Version 5.4.0.5 - Cannot Change Color of Text With Links
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The color of text or lines of text that has assigned links cannot be changed when using the Rich Text Editor to edit Block content. Even if you select the color you want the text to be before you set the link, when you select the link the text turns light green and cannot be changed using the Select Text Color icon in the toolbar.
This feature worked fine in 5.3.3.1 (which I just upgraded from). Now when I update Block content I have "mixed" colors for my text with links assigned - it's frustrating!
This feature worked fine in 5.3.3.1 (which I just upgraded from). Now when I update Block content I have "mixed" colors for my text with links assigned - it's frustrating!
cannonf700,
I don't mind the default being lime green, it looks OK in most places. I just want to be able to change the color of link text from the default to some other. That is not being allowed now (I just checked it after I fiddled with the default link color). Concerning editing the typography.css: How do you access it from the theme folder, and what would I change if I could? (I did find it and open it for edit in my Host's Cpanel File Manager - but I didn't change anything.) Can you deactivate the default colors for a theme? If so, how?
I don't mind the default being lime green, it looks OK in most places. I just want to be able to change the color of link text from the default to some other. That is not being allowed now (I just checked it after I fiddled with the default link color). Concerning editing the typography.css: How do you access it from the theme folder, and what would I change if I could? (I did find it and open it for edit in my Host's Cpanel File Manager - but I didn't change anything.) Can you deactivate the default colors for a theme? If so, how?
gunner38555,
hope this isn't to late, I just saw that you posted a reply.
If you go to Dashboard> Pages and Themes> and then choose the 'customize' button under the theme your using. this will initiate a page that should allow you to change the default colors of your themes text and links.
Your other option is to create a 2nd link class in the typography.css and then apply that second class when you want the color of the link to change.
You could technically disable all styles by deleting them but all web browsers have their own default settings which they would use in place of the absence of your styles.
Hope this helps.
I will keep up on this dialogue if you have any more questions.
hope this isn't to late, I just saw that you posted a reply.
If you go to Dashboard> Pages and Themes> and then choose the 'customize' button under the theme your using. this will initiate a page that should allow you to change the default colors of your themes text and links.
Your other option is to create a 2nd link class in the typography.css and then apply that second class when you want the color of the link to change.
You could technically disable all styles by deleting them but all web browsers have their own default settings which they would use in place of the absence of your styles.
Hope this helps.
I will keep up on this dialogue if you have any more questions.
Hey all....
I appreciate all these replies, but your asking a non-programmer type to go in and change/revise files..! I don't care what the default setting is on linked text and I don't want to change it. All I know for sure is that before I upgraded to 5.4.0.5, while I was editing a block using 5.3.3.1, I could change the color of linked text by highlighting the text, clicking on the "Select Color Text icon and clicking on the color I wanted. And it worked! So as far as I'm conncerned there is a bug in this part of the new version. Please get it fixed! Until you do, several of my website pages now have a patchwork of dual-color linked text.
I appreciate all these replies, but your asking a non-programmer type to go in and change/revise files..! I don't care what the default setting is on linked text and I don't want to change it. All I know for sure is that before I upgraded to 5.4.0.5, while I was editing a block using 5.3.3.1, I could change the color of linked text by highlighting the text, clicking on the "Select Color Text icon and clicking on the color I wanted. And it worked! So as far as I'm conncerned there is a bug in this part of the new version. Please get it fixed! Until you do, several of my website pages now have a patchwork of dual-color linked text.
This sounds like an issue with your typography.css. Try going to your Dashboard> Pages and Themes> and then clicking the "customize" button under your current theme. If you are using either of the defaults the color for links etc... is lime green. click the color, choose your new color and you should be good to go! You could also directly edit the typography.css in the themes folder to fix this as well.
Cheers!