On Friday, 27 June 2014 19:16:45 Isarra Yos wrote:
> On 27/06/14 19:02, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> > On Friday, 27 June 2014 10:24:57 Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> >> Works for me. I added the background-color rule to
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaldari/vector.css and it took effect
> >> immediately.
> >>
> >> Ryan Kaldari
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Barish
> >> <jeff_bar...@earthlink.net>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Until two days ago, I was able to modify the background color of a
> >>> Wikipedia
> >>> page with a style sheet containing the following:
> >>>
> >>> body {
> >>>
> >>> background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;
> >>> color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important;
> >>>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> The line for color still works, but the line for background-color does
> >>> not.
> >>> Does anyone know what changed and what I have to do now to change the
> >>> background color?
> >>>
> >>> If this is not the right mailing list for this question, could someone
> >>> direct me to the right one?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> ---
> >>> Jeffrey Barish
> >
> > Ryan,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. It is certainly interesting to know that someone
> > is
> > able to get something related to work, although I don't really understand
> > what it is you did. The lines of css that I provided still do not work
> > for me. Perhaps it would help for me to provide a little more information
> > about what I am doing as it most likely is different from what you tried.
> >
> > I am viewing Wikipedia pages using webkit in an application that I wrote.
> > I attach my style sheet by specifying user_stylesheet_uri. I know that
> > webkit is reading my css because I could set the background color until 2
> > days ago and because I can still set the text color. I am guessing that
> > a css upstream is now specifying the background color using !important so
> > that my specification no longer takes effect. If so, then that
> > specification is new because mine used to work. I don't understand how
> > Wikipedia (or css, for that matter) works well enough to guess where that
> > change might have been made or why. However, if my theory is correct,
> > then I don't see how you are able to change the background color, unless
> > the change that you made somehow is upstream from the hypothetical
> > specification of background color using !important.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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> Kaldari used an !important, but I tried it just now without it and the
> background colour change still worked - is it possible you have some
> other, more specific rule somewhere overriding the colour? The only
> thing I found in the mw source css was a generic body selector without
> anything special (body { background-color: #F6F6F6; }), but if that's
> overridden elsewhere it would cause problems.
>
> -I
>
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I tried reducing the style sheet to the three lines
body {
background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;
}
Doesn't work. When I modify the second line to be
color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important;
the text color changes, as expected. Since there is nothing else in my style
sheet, I conclude that the problem is not interference from a more specific
rule of my own, but the theory was certainly worth testing.
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