I'm pretty sure that no body CSS in core has changed recently. According to Firebug, the only background-color rule that is applied to body on en.wiki is the one that Isarra mentioned (which doesn't use !important). Are you trying this on English Wikipedia or a different wiki?
Ryan Kaldari
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeffrey Barish jeff_barish@earthlink.net wrote:
On Friday, 27 June 2014 10:24:57 Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Works for me. I added the background-color rule to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaldari/vector.css and it took effect immediately.
Ryan Kaldari
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Barish <
jeff_barish@earthlink.net>
wrote:
Until two days ago, I was able to modify the background color of a Wikipedia page with a style sheet containing the following:
body {
background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important;}
The line for color still works, but the line for background-color does not. Does anyone know what changed and what I have to do now to change the background color?
If this is not the right mailing list for this question, could someone direct me to the right one?
Thanks.
Jeffrey Barish
Ryan,
Thanks for your reply. It is certainly interesting to know that someone is able to get something related to work, although I don't really understand what it is you did. The lines of css that I provided still do not work for me. Perhaps it would help for me to provide a little more information about what I am doing as it most likely is different from what you tried.
I am viewing Wikipedia pages using webkit in an application that I wrote. I attach my style sheet by specifying user_stylesheet_uri. I know that webkit is reading my css because I could set the background color until 2 days ago and because I can still set the text color. I am guessing that a css upstream is now specifying the background color using !important so that my specification no longer takes effect. If so, then that specification is new because mine used to work. I don't understand how Wikipedia (or css, for that matter) works well enough to guess where that change might have been made or why. However, if my theory is correct, then I don't see how you are able to change the background color, unless the change that you made somehow is upstream from the hypothetical specification of background color using !important.
Jeff
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