As someone who picked a color back in the days when we had to use an SB paintbrush, and has never found her way into justifying spending 100 CSC when I could do other things with it, I'd like to suggest that the text preview for the SB color change include a link. I can't remember offhand if default links are brown or if it's just my site layout (I use Masquerade), but I know that for something that costs actual money, it'd be nice to be able to see what link text looks like instead of just regular text. My color likes eating them -- and I don't want to change until I'm sure I'll be fixing the issue.

It's not a big thing, but I think it would be worth doing if it's not too difficult to implement.

EDIT: to clarify, it is currently possible to preview shoutbox text but not shoutbox links, when changing colors.

want to weigh in? can I ping the shoutbox regular group for this?

I'd support it. I have the ugliest bright teal color that I must have liked five years ago and I low-key hate talking in the SB cos its so blinding.

It'd be nice to test out a new color because I'm the same way with my CSC.

- I am all for this so I can see what darker colors would allow my text to be white, not black. Also I think pinging the regular group is okay.

Doing it so in case I'm wrong, I am the one that gets griped at!

I'm all for this. I've not changed my color in yeeeears. lmao

Never changed my shoutbox color personally, but I feel others would appreciate this. Supporting this idea.

This sounds fantastic - I tend to change my SB color for the seasons (I know, super gauche, but it's cute) and sometimes links get lost in my choice of colors. I'd love to see just a preview (or to change said link color, so it wouldn't clash entirely with my choice) ~SU

I'm confused on what this is for. I see a box with live color preview that shows when your text goes from white to black (which btw anything on the top half of the color chart will be black text, bottom half is white text).

[edit] NVM misread lol yeah the link preview needs to be added xD

But for anyone who cares, you CAN change your shoutbox link colors (and even text and background) with custom coding.

I'd love to see it, but what do I use to make it change for others so they can read it?

So along with the codes in my profile for the text family and size and stuff, you can also use this:

.shoutbox_shout a:link { color: ; } .shoutbox_shout a:visited { color: ; } .shoutbox_shout a:hover { color: ; } .shoutbox_shout a:active { color: ; }

To adjust links. It includes the username and comment bubble color as well! This is a lime green so you can see when the change is made.

And now I just added this code to my profile as well for others who want to use it while waiting to see if this change is implemented. And it does have a lot to do with what layout is being used ^^ I used to have brown links as well and I've got a deep purple background.

I fully support this :)

But does this change the color of the links I see, or the color of the links others see? I can see them well enough, but I've had people comment that they're hard to read.

Regardless, thank you! Clever CSS people. <3

It only changes what you see, as it's in your custom CSS. So while it's a good idea to have a link in the preview but it really is based on people's custom css or, if they don't have any, the layout they are using. I wish we had more control over our shoutbox attributes in general (like being able to use white text with the dark colors on the first half of the chart) but I'm sure it's too much work in the system. At least with custom CSS we can change it to our liking but everyone else will see the default. Hope this answers your question! ^^

yep, that's what I thought. Thank you~