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Steve Cook

Flying Squad
daifly - there is an A symbol in the edit bar, clicking that should give you a load of colour options
HTH
Steve
Edited to check I can change colour on an edit
I can, shame I have no colour taste in this post :p

I'm on chrome on a Mac, will check Chrome and XP in a minute.
 

daifly

Western Thunderer
Just tried again and failed. To reproduce this, write a piece of text and embed a link. Now try to change the link colour!

I rest my case.

Edit by Steve Cook. Challenge accepted :)

For reference, the word link was originally bold, but black text.
 
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Steve Cook

Flying Squad
If this works daifly, it should take you to the top of the page.

Process was write sentence, highlight text, insert link, change colour.

In order to give Adrian the best chance of fixing this (did you see the teflon shoulder pads there), can you let us know what device you are trying it on please?

Steve
 

ZiderHead

Western Thunderer
Perhaps the link fixed colour isn't a problem but intended behaviour - if the link colour is consistent people know what is a clickable link? Its how I would do it.
 

daifly

Western Thunderer
Perhaps the link fixed colour isn't a problem but intended behaviour - if the link colour is consistent people know what is a clickable link? Its how I would do it.
I'm sure that it's not intended behaviour. As Steve Cook illustrated here it can be done. My investigations show that I can't do it using a Firefox/MBPro combination. This post was created using Safari/MBPro and all works well. I use Firefox most of the time because I have had some problems with Safari when attempting Online Banking etc. Perhaps I shall have to set Safari as my default browser.
Dave
 

adrian

Flying Squad
Just upgraded to Firefox 33.1 and the problem remains. Very odd.
Yes it does seem to be a bug (or "feature") in the editor specific to Firefox, I can recreate it on my Mac Air with Firefox.

It seems what is happening on Firefox is that the colour tags are being applied outside of the url tags, if you look at the BB code then Firefox gives this
Code:
[COLOR=#0000ff][url ref=...]Link Text[/url][/COLOR]
Yet on Safari or Chrome etc the color tags are inside the url tag.
Code:
[url ref=...][COLOR=#0000ff]Link Text[/COLOR][/url]
So in the Firefox generated message the url tag formatting overrides the colour you have set.

I'll file it as a bug with the forum software people. For the minute it means either moving the color tags around or after creating the link you can apply the colour to half of the link text first and then the other half in a second go - this is created on a MacAir with Firefox. I'll try and work on a better fix for you.
 

Phill Dyson

Western Thunderer
However after having said all that if you really want the full desktop effect on the mobile devices I have created another style you can select "Flexile-2 Fixed" where I have turned the responsive design off.

I hope this helps.
This does work though Ross.
 

adrian

Flying Squad
Just upgraded to Firefox 33.1 and the problem remains. Very odd.
It seems a recurring problem that the links in messages weren't visible enough, rather than the members continually editing links to make them visible I have updated the styling so now any links in messages should be more prominent.

I hope this helps.
 

daifly

Western Thunderer
Yes it does seem to be a bug (or "feature") in the editor specific to Firefox, I can recreate it on my Mac Air with Firefox.
Hi Adrian
Thanks for confirming that it wasn't just me! I haven't tried it yet with a PC/Firefox combo - have you?
Cheers
Dave
 

adrian

Flying Squad
Hi Adrian
I haven't tried it yet with a PC/Firefox combo - have you?
Not yet - I don't have easy access to that combination. I run Templot through a virtual Win7 machine at home so I'd have to fire that up and install Firefox to test it out.
 
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