Pages list text color is White on White

[gls9879872]

there is no way in the Users>Profiles colors to change the text on Pages. Or even the background color for the whole admin dashboard. Only the Menu background color.

[gls9879872]

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[gls9879872]

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[sabernhardt]

Hi and welcome to WordPress Core Trac!

The bug of having white or very light text likely comes from a plugin (or possibly the theme).

Please try deactivating each plugin until the text color changes and then report it in the plugin's support forum. (Or if you are familiar with using your browser's inspect element feature, you could check for a light color in the styles instead of deactivating plugins.)

If you cannot replace the plugin that causes the unreadable text color, you could try one of the ​admin dark mode plugins such as WP Dark Mode or Dark Mode for WP Dashboard to get a dark background.

If your request is for a dark background color within Core, that potential feature is tracked on ticket:41928.

[sabernhardt]

Have you been able to determine what sets the font color?

[sumitbagthariya16]

QA update:

Upon cross-checking, it appears that "Ocean" is the chosen admin colour scheme. I was unable to replicate the problem with it.

​https://prnt.sc/oDkz2mx0VRzR
​https://prnt.sc/xsGVDrBn9dN-

[Ankit K Gupta]

Hello @gls9879872 I tried to replicate this issue and was unable to reproduce.
Could you please provide more information about it? or if you need any assistance to troubleshoot the issue feel free to share.

If you are also not able to reproduce this issue now can we close this?

[gls9879872]

I have replicated the same issues on every machine i have been on under the account that I created with ANY of the themes. On PAGES the text color is white or light gray. And cannot be read. I just need to know how to change either the background color for the PAGES or the text color.

[sabernhardt]

@gls9879872 Is the white text only on the Pages listing and not the same for Posts or Products lists?

In the images you shared, you apparently have some styles that override the following text colors for regular text and links within the list table.

.widefat th, .widefat td {
  color: #50575e;
}
a {
  color: #0073aa;
}

To determine the cause, please try to ​inspect element on the links and other text within the table. That should point to what adds the white text.

The text color likely comes from one of the plugins, though I did not find any problems with Contact Form 7, Elementor, Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails, WPForms Lite, WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Compare and YITH WooCommerce Wishlist activated.

I cannot test the Rozer theme or the WooZone plugin, and you may have other plugins that are not visible from the front.

[sabernhardt]

Pages list with readable colors

[gls9879872]

yes. only on the PAGES section. all other parts of the admin site are good to go.

[gls9879872]

Not even worried about this anymore. You can go ahead and close this ticket.

[sabernhardt]

If you do not want to determine the cause, you could still try adding admin styles via a plugin such as ​Simple Custom CSS and JS.

The following CSS probably would be enough to revert the text color on the Pages screen (only):

.post-type-page .widefat.pages th,
.post-type-page .widefat.pages td,
.post-type-page .widefat.pages a {
  color: revert;
}