Forums code tag colors

krumpf · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2018 Posts: 191

Hi all,

rab0171610 · Guru Joined: 24 Dec 2022 Posts: 426

I use the black hole theme that you refer to in Firefox so it is not that stark for me here. I find glaring white pages more troublesome.
What happens when you just select the text and highlight it with your mouse? Selecting the text, which highlights it, makes it much easier to read here. The ratio of quotes in the forums to other text is very small in comparison.
Dark Reader is a Firefox add-on that can customize varying degrees of darkness, but it is buried in the settings.
Or they could just change the font color.
I am sure it is possible to change the font color for a given page with css or Greasemonkey.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22697

The forum is quite amenable to local CSS overrides. I use a dark override here, which I wrote years ago without much effort. Unlike some modern excuses for web sites, this one was easy. I use:

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 934 Location: Romania

krumpf · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2018 Posts: 191

Thanks Hu !
You gave me a nice base to perform the small tweak I want.
CSS might be easy for you, but each time I've tried it, even just to align 2 div, there were a lot of F-words coming out of my mouth ^^'

@stefan In your firefox profile folder (find its location with url about:support ) create a chrome folder, and inside that folder a userContent.css

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22697

I may have been unclear. I was not bragging that I am proficient at CSS, but rather observing that the document structure of the forum is amenable to these types of changes. There have been other sites where I wanted a change and it was much more complicated, because a variety of page elements needed to be overridden individually, such as a grid where the elements are all individually and absolutely positioned, so making one element wider makes everything else wrong and requires that all the other elements be explicitly repositioned, or various sites that have a dozen different style rules that all set different parts of their text to white, and I have to override all of them to get the page to be reasonable. With these forums, I made the change I wanted, and did not find myself in a pit of secondary changes required just to smooth out the side effects of the change I wanted.

If you want more specific help, please ask. It has been a long time since I wrote the fragment I posted above, but I am happy to recompute how it works and explain it, if you want.

krumpf · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2018 Posts: 191

I've reduced your code to this

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 934 Location: Romania

krumpf · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2018 Posts: 191

You're missing the final }

Other possibility, in about:config url, search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, set it to true and restart your browser.
Also, I noticed just refreshing the page after tweaking the css file wouldn't work, I needed to open a new tab for changes to be applied.

skellr · Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 9:29 pm Post subject:

In Firefox go to about:config and change toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true.

They have it disabled by default.

rab0171610 · Guru Joined: 24 Dec 2022 Posts: 426

I am always highlighting the quote text to soften the brightness and read it better. This will keep me from having to do that if I can change the color to something less neon colored. (exacerbated by wearing bifocals probably)
Really dumb questions tho . . .
Where can I find a list of supported color names to experiment with?
Also, I already have a css file to remove that new puzzle piece extension button from the task bar. I assume I can I just add this code block to the bottom of the file without affecting the other code already there?

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 934 Location: Romania

krumpf · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2018 Posts: 191

@rab0171610 Just search for html colors on the web. I noticed the css file also accepts hexadecimal color codes, that should leave you room to experiment.

@stefan There are Hu's choice of colors, it felt like overkill to me, so as said in a previous post, I just reduced the css to affect only the [code] tag.

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 934 Location: Romania

krumpf · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2018 Posts: 191

Chiitoo · Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 7:03 am Post subject:

Yes, the default colours are pretty bad, but we'd rather not touch anything with the current forum software as long as it works. :]

Tiny tweaks like this of course /should/ not break anything... but I have /some/ hope that this is the year 202(phpBB)3 which has quite some changes in store...
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Kindest of regardses.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22697

stefan11111: I do not get that artifact on my view, so I cannot debug it for you. Perhaps one of my other customizations (not shown) is responsible for eliminating it.

wjb · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:10 am Post subject:

A little late here, but I only just noticed this conversation.

I use the Stylus add-on (available for Chromium, Firefox, etc) for patching site CSS. It's only foible is the 'name' it wants for a new script is the domain name of the site to be patched.

I hadn't thought of changing the font as well, thanks @krumpf