Product description text colour does not show its colours

[tony_sar]

i see what you saying now , i have misunderstood your original problem.

using html editor , i can change colour , etc and it dose apply to my product.

unless your style sheet overriding something ..

im looking into this ..

[tony_sar]

which editor are you using to create your product description?

I just used HtmlArea . that what i have on my system . when i change colours , all are defined with in <span style="color: xxxx">
but yours is define as Font color ...

[oavs]

I use HTML area too. In fact I tough it might have been currupted so I deleted the whole folder on the server and then re uploaded from the original zen installation file zen 1.3.8.a

So files should be all current.

[tony_sar]

Thats odd, i have another test zencart , with all editors installed on it , no matter which editor i use, text colour always applies to <SPAN> tag and not <Font> tag. I highlight the text and changed the colour ..

I really have no idea what is going on .. sorry mate .. but will do more search on the net to see what i can get .

[oavs]

Thanks Tony

[tony_sar]

your page is working now .. the colour is changed and correct style attribute is been applied .. i guess uploading the new HTMLarea fixed the problem.

i looked on the net didn't find why this happened.. also , htmlarea no longer being supported by the author nor will be in zc version 2.0

[oavs]

No what happened was, client was writing in word copy /paste into HTML area. So I am taking the current <font> formatting then re applying formatting using HTML area. This now has fixed it....you thing clients tell you what they do ..:-)

Thanks for looking into it and for your time

[gjh42]

Note about external vs. inline styling -
Inline styling always takes precedence over external (stylesheet) styling, unless the stylesheet property is labeled "!important". So as you have seen, that was not the cause of the missing styling.
If you have a non-tech-savvy user creating descriptions with styling, the inline method is really the only practical way. It's bad practice for anybody professionally maintaining a website.

MS proprietary code strikes again! They think everybody should read things the way they format them...