Is there a way to change the text display colors on the sold items page?

[richard1rst]

On my Items for Sale page and my Sold Items page the listings are shown in a medium blue text on an almost but not quite white background. Sad to say that is getting increasingly harder fir these old eyes to see clearly. Is there a way to make the text an actual BLACK for better contrast? I know I can enlarge the page (which I have done) but if I make it any larger then the information overflows the page and it is constantly left arrow/right arrow to see what I need to see.

[goodluckselling]

No options on the eBay site.  Maybe you could change some display settings or you can zoom in on your display?  Control key and + or - keys will zoom in and out.

Good Luck Selling!

[richard1rst]

Yes, I kind of thought that was my only option. Just a little wishful thinking. Thanks,.

[eburtonlab · Accepted solution]

@richard1rst 

Some random thoughts regarding text contrast.

I do not know of a simple way to change the contrast of a web page. You can probably change the color of the text using a CSS hack, but that would likely have to be done for each page or site, and I do not know how to do it.

What browser are you using? I know that Chrome has an extension called "High Contrast" that sounds like it might be useful. It can invert the color of text but not photos. There are other extensions or plug-ins that allow you to change the color scheme of a page, but there is no real guarantee that the page will render correctly. Might be worth looking into, though.

It might also be possible to find an alternative to the new blue/off-white color scheme by bookmarking and using an old link, like this old "Sold" link:

https://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextSold&ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK:M...

or this "All Selling" page:

https://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextAllSelling&ssPageName=STRK:ME:...

These links appear to be an old format for me, but might look different to you depending on how your account has been set up.

[richard1rst]

  BINGO !!!!!!

The second link you provided brought up the sold items page in BLACK TEXT oh so MUCH better than that light blue). Oh so much easier to read.  Just what I was looking for.

THANK YOU !

[eburtonlab]

@richard1rst 

You are most welcome! Glad to hear the link was what you were looking for.

I think a lot of folks are similarly not happy with the blue/off-white "Fisher-Price" design, and are looking for alternatives.

[berserkerplanet]

eburtonlab provided you an alternate page to use, but I'll toss this out there for anyone that wants to play with it.

You can change the colors (or pretty much anything you want) on almost any page. To do it automatically requires something like the Stylish or similar addon and some CSS rules (my approach), and can also be done using JavaScript via GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey addon (which I also do when things CSS can't do are needed, but is a sucky was to perform styling)

Here is a generic JavaScript bookmarklet that can "do things" to a page. I grabbed it off the interwebs instead of writing one from scratch, and modified it slightly. It is crude as it targets only a few things and targets and modifies them generically. The values of the colors can be changed to suit, and some of the actions can be removed if not needed or neutered by changing the value  to "initial" in some cases.

javaXscript:(function(){
var newSS,styles='* {background-color:#f0f0f0%20!important;
color:#000000%20!important;line-height:1.7em%20!important}
:link, :link * {color:#000055%20!important; font-weight:600 !important;}
:visited, :visited * {color:#6666CC%20!important}';
if(document.createStyleSheet){document.createStyleSheet("javaXscript:'"+styles+"'");}
else{newSS=document.createElement('link');newSS.rel='stylesheet';
newSS.href='dataX:text/css,'+escape(styles);document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);}})();

Copy the code, create a new bookmark on your browser bookmarks toolbar or menu, paste the code in as the location, remove the X from javaXscript in both places it appears, remove the X from dataX:text/css, name the bookmark FontColors or whatever and save.

When you click it, it will restyle whatever page it is on. If you don't like the colors you can edit the bookmarklet and change the color values, or add new targets and actions.

For example, it forces the page background color to be #f0f0f0 which is a slightly gray off white (#fffff is white, and #000000 is black. #ff0000 is red, #aaaaaa is a medium gray, etc RGB hex triplets). To make the background color a pinkish white, change #f0f0f0 to f5f0f0 for example (the red value bumped from f0 to f5)

Ask if there are any questions about specific changes or additions.