diff --git a/THEMES.md b/THEMES.md
index f708c9a62..f062f07a2 100644
--- a/THEMES.md
+++ b/THEMES.md
@@ -179,6 +179,60 @@ Notice that you can still override the "common" view in a specific view definiti
 You probably should not use the "common" view for element positioning.  You also should not use it to create "extra" elements.
 
 
+
+### Theming more than one elements at once
+
+You can theme multiple elements *of the same type* simultaneously.  The `name` attribute actually works as a list (delimited by any characters of ` \t\n,` - that is, whitespace and commas).  This is useful if you want to, say, apply the same color to all the metadata labels:
+
+```xml
+<theme>
+    <version>3</version>
+    <!-- Weird spaces/newline on purpose! -->
+    <view name="detailed">
+    	<text name="md_lbl_rating, md_lbl_releasedate, md_lbl_developer, md_lbl_publisher, 
+    	md_lbl_genre,    md_lbl_players,        md_lbl_lastplayed, md_lbl_playcount">
+        	<color>48474D</color>
+        </text>
+    </view>
+</theme>
+```
+
+Is equivalent to:
+```xml
+<theme>
+    <version>3</version>
+    <view name="detailed">
+    	<text name="md_lbl_rating">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_releasedate">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_developer">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_publisher">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_genre">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_players">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_lastplayed">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    	<text name="md_lbl_playcount">
+    		<color>48474D</color>
+    	</text>
+    </view>
+</theme>
+```
+
+Just remember, *this only works if the elements have the same type!*
+
+
 Reference
 =========
 
diff --git a/src/ThemeData.cpp b/src/ThemeData.cpp
index 08f3b9244..6182499c0 100644
--- a/src/ThemeData.cpp
+++ b/src/ThemeData.cpp
@@ -222,13 +222,22 @@ void ThemeData::parseView(const pugi::xml_node& root, ThemeView& view)
 		if(elemTypeIt == sElementMap.end())
 			throw error << "Unknown element of type \"" << node.name() << "\"!";
 
-		const char* elemKey = node.attribute("name").as_string();
+		const char* delim = " \t\n,";
+		const std::string nameAttr = node.attribute("name").as_string();
+		size_t prevOff = nameAttr.find_first_not_of(delim, 0);
+		size_t off =  nameAttr.find_first_of(delim, prevOff);
+		while(off != std::string::npos || prevOff != std::string::npos)
+		{
+			std::string elemKey = nameAttr.substr(prevOff, off - prevOff);
+			prevOff = nameAttr.find_first_not_of(delim, off);
+			off = nameAttr.find_first_of(delim, prevOff);
+			
+			parseElement(node, elemTypeIt->second, 
+				view.elements.insert(std::make_pair<std::string, ThemeElement>(elemKey, ThemeElement())).first->second);
 
-		parseElement(node, elemTypeIt->second, 
-			view.elements.insert(std::make_pair<std::string, ThemeElement>(elemKey, ThemeElement())).first->second);
-
-		if(std::find(view.orderedKeys.begin(), view.orderedKeys.end(), elemKey) == view.orderedKeys.end())
-			view.orderedKeys.push_back(elemKey);
+			if(std::find(view.orderedKeys.begin(), view.orderedKeys.end(), elemKey) == view.orderedKeys.end())
+				view.orderedKeys.push_back(elemKey);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
@@ -255,7 +264,7 @@ void ThemeData::parseElement(const pugi::xml_node& root, const std::map<std::str
 
 			size_t divider = str.find(' ');
 			if(divider == std::string::npos) 
-				throw error << "invalid normalized pair (\"" << str.c_str() << "\")";
+				throw error << "invalid normalized pair (property \"" << node.name() << "\", value \"" << str.c_str() << "\")";
 
 			std::string first = str.substr(0, divider);
 			std::string second = str.substr(divider, std::string::npos);
@@ -293,7 +302,7 @@ void ThemeData::parseElement(const pugi::xml_node& root, const std::map<std::str
 			element.properties[node.name()] = node.text().as_bool();
 			break;
 		default:
-			throw error << "Unknown ElementPropertyType for " << root.attribute("name").as_string() << " property " << node.name();
+			throw error << "Unknown ElementPropertyType for \"" << root.attribute("name").as_string() << "\", property " << node.name();
 		}
 	}
 }