jjf Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 This one's puzzling me quite a bit. I guess I'm missing something obvious, but I sure can't see what it is.I'm modifying an open-source PHP timecard program for use on a Windows Business Server 2003. In Linux (where it was written and where I did most of the major modifications), everything displays fine. But when ported to Windows, the text color = the background color in both Firefox and IE. So PHP code like this:[code]<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="<?= $default->light_bg_color ?>" text="<?= $default->dark_text_color ?>" align="center" valign="top">[/code](where light_bg_color = "#ffffff" and dark_text_color = "#000000")creates source code like this:[code]<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" align="center" valign="top">[/code]But the output text is white! I found by changing the light_bg_color and dark_text_color values that no matter what I tell the text color to be, it displays in whatever color is set for bgcolor. For example, if I set my background to purple and my text to red, my background and text are both purple.I can't imagine why Windows would behave one way on this and Linux another. Is there a setting in my PHP.INI file that is incorrect?Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/16816-text-is-the-same-color-as-background/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjf Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 In case it will help, I will add some more complete source code:[code]<html><head><title>OATS Timecard</title><link href="css.php" rel="stylesheet" text="text/css"></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#085d8b"> <tr> <td class="topbarcell" valign="top" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"> <font color="#ffffff"> <a href="timecard.php?">Timecard</a> | <a href="jobs.php?actionID=show_jobs&">My Jobs</a> | <a href="personal_info.php?">Personal Info</a> | <a href="faq.php?">FAQ</a> | <a href="user.php?actionID=4&">Change Password</a> | <a href="admin.php?">Admin</a> | <a href="problem_report.php?">Report a Problem</a> | <a href="login.php?actionID=34&">Log Out</a> </font> </td> </tr></table><table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2 bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000 align=center valign=top><form method=post name="timecard" action="timecard.php?" onSubmit="return checkSubmit();"><tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"> <br/> <b>Welcome, <a class='dark' href=personal_info.php?>admin</a>. Please Choose An Action.</b><br>Aug 07 (Mon.) 2006, 1:43pm <br /> </td></tr>......[/code]I expect the background to be white and the text black. Instead both bg and text are white. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/16816-text-is-the-same-color-as-background/#findComment-70783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjf Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 D'OH! :PI figured it out. I had an extra line in my css.php file forcing the text color to take the background color: color: <?= $default->light_bg_color ?>; I have no idea what madness overtook me that I would add such a line. BTW, I much prefer developing in Linux. grep and diff (comparing my version to a backup version) could have solved this problem long ago. Maybe such tools exist in Windows, but I don't know them. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/16816-text-is-the-same-color-as-background/#findComment-70792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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