layout: page title: Customizing Atom with LESS
What you see inside Atom is rendered very much in the same way that any web site is rendered. Thus, stylesheets play a big part in what you are seeing. You can quickly make a lot of changes to the way elements in Atom are displayed to customize and improve your experience.
To see the details of how a particular element is being rendered, you can use the web inspector like so:
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If you would like Atom to adopt a certain set of styles for a particular
element, you can start by modifying styles.less like so:
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What about using CSS? You can do that too!
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