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When people do quotations from other sources in DW, the words show up in a black block with white writing. If I look at this black box long enough to read the writing, when I look away again, I get an afterimage that lasts approximately as long as it took to read the quotation. For long quotations, this is really annoying.

Is there a way to keep DW from putting quotations in white letters on a black background?

Thanks!

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From:

thnidu

how about icons? mine and everyone else's show up on black background, which can ruin them. See this one. It's supposed to look like this:

and does on the icon page and in the icon browse menu.

Edited Date: 2012-03-03 04:49 pm (UTC)

From:

onyxlynx

The default background color for icons is black.

You can probably change that in CSS. When I subscribe/grant access, I assign a background and foreground color. For non-subscription reading, it seems to be the same as the Entry\Comment subject border and background, which is under Customize Style>Colors.

Dsiclaimer: I know no CSS, and I worked out my customization by trial and error, which is why I never submitted it as a style.

From:

thnidu

For non-subscription reading, it seems to be the same as the Entry\Comment subject border and background, which is under Customize Style>Colors.

Not as far as I can tell. Customize Journal Style has 3 mentions of "borders", none of which helped me.

But I went to look at this discussion again, and happened to do it by pasting the URL of mmegaera's post into the browser's address bar instead of going via my friends page. And I immediately noticed that the user icons of her posts are bordered in the same green as the page header.

So I changed my Page header background color to a light gray, #cccccc. That made the icons look MUCH better, but the page title, in white, was almost unreadable. So I changed Page title color to black, #000000, and I am much happier with my page's appearance now. PROBLEM SOLVED.