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(a)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(a)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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