Hacking Gmail

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Chapter 4 — Skinning Gmail 45


FIGURE4-10: Gmail Lite


As you can see, it’s a much simpler page layout, with no images, a muted color


scheme, and without the labels, invitation link, and other superfluous material that
just irritates after a day’s writing. It’s a minimalist Gmail whose styles are covered


The Basics in Perl


Walking Through the Style Sheet


The effects you see in Figure 4-10 are simple to achieve with a style sheet, and


certainly much more impressive ones can be achieved by someone with more
design skill than myself.


Begin with the following CSS:


body#gmail-google-com {
background-color: #ffffff !important;
}


body#gmail-google-com img{
display: none !important;
}


/ regular links /

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