Mohnkhan, thanks for your help. I may be closer or just way in over my head

I added the background-color: #000000; in the CSS rule tng.css under includes/kollection under the heading /* Table and cell look and feel */ .KT_tngtable and it turned the username field black, but did not change the background of the table.

I though I understood a little about what I was doing....

Do you have any other thoughts?

Thanks again for your help.