents. Choose a bookmark folder for display in the personal bar by right-clicking it in the panel. Choose which searches to include on the personal bar by right-clicking it and viewing the options available.

This toolbar is disabled by default. Should you choose to customize and use it, you can enable it using View > Toolbars > Personal bar.

Tab bar

The tab bar acts like a taskbar; if you have several documents open at once, you can select the document you wish to view by clicking a tab on the tab bar.

The tab bar also contains the trash icon that allows you to reopen blocked pop-ups and closed tabs.

Tip: You can close tabs by holding down Shift while clicking on the page bar tabs. Right-click the tab to see a context menu with more options.

Panels

Bookmarks and history, windows sessions, chat sessions and e-mail messages are some of the items that can be managed using the panels.

Navigation Bar

Some sites provide links for a navigation bar to make site navigation easier. If you have set the Navigation bar to "Show only when needed" in View > Toolbars > Customize, it will appear directly below the Address bar whenever you go to a Web page that has support for it. This toolbar is disabled by default.

The Opera help files are made for use with the navigation bar. Press F1 to get a demonstration and find further information about Opera's user interface.

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Posted by Jenny on Wednesday, May 7, 2008