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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / Stationery / August 2004Can OE not override the bgColor?
It has been pointed out to me that when I initiate a new HTML message, or reply to someone else's, the bgColor is specified in the <body> tag. The bgColor specified is my Windows background colour! Is there a way to get OE to not specify/override the bgColor? Otherwise it seems I have to use white for my Windows background colour, reducing my ability to sit a the computer to less than 2 hours...  SignatureRegards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) Mark...(you need to be in Rich Text-HTML) Go to FORMAT, BACKGROUND, COLOR. Select any color. It adds a line to the script near the top. <BODY bgColor=#00ffff> If you want your own custom color, click on the SOURCE tab at the bottom of the screen and just change this HEX code. FYI, there's a neat freebie called Color Cop that will help you create/select different colors. It gives the RGB numbers as well as the HEX code. http://www.datastic.com/tools/colorcop/ Vicki It has been pointed out to me that when I initiate a new HTML message, or reply to someone else's, the bgColor is specified in the <body> tag. The bgColor specified is my Windows background colour! Is there a way to get OE to not specify/override the bgColor? Otherwise it seems I have to use white for my Windows background colour, reducing my ability to sit a the computer to less than 2 hours... SignatureRegards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) Thanks, Vicki, I was hoping for a way to stop OE from setting the bgColor at all. I have manually removed the bgColor attribute from the body tag for this post so you should find the background to be your Windows background colour. That is what I want by default, as seems to be the case for Outlook 2000, etc. (I have OE-QF, but its (experimental) colouring of HTML messages removes the HTML formatting in the headers that I want to keep for corporate email.) SignatureRegards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) > Mark...(you need to be in Rich Text-HTML) Go to FORMAT, BACKGROUND, > COLOR. Select any color. It adds a line to the script near the top. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > colour, > reducing my ability to sit a the computer to less than 2 hours... > It has been pointed out to me that when I initiate a new HTML message, or > reply to someone else's, the bgColor is specified in the <body> tag. The > bgColor specified is my Windows background colour! > > Is there a way to get OE to not specify/override the bgColor? OE is sometimes dependent on (global) Internet Options. Check in the Internet Options Colors dialog to see if you have checked Use Windows Colors (e.g. from IE: Alt-T,O,Alt-o,W) Similarly if that option is not checked you could try changing the default Background Color. (e.g. from IE: Alt-T,O,Alt-o,B,... (Just an idea for a test. I don't know what the consequences will be.) Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- > Otherwise it seems I have to use white for my Windows background colour, > reducing my ability to sit a the computer to less than 2 hours... > > It has been pointed out to me that when I initiate a new HTML > > message, or reply to someone else's, the bgColor is specified in [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Robert Aldwinckle This is a test of that idea. NB The text colours above are as provided by OE-QF. (It isn't adjusting the background colour.) I've now set IE to use black and white instead of "Windows Colors" and HTML format replies (to HTML or plain text messages) don't seem to be afflicted with either background colour! But it is still set in new messages. I haven't closed OE and reopened it after making the IE settings change yet, so there's possibly more to report yet... SignatureRegards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) > I haven't closed OE and reopened it after making the IE settings change yet, so there's possibly more to report yet... Now I have and, as you can see, replies to HTML messages that don't specify a bgColor get my windows colour again :-( So we've fixed it when I manually change the format of a plain text reply to HTML, which unfortunately is almost never... Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) You have a couple alternatives. You can make a template for new mail, just compose a new message and set the background color and then use File | Save As before sending and then you'll have a template. Or you can use a stationery file that dictates the background color. It doesn't look like there's an easy alternative. steve "Mark Hurd" <markhurd@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message news:OKnk150hEHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > I haven't closed OE and reopened it after making the IE settings change yet, so there's possibly more to report yet... Now I have and, as you can see, replies to HTML messages that don't specify a bgColor get my windows colour again :-( So we've fixed it when I manually change the format of a plain text reply to HTML, which unfortunately is almost never... Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) |
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