Text Color Wrong in Internet Explorer

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Raymond Williams	Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:52:17 am I've been banging my head against the wall about this for a while now, and I can only hope at this point maybe it's something one of you has seen in regard to eZ, because that's my last guess... For some reason, in Internet Explorer (not Firefox) all of my text is blue, unless specifically overriden by a style at the tag level. If I add color: #000000; to the global BODY style in CSS, it does nothing. If I add text="#000000" to the pagelayout.tpl body tag, it does nothing. But if I set the color in the style of the paragraph/span/whatever tag itself, that text (and only that bit, as would be expected) is black. I cannot find anywhere that I am setting the font to blue, excepting one class in my primary CSS, and changing that to black did not change anything either. Page is at http://www.prosoft-technology.com For those that would run it through a validator, I am aware of the self-closing tag issues and am working to correct that. I read through an entire validation report, and nothing in there should (as far as I can see) be changing my font to blue and ignoring global style declarations. Thanks for any feedback / suggestions. Raymond
Hans Melis	Wednesday 02 August 2006 1:29:27 pm Hi Raymond Unfortunately, an "incorrectly" closed tag is the cause of your problems. The first tag after <body> is <a name="top" /> If you change that to <a name="top"></a> the text will become black in IE too. Your way works in theory and in browsers that conform to theory ;-) But it's always a good idea to write the closing tag if the tag actually has one. That will prevent you from confusing browsers that have no clue. Extra example: for an empty paragraph, you should always write <p></p> and not <p />. Hans http://blog.hansmelis.be

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Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:52:17 am

I've been banging my head against the wall about this for a while now, and I can only hope at this point maybe it's something one of you has seen in regard to eZ, because that's my last guess...

For some reason, in Internet Explorer (not Firefox) all of my text is blue, unless specifically overriden by a style at the tag level. If I add color: #000000; to the global BODY style in CSS, it does nothing. If I add text="#000000" to the pagelayout.tpl body tag, it does nothing. But if I set the color in the style of the paragraph/span/whatever tag itself, that text (and only that bit, as would be expected) is black.

I cannot find anywhere that I am setting the font to blue, excepting one class in my primary CSS, and changing that to black did not change anything either.

Page is at http://www.prosoft-technology.com

For those that would run it through a validator, I am aware of the self-closing tag issues and am working to correct that. I read through an entire validation report, and nothing in there should (as far as I can see) be changing my font to blue and ignoring global style declarations.

Thanks for any feedback / suggestions.

Raymond

Hans Melis

Wednesday 02 August 2006 1:29:27 pm

Hi Raymond

Unfortunately, an "incorrectly" closed tag is the cause of your problems. The first tag after <body> is

<a name="top" />

If you change that to

<a name="top"></a>

the text will become black in IE too.

Your way works in theory and in browsers that conform to theory ;-) But it's always a good idea to write the closing tag if the tag actually has one. That will prevent you from confusing browsers that have no clue. Extra example: for an empty paragraph, you should always write <p></p> and not <p />.

Hans
http://blog.hansmelis.be

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 19 2025 00:11:33
Script start
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 00:11:33
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 00:11:33
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 00:11:34
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 00:11:34
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	1.0528 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	54

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0064	588.0313	152.6406
Module start 'layout'	0.0064	0.0031	740.6719	39.4766
Module start 'content'	0.0095	1.0419	780.1484	522.8828
Module end 'content'	1.0514	0.0014	1,303.0313	8.1406
Script end	1.0528		1,311.1719

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0033	0.3115	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1202	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0014	0.1291	1	0.0014
Mysqli_queries	1.0031	95.2793	54	0.0186
Looping result	0.0006	0.0546	52	0.0000
Template Total	1.0199	96.9	2	0.5099
Template load	0.0023	0.2223	2	0.0012
Template processing	1.0175	96.6486	2	0.5088
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0183	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0010	0.0911	1	0.0010
state_identifier_array	0.0025	0.2381	2	0.0013
Override
Cache load	0.0018	0.1753	19	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0007	0.0645	2	0.0003
Fetch class attribute name	0.0013	0.1250	3	0.0004
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0007	0.0634	2	0.0003
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0007	3	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0014	0.1319	15	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0007	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/literal.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/literal.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 11 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs