My PC has white text on a black background, BUT both browsers are set to show the colours set by individual websites (so, for example, my own site http://www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html comes up in the correct colours of white on dark blue), but in common with many others sites, W3's self-edit examples, such as ahem this one Try It Yourself Color Example, comes up as white on white, most probably because the site's styling sets the background colour explicitly to white, but fails to set the foregorund colour, which, being on a machine with white text, also defaults to white.

Surely, the number one rule of setting colours is either to set both background and foreground, or else neither, never just one or the other.

This 'half-baked' phenomenon is so widespread that I've now created a demo page for it ...
http://www.macfh.co.uk/Test/ColourSchemesBugs.html
... although it refers to MS sites, W3's exmples are just as bad.

Please remove the constant annoyance from an otherwise excellent series of sites by fixing this.

Really would like to see some action on this!

Yeah that's probably a pretty common problem online, a lot of people starting out don't know to set a foreground color. You wouldn't expect that from w3schools though. You can try to send a PM to kaijim, he's the admin and also helps run the site, or check here:

http://www.w3schools.com/about/about_helping.asp

The people who run the site just don't really visit the forum, for whatever reason.

Thanks, will look into that.


Sounds a bit like Google and Microsoft! (To be fair MS did eventually change their fora's normal text, but it was like trying to get blood out of a stone - I had to endure a great deal of abuse - and last time I used the site they still hadn't corrected their dialogue boxes.)