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 <[email protected]> > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
