I can't read the spoilers, and I'm too dumb to fix it with the new fancy forums

Wuggles on 8/6/2004 at 04:47

I think I remember a thread some time ago about some people complaining that they could see the text through the spoilers using certain browsers.

Well taking care of us IE users should be a higher priority than the Opera users because there are more of us <img src="http://www.ttlg.com/forums/images/icons/icon16.gif">

Anyway, the problem is that I can't read the spoilers. Yes, I highlight the text, and then it becomes just barely readable, I have to squint and put my face up the monitor to read it (or copy and paste the text somewhere).

Now, normally, in a situation like this, I smile and edit my proxomitron filters to change whats there to what I think is better. So I opened up the source code to the page, and AAH CSS! The new forums are all CSS'ed and I don't know what to do! Could someone please asist me in this matter?

mopgoblin on 8/6/2004 at 06:11

Well, the spoilers look fine to me in IE, although it's an older version.

The appearance of the spoilers is controlled by the following:

<pre>.spoiler{
background-color:#000080;
color:#000080;
}</pre>
in the forums' stylesheet. You might be able to override this with a user stylesheet (although I wasn't able to find an option for this in my version of IE, perhaps due to the abysmal design of the options-changing thing).

To make such a stylesheet, create a plain text file (give it a .css extension), copy the above code in, and add !important immediately before each of the semicolons, with a space before that. The values (after the #) are the hexadecimal rgb values of the colour you'll see. However, I don't know whether it's possible to change them to something such that they're hidden iff they're not selected, since it's IE that's the real problem. Something that is further from its usual selection colour might work though.

Of course, as is the case with most IE problems, using another browser is probably the best solution.

Wuggles on 8/6/2004 at 06:16

Excellent. Thank you. I can use proxomitron to override the stylesheet with one on my hard drive.

mOdEtWo on 8/6/2004 at 07:09

Just curious, what IE version are you using?

David on 8/6/2004 at 07:21

The Windows theme a person is using can cause problems with it too as the highlight gets all screwed and ends up quite close to the colour of the font. Not a lot we can do about that I think.

Wuggles on 8/6/2004 at 17:05

IE6. I am using b0seclass for a theme.

krummi on 8/6/2004 at 18:47

Quote Posted by Wuggles

IE6. I am using b0seclass for a theme.

I didnt have any problems with b0seclass + IE6.