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Idea #7653: Brainstorm: Code idea text to be black, not default

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 13 May 08.
Written by Warbo the 26 Apr 08 at 13:29. Related project: brainstorm.ubuntu.com. Status: Implemented
Rationale
On the Brainstorm site a lot of text is set to the default system colour, but the backgrounds are coded to be light colours like white. For people who have light text by default (eg. white-on-black themes) this can make the site unreadable without selecting all of the text.

Here is an example of what Brainstorm looks like using my theme http://www.freewebs.com/chriswarbo/Temporary/Pictures/brainstorm%2Dunreadable.j pg [take away the space near the end,Brainstorm is mutilating my URLs :( ] (but this theme is has dark text compared to others)

Please fix this by specifically coding the site to use black text, rather than assuming everyone uses black as default.

Thanks :)
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Written by Warbo the 26 Apr 08 at 13:29.
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nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 26 Apr 08 at 19:46
Could you open a bugreport for this, with steps as how to reproduce this?
I just tested with a high contrast theme, and the text was black.

wearzeep wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 01:32
Yeah this is a problem on maany sites.

You could just do:

body
color: #000000;


then if other stuff, such as headings has to be another color, change that on them specifically.
In fact, i tried adding that css to the page style (with web developer toolbar), and it looked alright.

wearzeep wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 01:34
Hmm, guess curly braces gets filtered out, but you get what I mean :P

Mojo wrote on the 7 May 08 at 11:07
Looking at the OP's screenshot, this the same problem I'm having, but on a different portion of the web page. My problem has been the "Post your comment" text entry box. I have been extremely frustrated trying to enter comments on this site because it does not anticipate my dark theme. I have tried switching Firefox's theme back to default (I use PitchDark), and that did not help. The difference comes from the control set used in the Gnome Theme.

My GTK/Gnome theme was aud-Default. It does not allow you to customize the colors. The result here was white text on a nearly-white grey background. I simply could not read the text without highlighting it, and found it so frustrating that I took to using GEdit and copy-pasting my commentary.

Almost none of the extra-dark GTK control themes seem to have good results. I was lucky enough to find MidnightOSX controls theme that shows a readablelight blue on this comment box. It will work for me, for now. But I am not sure that I am satisfied with it (outside of the joy in seeing my text as I type here now).

glotz wrote on the 12 May 08 at 08:22
The solution is to either color both or neither dynamically. (text & background)

nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 13 May 08 at 12:36
I put the body color: #000000; CSS rule. Is it now ok?


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