Font color changed unexpectedly.
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So I’m wondering why my latest blog entry has suddenly change the default font color from black to blue? You may view the entry in question here:
Font changes from black to blue, starting with some email correspondence that I’ve appended to the entry, and which you may find quickly by searching for ” So I’ve decided…”.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Blue plus other colors.
That’s because you copypasted the mail(s) into the Visual editor. Never copypaste from other sources directly into the Visual editor, as you also introduce wrong code that messes things up. When you need to paste, paste into the Text editor.
You can select all that section in the Visual editor, copy, then switch to Text, delete everything that shows up after “I’m most sorry to tell you this”, paste the section you copied, Update. You might also need some additional editing afterwards, to change the styling. -
I didn’t copy from email. I copied from a plain text editor, which I’ve done for /all/ my blog entries since day 1 of joining WordPress. Yet, never any problem before this.
Plus: I always work in the default text editor. Not once have I ever used the visual editor.
So, in the text editor, I removed everything below the place that you instructed…then clicked on “update” Then copied the missing text back in and once more, clicked on “update.”
Still, the blue font appears. *sigh*
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If you switch from Visual to Text, you’ll see that the section starts this way:
<a name="email"><font color="darkgray">Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:57:24 Subject: </font><font color="darkgreen"><strong>So I've decided...</strong></font> From: Zeke To: Eleanor [ETC ETC]Further down there are several similar font color tags. Sorry, all these tags cannot be produced by themselves in the Text editor: they are only produced when you copypaste from other sources into the Visual editor.
Different way to correct the post: select all in the Visual editor, click the Remove Formatting button (row 2 tool 7), then switch to Text and delete this from the start of the section in question:
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The color tags I typed in, manually. I /never/ use the visual editor…but I already pointed this out! There is nothing wrong that I can see, in my coding.
The “a name” code is harmless, and I use that sometimes to point out a particular section to someone on my mailing list.
It seems that I know more about using WordPress than the advice given.
So I’ll just live with the blue-tinted text and move along. Thanks for giving it your best shot…but it’s more disinfomation than anything helpful.
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It seems that I know more about using WordPress than the advice given.
Very funny. Click my username and check my blog please.
The color tags I typed in, manually. I /never/ use the visual editor…but I already pointed this out!
You pointed this out, but you hadn’t pointed out that you type the color tags yourself.
The “a name” code is harmless
Really? The a tag is the tag for links, Mr know-more-about-using-WordPress: that’s what produces the blue color (and the underline upon hover).
So, since the other color changes are intentional, remove this from the start of the section:
<a name="email">
And remove the corresponding closing tag that has been absurdly been placed in the middle of the paragraph that starts with “Anywayz”. -
The anchor tag is most definitely /not/ for linking, when used this way. Its purpose is to direct readers to a particular section /within/ a linked page. There is no actual link between the anchor tag and its closure…if all you want is to have the page jump to anywhere else on the page, other than the top.
That way, my readers can view the second part of a piece that I decided to add at the last minute. Like so:
But I did figure out what the problem is. I forgot to /close/ that tag. See:
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http://www.boogiejack.com/html/html-anchor-tag.htmlThe NAME Attribute
The name attribute allows an anchor tag to be used to point to a specific place on a web page. You might link from the bottom of a long page to the top of the page, or link from an item in a Table of Contents to the corresponding item where it appears on the page.The syntax for using the name attribute is like this:
» or…
Table of ContentsYou can leave out the text between the “a” tags or use them to surround some text. The appearance of the text won’t change unless you have defined a hover color for your links. If you have, then the text will change to the hover color when a user’s cursor is on it. It will not be clickable, however, because this is not the link, this is the anchor a link will point to.
—You were incorrect advising me to remove the “a name” tag. The obvious solution was to close it, so the hyperlink blue tone would disappear.
And another strange glitch has occurred even after I corrected the name tag (just so the Fates could screw w/my head, I suppose):
My URL as originally typed:
did not bring me to that point on the page. So I changed it to:
And it works. No idea why “#email” wouldn’t work. It’s just a bunch of ASCII characters. Oh, well.
As for removing “the corresponding closing tag that has been absurdly been placed in the middle of the paragraph that starts with ‘Anywayz,”:
Good grief! It’s an “a href” link. The “a” you see appears one line above the rest of the code (at the very end of that line), only because the editing box’s right margin has forced the rest of that code onto the next line.
And this is exactly what I mean by your spreading disinformation.
So I checked your blog as suggested, and all I can say is: “Shame on you, WordPress Tips author!”
First, you persist in believing I use the visual editor, no matter what I’ve explained. Then you insist those font codes don’t show up by themselves. Obviously, I typed them in myself. You /insisted/ I had copied the text directly from an email page…which I did /not/. I first copied it into a text editor and cleaned it up, before posting it as a blog entry. The problem I had has /nothing/ to do with that.
You might very well excel in your WordPress advice for those who prefer the visual editor. But you do /not/ have any clear understanding how to code simple HTML by hand.
Silly me for just /assuming/ there’d be a WP volunteer who does.
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Even funnier!
1) Yes, I started with the Visual editor business, because that’s the case with most users, and yes, I insisted till you said you add the font tags yourself, because I gave you the benefit of doubt: I couldn’t believe that someone who tries to use code would be unable to figure out why some 250 paragraphs had turned blue and underlined upon hover, unable to see where the blue ended, and unable to see the stray tag at the point where the blue ended.
2) An “a” tag without the href attribute is still a link tag. I have even written an article on how to do the sort of link you’re talking about, so thanks for educating me on the “a” tag and the “name” attribute.
3) Thanks too for trying to convince us I cannot see an “a href” because it continues on a second line in your editor… No, if the initial “a name” tag was unclosed it wouldn’t make everything blue, and it certainly wouldn’t make it blue up to the middle of a paragraph. Your tag wasn’t unclosed, it was closed in the middle of the paragraph I pointed to. Here’s how the paragraph was before you corrected it:
Anywayz, this is why I've always been here for him, with such persistence and faith. Because I figured it out over 4 years ago. And I'm sure he knows all this, and has /no/ reason to hide this situation from me. In fact, if he actually <i>read</i> </a><a href="http://www.gay-bible.org/truetales/Larkin/LC_chapters.htm">The Larkin Chronicles</a>, I described the likelihood of his being kept, and explained why I thought this.Very nice of you to pretend that the extra closing tag after “read” wasn’t there, now that you removed it and put it where it should have been.
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