Override JComboBox Default Colors?

To do that you'd have to replace ComboBoxUI in your Look and Feel. Not everything is controlled by colors in UIDefaults. *UI classes do actual drawing.

If you are talking about the light blue border surrounding the whole combobox(button and text). You can achieve this by setting the property "Combobox. Border" in the UIManager to either null or another border.

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