Restore the drop down "Text Color" option

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    newdepartedflights · Member ·

    Is there any possibility that “Text Color” may be returned to the drop down menu?

    Why was it even taken away and replaced with the “Highlight” to begin with?

    The “Highlight” function makes the text shift. I understand WHY this is happening but I do not understand why this change was made and why you cannot restore the original “Text Color” function.

    This is very frustrating.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    divyaab · Member ·

    Hi There,

    I could understand your frustration. As I checked the website URL and can’t find the drop-down menu. Could you please confirm the website URL for which you are facing the issue?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    This change came WordPress.org where the WordPress software, which includes the editor, is made. They made this change so that the text color and text background color could be controlled by the same menu item, and using the same underlying HTML code.

    The issue you’re experiencing is because of the change in the HTML used, not because of the change in what the feature is called in the menu. So even if they were to decide to split it out into two separate menu items again at some point, that won’t fix the spacing issue as they wouldn’t change the underlying HTML: As I explained in your previous thread at https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/changing-font-color-causes-text-to-shift-to-right/ a couple weeks ago, the mark HTML tag the setting uses now is better HTML than the span tag that was used previously, so it’s highly unlikely the developers over on WordPress.org would shift back to using the old, less-contextual HTML.

    Our developers are looking into what we can do from the theme’s end to prevent that extra space being added. Once we have more information about that, we’ll post an update in your other thread. But for now there’s no way to prevent this without using custom CSS code.

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