Markdown editor is white on white

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    nmsscribe · Member ·

    I just discovered the markdown editor option for the Jetpack plugin. But when I tried it, I found only a blank white space that didn’t do anything. I opened up my browsers web developer tools to figure out if there’s something I could fix myself. I discovered that the CSS ‘background-color’ for the Markdown textarea was set to white, but the ‘color’ was set to ‘inherit’.

    I’m using the TwentyTwenty theme, with a darker color background. The theme seems to automatically set the text color to white when the background is dark. I suspect this means that the ‘inherit’ in the textarea will give the text a white color from the theme.

    Even if I change the theme to get around this, I think this points to a bug in the Jetpack plugin, since this is going to be a problem for many themes. The color for the markdown textaarea should be set to a contrasting color from white, rather than depend on ‘inherit’.

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  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    It sounds like you are needing help with the Jetpack plugin, but have landed on the support forum for WordPress.com sites instead. Can you please report this issue to Jetpack support by asking here? Thanks!

    https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack/

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