# Ignition 8.1 PowerTable header background color

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-powertable-header-background-color/64854>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision, scripting\
**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-powertable-header-background-color/64854 "2022-10-05T16:41:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matthew.gaitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Matthew.gaitan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matthew.gaitan)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-powertable-header-background-color/64854/9 "2022-10-06T21:53:41Z")

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Well... based on this forum post I don't think this is possible how I want to do it ☹

> [@How to Set UI Theme in v8.1 Vision Clients](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-set-ui-theme-in-v8-1-vision-clients/54929/3):
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> The short answer is you don’t; I think I was probably the person who told you that a while back. 8.0+ is using a custom-skinned version of the Synthetica Look-And-Feel. For performance and other reasons, this LaF effectively renders and paints entire images on components, not single colors that can be easily controlled by UIManager properties. So the way to ‘theme’ a Vision application would be to obtain a Synthetica theme .jar and apply it to the Vision client - except you can’t do that, beca…

Such a bummer, but I guess I need to suck it up and go into each window / table and do it manually

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