Text Fields and Text Areas of Web Page Have Hard Coded Colors

[Marcelo Ruiz]

Hi All,

I wanted you to know that the hard-coded fonts and cursor in the web page makes someone who has a dark theme installed (in my case in Ubuntu 9.10 with Firefox as a browser) impossible to read what is typing while posting a message.
Although it is not a crucial thing (I can write the whole message in a text editor and then copy and paste it into the selected place), it makes using the website use a little harder than it should be.
I guess you might be a way to solve this problem because I don't have it with other web pages.
I am attaching an image for you to see the effect.
Thanks!

Marcelo.

[Deepak Bala]

Change the theme ? It looks like your theme draws UI components with a black background. The equivalent of using background-color: 000000 Do you see this with other themes ? Also how do other web sites and text boxes behave under this theme ?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Can you link to a site that has a textarea without the problem? That way we can compare it to what we have.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

I checked the code. While there are other shortcomings to the HTML, we do not have the color hard coded for the textarea. Here is where the color is being set - in the CSS.

input, textarea, select { border: 1px solid #ccc; font: 11px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; }