Styling extension to work with different themes

[ez76]

I'm trying to build an extension that will look decent on different themes. I don't want to hardcode the colors, because if I make everything on a blue theme, it would look horrible on a red theme. I tried adding classes from the theme (vbmenu_control, for example) to my elements in order to bring in the colors, but it also brought in a bunch of other style rules that I then had to reset to default. Is there a standard practice for me? Or can someone point me to an extension that has taken a stab at this problem?

I've searched around the forums and haven't seen any posts relating to this, but I can't imagine that I'm the only one running into this. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

[hambil]

It's a pain. Consider however that most of the styles are already set based on tag names. So, if you just create a page and only add what you want to be different it should work. You may have to make some tweaks, especially around alt1 and alt2 colors. But much of it is already done automatically for you.