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Would it be possible to apply the CSS in a message style to outgoing text? Effectively, this would be a check-box like "Show received message colors", except "Show sent message colors" (and fonts, ideally). I bring this up because I'm working on a style with a black background, and when my black outgoing text enforces its blackness (which isn't always, but that's another story) it disappears, despite appropriate CSS to turn it another color. (Incoming text works as it should.)

(Sorry if this was covered in the previous 'text colors' thread - I followed that, and don't remember all it covered, since it got a bit convoluted/repetitive.)

Perez wrote:Would it be possible to apply the CSS in a message style to outgoing text? Effectively, this would be a check-box like "Show received message colors", except "Show sent message colors" (and fonts, ideally). I bring this up because I'm working on a style with a black background, and when my black outgoing text enforces its blackness (which isn't always, but that's another story) it disappears, despite appropriate CSS to turn it another color. (Incoming text works as it should.)

(Sorry if this was covered in the previous 'text colors' thread - I followed that, and don't remember all it covered, since it got a bit convoluted/repetitive.)

If you remove formatting from your messages (Format Menu -> Restore default formatting), Adium should honor the message style's CSS for outgoing messages.

Yes, but. I feel like that's not the best solution; I (or someone else) might well want to send (dark) colored text, but not have it show up in a particular dark-background-ed message style.

Also, this doesn't completely (easily) work: If I'm typing along in my TNR 10pt, and then color it, and then want to get it visible again, I chose 'resore default font'. Now the CSS applies, and it's visible, but it's Helvetica Regular 12pt. If I click on TNR 10pt in my recently used fonts, it turns set-black again (invisible); I have to go find my font in the regular font list for it not to remember coloring.

I know I'm being nit-picky, though - there's a solution that works, and isn't too hard - and if you don't add an 'ignore outgoing font' option it won't be earth-shattering. I do think such an option has its place, though.