I3: Change window border colour?

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I wanted to change the colour of the border of the focused window, but I can’t make it work. I use the default EOS i3 setup with config from ~/.config/i3.
I tried changing this part of the config:
< define colors for windows:

#class border bground text indicator child_border
client.focused $lightblue $darkblue $white $mediumgrey $mediumgrey
client.unfocused $darkblue $darkblue $grey $darkgrey $darkgrey
client.focused_inactive $darkblue $darkblue $grey $black $black
client.urgent $urgentred $urgentred $white $yellowbrown $yellowbrown />

The result was nothing, I tried switching up the preset colours and I tried magenta in case my eyes fooled me..nothing, it’s still white. Am I doing something wrong or is it not possible to change the colour ?

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@Olsby1 ,
I’m not a regular user of AI, but tested this and it works.

Find the color section: Look for the client.* lines in ~/.config/i3/config, which control the colors for diff to set the focused window border to blue and the unfocused to green, you would edit a line like this:

  client.focused   #0000ff #0000ff #ffffff #0000ff
  client.unfocused #008000 #008000 #ffffff #008000
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Thank you !
This worked, and I have no idea why it didn’t work when I tried the predefined colours from the config.. The important thing is this worked and you just saved my day.