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ridgeRunner
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a question about links in SeaMonkey Composer
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njsg
what is the question?
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ridgeRunner
I have tried everything I can think of to change the color of links in Composer. Selecting them and then clicking on the font color box on the toolbar and changing it to what I want. Going to preferences and changing the color to what I want. Etc. Absolutely nothing works to change the color of the links. I like to work in a black background for my eyes, and the dark blue normal link color is just too dark to see that way
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njsg
the black background was also set for the document or is the browser default color setting?
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ridgeRunner
yes, the background in the document is set to black by default
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ridgeRunner
I set the color for link and active link both to light blue as well. Text color to a medium green color, like the old green on black terminal style in Telnet windows
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ridgeRunner
I get the green font color just fine, the black background just fine, but no matter what I do can't get the link color to change from dark blue
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ridgeRunner
have been researching it with searches, and trying to add HTML or CSS code to the document even to get it to change. No go
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njsg
well, I can reproduce
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njsg
and loading in navigator does show the expected color, not the blue
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ridgeRunner
so does that mean it is a bug in the Composer?
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njsg
it at least means I'm already seeing the issue, so I can at least try to figure out what it is
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ridgeRunner
thank you, appreciate that
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njsg
it's using the default link color in Edit->Preferences Appearance->Colors
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njsg
that is, in Composer, in Navigator (as I don't have it set to override document colors), it shows the page-set color
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ridgeRunner
Under Composer > New Page Settings, I have it set to Use Custom Colors, and I have been setting my colors there
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njsg
This is possibly the same thing
bugzilla.mozilla.org/361770
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njsg
different formatting attribute, but it's also about style not being shown as customized
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njsg
oh, but that one actually shows not underlined in composer
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njsg
a style tag in the anchor itself also works in composer
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njsg
oh, sorry, disregard the last one, it worked because it was again a visited link
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ridgeRunner
yes, I have been trying some style tags and a couple of solutions I have found from searches. And sometimes when I open the html file in a browser it even displays the link in the color I had used. I am no expert with HTML and CSS, but it seems to be a problem just with how the Composer window is showing it
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ridgeRunner1
got disconnected for some reason, hope I didn't miss anything lol
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njsg
you didn't, last message was from you
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ridgeRunner1
cool
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njsg
There's a line in a css file which looks worth checking, I'll see if I can at least see why it is there
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ridgeRunner1
ok, thanks njsg
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ridgeRunner1
worse case scenario, dark gray background works and I can read the links
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ridgeRunner1
not as easy on the eyes as a black background, but definitely better than white for me
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njsg
ridgeRunner1: I can't say how long it'll take me to at least see what's going on, let alone figuring out how to fix this (I hope I can figure it out, though)
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njsg
the file I'm looking at predates mercurial, and is in the mozilla repository
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njsg
might be a good candidate for the reason why this happens, though, if -moz-hyperlinktext is the windowing toolkit's link color (IIRC it is)
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ridgeRunner1
I know hardly anything about HTML or CSS or web composing, I just do simple files for personal use so I don't really know what any of that means
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njsg
"
Bug 1355734 - Remove text-decoration-line: -moz-anchor-decoration" probably explains why the underline styling of
bug 361770 now works
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njsg
and probably also why the comment talks about underlining but the rule only has the color
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njsg
ridgeRunner1: here I am looking at the CSS rules from SeaMonkey, which I can hopefully see fully with the DOM Inspector
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njsg
what might be happening is that one of these rules is overriding the anchor color
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ridgeRunner1
ah, sounds logical
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njsg
I want to do some testing but I need to free some memory first...
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njsg
(if mastodon weren't this bloated thing...)
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ridgeRunner1
I know what you mean, a lot of bloat in everything computing these days it seems lol
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ridgeRunner1
I really appreciate you taking the time to check into this more
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njsg
yes, it should happen just in composer
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njsg
oops, got the scrollback stuck above, so ended up replying to something I thought was new
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njsg
it seems to be the rule from EditorOverride.css indeed
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ridgeRunner1
so can it be fixed, or just something one has to live with?
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njsg
I need to understand this better to be able to answer that :-)
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njsg
as I'm too sleepy, I might have to leave further investigation for later
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ridgeRunner1
ok njsg, I understand, probably need to leave soon myself
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ridgeRunner1
if you come here fairly often, I will try to come back in the future and check in with you to see what you can come up with
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ridgeRunner1
thanks again for checking into this
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a-865
If I asked that here, it explains lack of response where it was intended to go (adjacent tab): ircs://libera.chat/seamonkey
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a-865
asked this yesterday, but in wrong tab: which pref file contains the tabs/tabs history? sessionstore.json?