Thread: Search highlight color doesn't contrast enough.

How about highlighting the search words in another color than effing gray? It's a lot easier than reading through every single post trying to "decipher" where the dang grey words are.

@92_sEnAtRa I've made this post of yours a new thread since it deserves it's own topic.

I think most of us can agree it would be okay, or preferable even, to have the search terms highlighted better. I will change the highlight color to something better very soon unless others have good reason not to.

In the meantime, you could get familiar with your browser's built-in search feature (Ctrl + F) to find the highlighted words on the page.

I actually almost changed this a couple weeks ago, but it's really hard to find a color that works with our theme but is distinct from links and mentions. Maybe I can give the words a background color (I've seen that on other forums) or maybe make them bold... I'll figure out something that looks good, isn't confusing, and is still contrasting.

[highlight]Testing Highlight[/highlight]
No Highlight

This is hilarious. I've done a few things, each more aggressive than the last, each which should have worked. None have worked.

I'm going to leave the settings changed for a bit and see if maybe it's a caching issue.

I found it!
That was obnoxious...

@92_sEnAtRa and everyone else, let me know if the [highlight]search text highlighting[/highlight] is contrasting enough for you.

Here's a [highlight]test link[/highlight] with highlighting too.

If we don't like the background color, or the text color, or want bold or something we can do it. I prefer something similar to what it is now though. A light background and distinct but not jarring text color. This also affects how the linkbacks look, so I need to keep that in mind.

It looks good enough for me! I like that it highlights the text and changes the font color, that's distinctive enough to differentiate form the dull grey that blended in before.

Thanks a lot!