Posted by Bob on 12/30/06 16:28

Chris Vogel wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>> <span style="color: black;">
>>
>> How do I change the style sheet to change these text strings to grey?
>> Will this do it?
>>
>> span style {
>> color: #787878 !important;
>> }
>
> span[style]
> {
> color: #787878 !important;
> }
>
> But it sounds like you want to change the text color of the entire
> page.

Not necessarily. I don't mind colored links and whatnot. I am mostly
concerned with long article texts.

You could replace your entire style sheet with something like this:
>
> html, html *
> {
> color: #787878 !important;
> }
>
> The text will be unreadable if the site's style sheet has a background
> color too close to your text color.

Sometimes the grey is unreadable on a, say, red or pink background
color. In that case, I choose Edit CSS in WebDeveloper and try to find
the background color line that is effecting the page and just delete it.
Then I can read the page.

This would take care of that,
> although it would drastically change the look of some pages:
>
> html, html *
> {
> color: #787878 !important;
> background-color: #ffffff !important;
> background-image: none !important;
> }

Thx, sounds a bit too extreme for now.

I just figured out you can go to Tools - Options - Content - Colors -
(Choose a color), then *uncheck let pages override my fonts and colors,
and thereby set it globally in Firefox pretty well. We'll see how that
works.

I kind of like the user.css better cuz you can fine-tune it more
granually to the given page.
--
http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/

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