I was thinking about this just last night. I just tried this out, so it should work with ANY CSS you want to add to a particular tab (there are IFs).

Download IE Developer Toolbar (there is probably an equivilent in Firefox, etc.).
Two things (at least) this is good for:

• Seeing quick changes in CSS
• finding out the details of objects easily

So get this show the icon for it in your IE. Click the icon to enable the docked window. (WARNING: do not leave it on! There are memory leaks and will throw errors). Click the window and arrow on the far left-hand side. Next click on the tab you want to change colors for and note the ID. (NOTE: Insert IF - this must stay the same for this to work - I do not know that it does). Mine was tddnn_dnnSOLPARTMENU_ctldnnSOLPARTMENU109. Next get your skin's CSS (portal should work too) and pop in a style like this:

#tddnn_dnnSOLPARTMENU_ctldnnSOLPARTMENU109 {
         background-color: Red;
}

This should make it pop out so you can see it easily. One thing I noticed about mine is that I would have to play with my padding or height on the selected item to make it the height of the bar so it didn't look silly. This idea should work with background images, fore colors, everything.

Let me know how it works!

Brad

Hi Brad, thanx this works great, although it is not portable (targeting fixed IDs that DNN assign dynamically). I am using javascript to manipulate page objects, and like your method that is also not portable for DNN generated IDs. Anyways it works for the moment, and with good documentation it shouldn't be difficult for anyone to change it afterwards.

One thing you mentioned I didn't understand was this (see quote below)- could you explain what do you mean with IF?

Cheers, Pieter