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Message: [QUOTE="Rhino, post: 605544"] I chose to do a similar thing in one of my applets a while back. This is a fragment of my code which involves overriding the default attributes in the UIManager; this code works fine: /* * Set the colour of the selected tab in the tabbed pane. Set the colour * of scrollbars. See src/java/swing/plaf/basic/BasicLookAndFeel.java in * src.jar for definitions of many of the default colours used in Java. */ UIManager.put("TabbedPane.selected", SELECTED_TAB_COLOUR); //ScrollBar.thumb -> knob UIManager.put("ScrollBar.thumb", SCROLLBAR_KNOB_COLOUR); //ScrollBar.background -> track UIManager.put("ScrollBar.background", SCROLLBAR_TRACK_COLOUR); //ScrollBar.thumbHighlight -> dimples on knob UIManager.put("ScrollBar.thumbHighlight", SCROLLBAR_KNOB_HIGHLIGHT_COLOUR); //control -> default colour for controls (buttons, sliders, etc.) UIManager.put("control", CONTROL_BACKGROUND_COLOUR); By the way, SELECTED_TAB_COLOUR and the other all-capitalized variable names all originate in an interface I built to store the colours which are supposed to be used in the GUI. You could imitate that technique or replace them with constants like Color.black, as in your example. Rhino [/QUOTE]