Posted by Bob on 01/08/07 09:57

Neredbojias wrote:
> To further the education of mankind, Bob <bob@bob.org> vouchsafed:
>
>> Neredbojias wrote:
>>> To further the education of mankind, Bob <bob@bob.org> vouchsafed:
>>>
>>>> ... I do this because my aging CRT monitor
>>>> hurts my eyes unless I hack down the black-white contrast on the
>>>> monitor. Will work until I can afford a new monitor.
>>> Not that you haven't thought of this, but doesn't your monitor have
>>> contrast/brightness adjustment?
>> Not sure if you know this, but CRT monitors, when they get old, they
> get
>> really hard to view. They hurt your eyes. One of the things that goes
> is
>> the contrast. CRT monitors work via some kind of jets that shoot
>> something at the screen. After years, this jet substance starts to gum
>> up the screen in some way.
>>
>> To answer you, I have been monkeying with contrast/brightness/gamma and
>> everything else on the monitor, video card, you name it, for months on
>> end now, and I have not been able to fix this problem no matter where I
>> set it to. The guys on the Linux group said the monitor is shot.
>
> I've got a 10+ yr old NEC crt that's surely dimmed a bit but doesn't seem
> to have the problem yours does. Anyway, I'm not contesting your
> conclusion but will add that they sell screen filters for over-contrasty
> monitors as well.
>
>>>> I am looking at a webpage that is using inline styles, to whit:
>>>>
>>>> <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;
>>>> }
>>> Yes. ...I think.
>> I have it set to this now:
>>
>> span[style] {
>> color: #787878 !important;
>> }
>>
>> And it seems to be working.
>
> Why not just:
>
> span { color:#787878 !important; }
>
> ??
>
> Also, this was probably already discussed, but you could:
>
> body,span {
> background:#383838 !important;

What color is that? White?

> color:#787878 !important;
> }
>
> to cover more ground efficiently and have a validatable style sheet.
> (PS: some use "html","html*", and other constructs as well but not all
> that fancy stuff works in all browsers.)

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