Class "strong" has fixed color

[Julius_2000]

Hi,

Our custom theme uses a black background for the class "title_bar". While I was looking through the PHP info tab in admin, I realized that there were actual titles in the header for each info segment, although invisible until highlighted.
Upon inspection with Devtools and the latest Default 2.1.4 theme, I noticed that "strong, .strong" actually has a defined color value, which is black.

Is there a reason for why this generic class should have a fixed color at all out of the box? This would i.e. overwrite a custom color for title_bar unless removed or individually addressed with a selector.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Not really sure, but if I had to guess it's to try and force browsers in line and present the forum as it was designed instead of how the user has managed to redesign it through browser settings and selection.

This is not really a general support issue though, so I'll move this over to graphics and templates.

[Antechinus]

I assume it was the theme author's choice to leave the titles invisible. Either that or they were just too blind to realise. Anyway it should be easy to fix, if you want them visible. It would help if you posted this question in the support thread for the relevant theme.

[Diego Andrés]

He's talking about the default theme though, he's referring as to why strong has it's own color instead of using body.
What I understood is that in their custom theme they didn't notice strong,.strong had a custom color and it was not inherited.

[Julius_2000]

He's talking about the default theme though, he's referring as to why strong has it's own color instead of using body.
What I understood is that in their custom theme they didn't notice strong,.strong had a custom color and it was not inherited.

That's exactly why I even noticed it, because we mostly have dark backgrounds. I then accidentally highlighted the area of the table header and saw the title. Then I went ahead to check whether it was an issue with our custom theme, but the class exactly the same.

I was just curious since I thought it wouldn't make much sense to give this class a specific color when all it's supposed to do is to make font bold (at least in my mind).

I'm sorry about the confusion.

[Diego Andrés]

I was just curious since I thought it wouldn't make much sense to give this class a specific color when all it's supposed to do is to make font bold (at least in my mind).

I wouldn't know about the specific reason, sorry.
My guess is just trying to highlight the text a little bit more and offer more control over it.

[Antechinus]

TBH I have no idea why a strong tag, or a .strong class, would be inside .title_bar anyway. All of the .title_bar instances have .titlebg directly inside them, and that has font-weight: bold; declared in index.css. Although frankly there are a lot of things about 2.1 CSS that make no sense, so this is probably just another example. Just change it if you want to.

Code (index.css) Select Expand

h3.titlebg, h4.titlebg, .titlebg, h3.subbg, h4.subbg, .subbg {
background: none;
color: #555;
font-family: "Tahoma", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 6px 12px 5px 12px;
text-shadow: none;
}

[Julius_2000]

No, no, it's all good. I changed it when I discovered it. I was just wondering.

TBH I have no idea why a strong tag, or a .strong class, would be inside .title_bar anyway. All of the .title_bar instances have .titlebg directly inside them, and that has font-weight: bold; declared in index.css.

I had a look at the PHP info tab again and I can't find a titlebg after/inside the title_bar there.

But alrighty, no big deal at all.

[Antechinus]

Ah. So someone, somehow, did something silly (ie: inconsistent) with the markup, and then (someone else, probably) tried to fix it with CSS.

[Diego Andrés]

I don't think so, you just misunderstood the issue, that's all.

[Antechinus]

Lol. I am pretty sure I didn't.