Working on a very dark skin, and changed the text input area and message buffer area from white to black.
This was done in the 920 style file. element[id=atom(inputareacont)][class="DefaultWallpaper"] for the text input and convhistory[class="DefaultWallpaper"] for the message buffer.
The problem is that the text is also black, so I can't see what I'm typing and I can't see what people are typing to me.  I added a foreground value to both elements and set it to white, but it didn't do anything. Anyone know where I'd change the text color for input and messages?

ok heres what you do, dont do a foreground colour its the background colour to focus on, set the background to use an argb

Background:argb(70,255,255,255);

this is what me and jason did, what this does is you can see your dark skin in the background but youll have a transparent white background thats just white enough to make the black text visible, the first number is the alpha number so if 70 is enough just increase it until you find the right balance, in our christmas and st patricks themes we used an alpha of 100 in convo window, however in some really bright themes in contact list i had to use a black background with a alpha of 70 .

its all about finding the perfect balance to suit the style your trying to acheive.

if you get stuck give me a shout and ill be happy to help you further.

It should work the wa stuart said as thats the way we both changed it in our skin pack

Yeah, that makes the black text visible.

Ideally I'd like to change the text to white though. I have white text on black background on the contact list, but I can't locate where to change all of the text in the message window to white.

try editing this one

quote:

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Element[Class="HIGStandardFont"]
{
Foreground:rcclr(20014);
Fontface:rcstr(20071);
Fontsize:rcint(20102)pt;
}

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