FlyerTalk Forums - Dark Mode and Text Color

When text is copy/pasted, depending on the source of the copied text it may contain embedded color tags, hence when it is pasted into a post, the pasted text (and anything you type after it) will appear in that color.

This can be problematic because if the source text was black or any other dark color close to black, it will appear essentially invisible to people using dark mode.

Similarly if the text was white or any other light color close to white, it will appear essentially invisible to people using light mode.

Technical solutions to this inherent problem exceed the scope of this wiki, but here are some workarounds.

Before the fact: when pasting, use "Paste as plain text" -- this causes all styling (colors, italics, underline, font size etc.) to be omitted when the text is pasted.

if pasting using your mouse, right click menu => "Paste as plain text"
the keyboard shortcut for this is usually Ctrl-Shift-V or Command-Shift-V
on mobile devices you should see "Paste as plain text' as an option when pasting, though it may require a long press or using the 3-dots menu

After the fact: if you are made aware that text in your post is invisible to some readers, you can click Edit on your post and then

Easy way: if you have the full editor enabled in your FlyerTalk preferences, select the affected text (or Ctrl-A, Command-A, or long press => select all), click/tap the text color menu (looks like a capital A with an underline) and select "Automatic"
Hard way: click on the Source button and manually remove the bracketed COLOR and /COLOR tags.