diff --git a/src/blackgui/components/settingstextmessageinlinecomponent.ui b/src/blackgui/components/settingstextmessageinlinecomponent.ui
index 59aa22997..fb9a9103e 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/components/settingstextmessageinlinecomponent.ui
+++ b/src/blackgui/components/settingstextmessageinlinecomponent.ui
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
-    <width>338</width>
-    <height>26</height>
+    <width>266</width>
+    <height>23</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="windowTitle">
diff --git a/src/blackgui/share/qss/stdwidget.qss b/src/blackgui/share/qss/stdwidget.qss
index 47e424c6c..9e8474d77 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/share/qss/stdwidget.qss
+++ b/src/blackgui/share/qss/stdwidget.qss
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ QPlainTextEdit {
 QGroupBox {
   border: 1px solid green;
   margin-top: 1.0em; /* leave space at the top for the title */
-  padding-top: 0.25em;
+  padding-top: 0.5em;
   border-radius: 5px;
   background: black; /* background is background color here */
   background-image: url(:/textures/icons/textures/texture-inner.jpg);
@@ -355,12 +355,16 @@ QGroupBox::disabled {
   background: rgba(4, 105, 105, 105);
 }
 
+/* QGroupBox::flat { border: 0px; } */
+QGroupBox::unchecked { border: 0px; }
+
 QGroupBox::title {
   top: 2px;
-  left: 5px;
+  left: 1em;
   subcontrol-origin: margin;
   subcontrol-position: middle left; /* position at the top center */
-  padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
+  padding: 0px 2em 0px 2em;
+  min-width: 15em;
   background-color: darkblue;
   border: 1px solid green;
   border-radius: 5px;
diff --git a/src/blackgui/share/qss/textmessage.css b/src/blackgui/share/qss/textmessage.css
index 8cbc5b3a4..143a607d3 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/share/qss/textmessage.css
+++ b/src/blackgui/share/qss/textmessage.css
@@ -2,44 +2,19 @@
 /** does not(!) affect text edit **/
 /** http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext-html-subset.html **/
 
-table {
-  font-size: 8pt;
-}
+table { font-size: 8pt; }
 
-tr {
-}
+tr { }
+td { vertical-align: middle; }
+td.timestamp { color: green; }
+td.message{ }
 
-td {
-  vertical-align: middle;
-}
+/** recipient info normal/supervisor **/
+td.recipient{ color: yellow; }
+.sent td.recipient{ color: blue; }
+.supervisor td.recipient{ background-color: red; }
 
-td.timestamp {
-  color: green;
-}
-
-td.recipient{
-  color: yellow;
-}
-
-.sent td.recipient{
-  color: blue;
-}
-
-.supervisor td.recipient{
-  background-color: red;
-}
-
-td.sender{
-  color: yellow;
-}
-
-.sent td.sender{
-  color: blue;
-}
-
-.supervisor td.sender{
-  background-color: red;
-}
-
-td.message{
-}
+/** sent info normal/supervisor **/
+td.sender{ color: yellow; }
+.sent td.sender{ color: blue; }
+.supervisor td.sender{ background-color: red; }