Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:09, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> 
wrote:
> > Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input
> > fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your
> > desktop, so if you have a suitably Gothic light-on-dark colour scheme you
> > cannot read your input. I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by
> > supplying a user css page but, for those occasions when you have to use
> > it, I want to do the same thing with Firefox. A quick google reveals the
> > presence of userContent.css in your profile, so I added my rules, eg,
> >
> > html->body {
> >  background-color: white;
> >  color: black;
> > }
> >
> > input {
> >  background-color: #E1E7FD;
> >  color: black;
> > }
> >
> > but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this?
>
> Have you looked at Preferences --> Content --> Fonts & Colors -->
> Colors...? Uncheck the "Allows pages ..." and set your own
> preferences. I've never used it but it looks like it might help.

I tried that but the rest of the page becomes very white!
Cheers..
-Robin
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