Today I was in trouble. My girlfriend had turned the user setting of the page background to black on her Opera. This she did to “save energy”, which sounds a bit trivial to me, as she has a small LCD.
Anyway, I tried to open a page, but I didn’t see anything but blue links and a few images. I wondered what was going on, but realized that it must be the black background doing its tricks here. I didn’t know where or how it could be set to white again, so I took a deep breath and opened the page in Internet Explorer. It loaded fine and everything was viewable again.
So this is a word of advice to all CSS coders: remember to give a background
color and a base text color to your body elements:
body {
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
}
Now user settings will be overwritten and texts are readable with some basic CSS and you can override these styles later on in your CSS files.
I also told my girlfriend to change the black background to a dark gray. It’s
still dark but I don’t need to open IE if a body accident has happened.