topic Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour in Dashboards & Visualizations

Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

mscomms — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:55:04 GMT

Hi All,

I have a stats table which I have set up to use as an alarm display where each line is coloured to donate the severity.

This is working fine except that when the table row colour is red or blue the text in the cells is white which my users don't like they want the text to stay black for all background colours.

This seems to be a default behaviour, I have looked round the documentation and asked my friend google but cant fins a way to suppress it.

Can anyone point me towards a solution.

Cheers Mike

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

mscomms — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:58:33 GMT

Example of font colour attached

Image showing change in font colour

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

ITWhisperer — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:18:08 GMT

Have you tried using CSS to set the colour to black for the table data cells?

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

mscomms — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:21:07 GMT

@ITWhisperer Yes I have tried that, the colour seems to change as the colour saturation increases

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

ITWhisperer — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:35:42 GMT

Can you share your SimpleXML for this? Do you have the CSS in the SimpleXML or separately in a .css file?

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

mscomms — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:39:12 GMT

This is an example dashboard showing the issue

<dashboard> <label>Text Colour</label> <row> <panel> <table> <title>Colour vs text</title> <search> <query>| makeresults | eval whiteBg="White Background", redBg="Red Background" | table whiteBg redBg</query> <earliest>-24h@h</earliest> <latest>now</latest> </search> <option name="drilldown">none</option> <format type="color" field="redBg"> <colorPalette type="map">{"Red Background":#FF0000}</colorPalette> </format> </table> </panel> </row> </dashboard>

You can see the whiteBG has black text and the redBG has white text, I have raised a case on this as well

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

mscomms — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:40:14 GMT

On my live dashboard the css is in the simplexml

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

ITWhisperer — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:46:59 GMT

<dashboard> <label>Text Colour</label> <row> <panel> <html> <style> #table td { color: black !important; } </style> </html> <table id="table"> <title>Colour vs text</title> <search> <query>| makeresults | eval whiteBg="White Background", redBg="Red Background" | table whiteBg redBg</query> <earliest>-24h@h</earliest> <latest>now</latest> </search> <option name="drilldown">none</option> <format type="color" field="redBg"> <colorPalette type="map">{"Red Background":#FF0000}</colorPalette> </format> </table> </panel> </row> </dashboard>

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

mscomms — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:52:20 GMT

I think I have foungd it you need the !important after the color: black

Re: Table cell font colour (color) changing depending on cell background colour

ITWhisperer — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:57:10 GMT

Yes, that's what I showed as I thought you may have forgotten it 😀