Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings.

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Re: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by chester (Hermit) on Nov 04, 2005 at 16:32 UTC
I would also be happy if there were no `font` tags. It's possible to work around it though; in the CSS I use, I resort to things like `font { color: #000 !important; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by wolfger (Deacon) on Nov 04, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
Thanks. That worked. -- Random Synapse Firing	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by davidrw (Prior) on Nov 04, 2005 at 16:30 UTC
you can put this in your custom css (to make it black text) and it will override the `color="white"` html attribute .. might, of course, break other font tags that don't have explictl styles, though.. `font { color: #000000 }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 05, 2005 at 11:39 UTC
Better yet: `font { color: inherit !important; font: inherit !important; }` [download] Now `font` tags have exactly zero effect. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by xdg (Monsignor) on Nov 05, 2005 at 05:22 UTC
I've also found this to be great for sizes. `font { font-size: 100%; }` [download] -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by Petruchio (Vicar) on Nov 05, 2005 at 16:35 UTC
Rest assured, I don't think anyone's hard-coding any new colors. There are just some old ones lingering. I got rid of most of these a few years back, but I know I didn't get all of them; it's a big codebase. If you find something like this, and it's causing you trouble, /msg me the details and I'll see about getting rid of it. If, after a week or so, it's not fixed, and you haven't heard bad news from me, /msg me again. I don't mind a bit of polite hassling. :-) You might also talk to the pmdev folks, who might respond more quickly. If a patch is brought to my attention to do this sort of thing, I'll apply it.	[reply]
Re^2: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 05, 2005 at 18:00 UTC
Searching the code for `<font` shows 120 hits, but a bunch of them are irrelevant, and I don’t know how many of them are dead. Even so, if each pmdevil patched one or two of those, they’d all be gone. It’s less work than meets the eye. I’m in the process of patching all the poll stuff. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^2: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by wolfger (Deacon) on Nov 06, 2005 at 11:24 UTC
Well, here's one where the colors don't seem to be hardcoded, but I'm not seeing the words anyhow: `<tr class="titlebar"> <td class="titlebar"> <form method="get" action="?" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" > <img src="./images/clearpixel.gif" width="5" height="1" alt="" class="spacer" /> <input type="text" name="node" size="20" maxlength="80" /> <input class="titlebar" type="submit" value="Search" name="go_button" /> </form> </td> <td class="titlebar" id="mb2001titlebar" align="right" > <a class="titlebar" href="?" > Perl Monks </a> </td> </tr>` [download] And my CSS: `tr.titlebar , tr.monkquip { color : #0000aa; background-color : #ffffff; }` [download] The funny think is, the monkquip displays properly, but the titlebar does not. -- Random Synapse Firing	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Hard-coded colors breaking custom CSS settings. by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 06, 2005 at 16:22 UTC
Try either less or more specifity. Either just `.titlebar`, so all elements with the class are addressed directly (instead of having to inherit their colours from the `<tr>`), or add a couple more specific ones like `td.titlebar, input.titlebar`. Specificity is a pretty important concept in CSS, and if you don’t understand it, then the cascading and inheritance of things will occasionally snare you in baffling ways. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]