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title: Themes
slug: Mozilla/Add-ons/Themes
tags:
  - Add-ons
  - Look & Feel
  - NeedsTranslation
  - Themes
  - TopicStub
translation_of: Mozilla/Add-ons/Themes
---
<p>Themes are skins for different Mozilla applications. They allow you to change the look and feel of the user interface and personalize it to your tastes. A theme can simply change the colors of the UI or it can change every piece of its appearance. The Theme documentation here is out of date, but we're hoping to get some help to update it soon.</p>
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  <h2 class="Documentation" id="Documentation" name="Documentation">Documentation</h2>
  <dl>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/docs/Building_a_Theme" title="Building a Theme">Building a Theme</a></dt>
   <dd>
    A tutorial for building a simple theme in Firefox.</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/docs/Themes/Common_Firefox_Theme_Issues_and_Solutions" title="Themes/Common_Firefox_Theme_Issues_and_Solutions">Common Theme Issues and Their Solutions</a></dt>
   <dd>
    Common issues seen when AMO editors review themes and how to fix them.</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/docs/Themes/Lightweight_themes" title="Themes/Lightweight themes">Lightweight themes</a></dt>
   <dd>
    Building lightweight themes for Firefox</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/docs/Creating_a_Skin_for_SeaMonkey_2.x" title="Creating_a_Skin_for_SeaMonkey_2.x">Creating a Skin for SeaMonkey 2</a></dt>
   <dd>
    An introduction to creating new themes for SeaMonkey 2.</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/docs/Making_Sure_Your_Theme_Works_with_RTL_Locales" title="Making_Sure_Your_Theme_Works_with_RTL_Locales">Making Sure Your Theme Works with RTL Locales</a></dt>
   <dd>
    How to make sure your theme will look right with Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Urdu locales.</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/docs/Theme_Packaging" title="Theme_Packaging">Theme Packaging</a></dt>
   <dd>
    How to package themes for Firefox and Thunderbird.</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="http://www.tudobom.de/articles/yatt/" title="http://www.tudobom.de/articles/yatt/">Yet Another Theme Tutorial</a></dt>
   <dd>
    Another tutorial in Mozilla theme construction.</dd>
   <dt>
    <a href="/en-US/Mozilla/Add-ons/Themes/Obsolete">Obsolete docs</a></dt>
   <dd>
    These docs are very old and will never be updated, but we've kept them in case the are useful source material for people updating the Theme documentation.</dd>
  </dl>
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  <h2 id="Getting_help">Getting help</h2>
  <ul>
   <li><a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=18">MozillaZine Themes forum</a></li>
  </ul>
  <h2 class="Tools" id="Tools" name="Tools">Tools</h2>
  <ul>
   <li><a href="/en-US/docs/DOM_Inspector" title="DOM_Inspector">DOM Inspector</a></li>
   <li><a class="link-https" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inspectorwidget/">InspectorWidget</a></li>
   <li><a class="link-https" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/force-rtl/">Force RTL</a>: Test for RTL compatibility</li>
  </ul>
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