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How-to: Change the Default Blue Color in Dynamics CRM

Post Author: Joe D365 | August 5th, 2014

Do you host multiple CRM 2013 environments? Do you and your users sometimes run into issues differentiating between your live production and your test or development CRM organization? Do you simply not like the color blue? Then we have a solution for you! You can easily learn how to change the default blue color in Dynamics CRM!  The only requirement is that you need access to the CRM application server. In other words, not CRM Online.

To change this:

How-to: Change the Default Blue CRM Color in Dynamics CRM

Into this:

How-to: Change the Default Blue CRM Color in Dynamics CRM

Follow these easy steps.

1. Gain access to the CRM application server. If you have multiple application servers for the same environment, they will all need to be changed.

2. Locate the file C:Program FilesMicrosoft Dynamics CRMCRMWeb_controlsnavbarnavbar.css.aspx and make a copy of it. This is important! Editing server files can be tricky, since a simple typo can lead to severe system problems. It will also allow you to quickly convert back to its original state.

3. Open that file with your favorite text editor, such as notepad.

4. Locate the following section, near the beginning of the file:

How-to: Change the Default Blue CRM Color in Dynamics CRM

 

The highlighted color code is what defines what all the menus will look like. If you want the background to be a deep red color, change this value to: #990000. Then just save the file.

If you want to pick out a different color, you can use any number of RGB color code converters available in the web. For example, w3schools.com provides a very straight forward converter, where you can click on a color and it will display what code it is.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp

If you've found this helpful, please continue on to more Dynamics CRM blogs such as sorting priority in system views, customizing column width for form views, or creating personal dashboards. As always...

Happy CRM'ing!

Joe CRM
By Joe D365
Joe D365 is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 superhero who runs on pure Dynamics adrenaline. As the face of PowerObjects, Joe D365’s mission is to reveal innovative ways to use Dynamics 365 and bring the application to more businesses and organizations around the world.

7 comments on “How-to: Change the Default Blue Color in Dynamics CRM”

  2. Hi Joe CRM,

    Great article. Is it possible to customize on a per org basis? Would love to have individual colors for my Dev and Live orgs.

    1. Unfortunately it would not be as easy to change this on a per org basis. To do so on a per org basis we would need javascript to run and modify this.

    1. HI Sandeep - Nope - this is NOT a supported customization as directly modifying file is not supported. However, as long as there are no fat fingers while modifying this file, this is a somewhat safe thing todo as we are simply chaging the color.

  4. Thanks a lot for sharing.
    Hint: I had to replace all occurrences of the color code. Otherwise I had blue colored borders around the links.

  5. Do you know why this would only update the blue nav bar for the default org and not for any other orgs on the same server/instance?

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