Wrong Text Color

Hi,

Often when I'm designing a page in Dreamweaver I will write text in black as
normal, but when I preview the page, some of the text will appear gray.

Here's an example page: http://www.thirdsphereweb.com/Hypnosis.htm

All the text (except that within the black table) should be black, but much of
it is gray.

Also, some of the text is smaller than it's supposed to be. For example the
line "You will also receive the following ebooks, all with full resale rights:"
should be the same size as the text in the tables above and below it.

Please could someone tell me how to get the text black and the correct size?

Thanks,
Joe

The text is NOT gray. The text IS black. Because of the lighter/finer
letterforms, and the anti-aliasing of same the non-bold text doesn't look as
dark as the bold text, but it's still black. And, NO the answer is NOT to
make all text bold. Bold text, in large amounts is harder to read.

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Walt


"joebeaven" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,

Often when I'm designing a page in Dreamweaver I will write text in black
as
normal, but when I preview the page, some of the text will appear gray.

Here's an example page: http://www.thirdsphereweb.com/Hypnosis.htm

All the text (except that within the black table) should be black, but
much of
it is gray.

Also, some of the text is smaller than it's supposed to be. For example
the
line "You will also receive the following ebooks, all with full resale
rights:"
should be the same size as the text in the tables above and below it.

Please could someone tell me how to get the text black and the correct
size?

Thanks,
Joe

Hi Malcolm,

Thanks for the advice. I tried your stylesheets idea and it's helped a lot in
Internet Explorer, although one line is still gray. It hasn't really helped in
Firefox though, there is still a lot of gray text.

If you've got any other suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

I've uploaded the new version.

Thanks again,
Joe

Firefox though, there is still a lot of gray text

NO, there's not. Most of your text is assigned color:#000000. That's black.
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Walt


"joebeaven" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi Malcolm,

Thanks for the advice. I tried your stylesheets idea and it's helped a lot
in
Internet Explorer, although one line is still gray. It hasn't really
helped in
Firefox though, there is still a lot of gray text.

If you've got any other suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

I've uploaded the new version.

Thanks again,
Joe

..oO(joebeaven)

Thanks for the advice. I tried your stylesheets idea and it's helped a lot in
Internet Explorer, although one line is still gray. It hasn't really helped in
Firefox though, there is still a lot of gray text.

It's all black. Increase the font size and you'll see it.

Micha

Firefox obviously thinks it's gray. How can I change it's mind?

How can I change it's mind?

Write it a nasty letter? Threaten it?

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Walt


"joebeaven" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Firefox obviously thinks it's gray. How can I change it's mind?

..oO(joebeaven)

Firefox obviously thinks it's gray. How can I change it's mind?

The DOM Inspector in FF clearly shows a 'font' element there, which
defines a color of #999999. Question is where it comes from, because
it's not in the markup of the page (at least not at that position) and
there don't seem to be any JavaScripts. But I guess it's because of the
totally invalid markup.

Things like this are ridiculous, but harmless:

....<font color="#999999"><font color="#000000">...

But this is a real bug, which might lead to unpredictable results:

<p><font color="#999999">
<table ...

Block-elements like tables are not allowed inside paragraphs and 'font'
elements. And there are many others. The entire code is just a big mess,
a mixup of HTML and XHTML, a collection of deprecated elements and other
ugly stuff.

Taken as-is (the document type says it's XHTML!) the validator shows 686
errors, which means that statistically almost every line is erroneous:

<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thirdsphereweb.com%2FHy pnosis.htm>

Even if forced to HTML, it's still 156 errors:

<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thirdsphereweb.com%2FHy pnosis.htm&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional>

And I guarantee you that this is the reason for your current and
probably many other problems.

Sorry to say, but you should really drop it and start over from scratch
after reading a good book about HTML and CSS. There's no other easy way
to fix that mess.

Micha

joebeaven wrote:

Hi,

Often when I'm designing a page in Dreamweaver I will write text in black as
normal, but when I preview the page, some of the text will appear gray.

Here's an example page: http://www.thirdsphereweb.com/Hypnosis.htm

All the text (except that within the black table) should be black, but much of
it is gray.

Also, some of the text is smaller than it's supposed to be. For example the
line "You will also receive the following ebooks, all with full resale rights:"
should be the same size as the text in the tables above and below it.

Please could someone tell me how to get the text black and the correct size?

Thanks,
Joe

Try the tag stripper extension from Massimo's site.....

http://www.massimocorner.com/ -- You'll find it under Productivity

In the UI in the tag to remove field - type the word font - initially
you may want to do this on a 1 page only basis - so - make sire that the
Current Document checkbox is ticked.

Then you can set about using CSS to enhance your site.

HTH

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chin chin
Sinclair

Malcolm _ wrote:

You don't need an extension in Dw8, or later - not sure about earlier.
I've just done it in CS3 !

Yes - but it's a nice wee extension - much quicker to implement at least
for me on DW8 :-)

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chin chin
Sinclair