Ever since the t3skin arrived, there was this nasty thing that bugged me so much: Some tabs in the TYPO3 Backend weren’t styled at all, and they still had the colors of the classic TYPO3 skin.

As of the nature of TYPO3, an installed skin just overrides the classic skin styles and icons, and it seems like the t3skin author forgot about that. The places where you can see these problems is when selecting a link (Element Browser, Browse Links) and inside the DAM. Apparantly these are the only occurences where the “tabMenu” functions from the template.php file are used, all other places (TCEforms) use the dynTabMenu whic is styled.

However, I found out that I only need to add some CSS markers then to make it integrate nicer in t3skin. This came up two weeks ago when we met about the t3skin and the Backend Usability in Arnhem. I dove into it and found out about the use of tabMenu and the missing CSS in t3skin. Below is a before / after screenshot comparison. Aaah, I like it!

Be sure to check out TYPO3 4.1.7 and 4.2.1, arriving next monday, which finally include the fix (just commited that patch this morning). One patch closer to a better world…