Inability to set the highlighted text to black text on yellow background.

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Inability to set the highlighted text to black text on yellow background.

Unread post by RexyDallas » 2018-03-14, 09:51

In Firefox 3.5, there was a contrast check added to text highlighting. This makes it possible for the text highlighting to be clearly visible on backgrounds of similar color. However, if you attempt to set the color to the old default colors, the contrast check will get triggered on most normal backgrounds. The two about:config entries for controlling this are:
ui.textHighlightForeground
ui.textHighlightBackground

The values that should replicate the old default colors are #000000 and #FFFF00, respectively.

Here is a really old MozillaZine forum post related to it: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=1331845

Strangely, if you set text select Foreground and background to those colors, it works just fine.
Last edited by RexyDallas on 2018-03-14, 09:52, edited 1 time in total.
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