Table cell font colour (color) changing depending ...

mscomms · ‎06-08-2021

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

mscomms · ‎06-08-2021

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

ITWhisperer · ‎06-08-2021

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

mscomms · ‎06-08-2021

On my live dashboard the css is in the simplexml

mscomms · ‎06-08-2021

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

ITWhisperer · ‎06-08-2021

<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>

ITWhisperer · ‎06-08-2021

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

mscomms · ‎06-08-2021

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

ITWhisperer · ‎06-08-2021

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

mscomms · ‎06-08-2021

Example of font colour attached

Image showing change in font colour

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

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