Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
This article contents is Microsoft Copyrighted material.
©2005-©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Terms
of Use |
Trademarks
Article ID: 303154 - Last Review: January 31, 2007 - Revision: 3.3
Text May Be Unreadable in Internet Explorer if High Contrast Mode Is Enabled
This article was previously published under Q303154
If you use High Contrast mode while you are using a light-colored text on
a black background color scheme, some or all of the text on Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents may be unreadable in Internet Explorer. Although the text is displayed, it may be black on a black background, so that the text becomes invisible.
This problem can occur because under certain conditions, Internet Explorer does not change explicitly-defined font colors. If the
link=#000000 value is in the BODY tag of an HTML document, all links in the
document appear black, regardless of color scheme.
To work around this problem, configure Internet Explorer to ignore all font colors:
- In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the Tools menu.
- Click Accessibility, and then click to select the Ignore colors specified on Web pages check box.
- Click OK to confirm your selection.
- Restart Internet Explorer.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
For more information about accessibility features in Windows (including High Contrast mode), please view the following Microsoft Web site:
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Community Feedback System
Very often, it takes hours to solve a problem. Very often, you've looked high
and low, and have tried a lot of solutions. When you finally found it, chances
are, it was because someone else helped you. Here's your chance to give back.
Use our community feedback tool to let others know what worked for you and what
didn't.
Please also understand that the community feedback system is not warranted to be
correct, it's simply a system that we've built to let people try and help each
other. If something in a feedback response doesn't make sense to you, or you're
not comfortable making changes that the feedback talks about (like registry
edits), please consult a professional.
Thank you for using kbAlertz.com Feedback System.
-- Scott Cate