<pre> tags in dark mode
Reported by Alex B | July 14th, 2020 @ 08:16 AM
Receiving an HTML email with
tags in dark mode results in white on a very light grey panel, which is unreadable.
I can not attach a screenshot of the problem to the ticket, the ticket system says "Upload Quota Reached, please notify the account owner."
However, here is a sample message from the raw HTML view:
The message is sent using:
/command/to/produce/htmloutput|mailx -a 'Content-Type: text/html'
-r myemail -s "Subject" myemail
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Alex B July 14th, 2020 @ 08:18 AM
The HTML in the original ticket got interpreted by the ticket system. here's my attempt to resubmit.
Receiving an HTML email with
tags in dark mode results in white on a very light grey panel, which is unreadable.
I can not attach a screenshot of the problem to the ticket, the ticket system says "Upload Quota Reached, please notify the account owner."
However, here is a sample message from the raw HTML view:<body> <div id="main"> <div class="message"> <div class="bodypart" unique_id="95157" type="text" subtype="html" disposition="inline"> <!DOCTYPE html> <pre> +-----+------------------+---------+-----------+---------+ | ID | datetime | ping_ms | down_mbit | up_mbit | +-----+------------------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 153 | 2020-07-13 11:06 | 45 | 14.4 | 10.4 | | 154 | 2020-07-13 12:06 | 43 | 4.6 | 10.3 | | 155 | 2020-07-13 13:06 | 46 | 13.1 | 10.3 | | 156 | 2020-07-13 14:06 | 46 | 11.1 | 10.1 | | 157 | 2020-07-13 15:06 | 47 | 6.3 | 10.3 | | 158 | 2020-07-13 16:06 | 44 | 6.1 | 10.5 | | 159 | 2020-07-13 17:06 | 44 | 5.7 | 10.3 | | 160 | 2020-07-13 18:06 | 48 | 7.1 | 10.5 | | 161 | 2020-07-13 19:06 | 44 | 4.0 | 10.4 | | 162 | 2020-07-13 20:06 | 45 | 7.5 | 10.4 | | 163 | 2020-07-13 21:06 | 50 | 4.5 | 9.8 | | 164 | 2020-07-13 22:06 | 54 | 2.6 | 8.3 | | 165 | 2020-07-13 23:06 | 44 | 4.6 | 10.4 | | 166 | 2020-07-14 00:06 | 44 | 8.3 | 10.3 | | 167 | 2020-07-14 01:06 | 43 | 29.0 | 10.4 | | 168 | 2020-07-14 02:06 | 44 | 29.3 | 10.5 | | 169 | 2020-07-14 03:06 | 47 | 32.3 | 10.5 | | 170 | 2020-07-14 04:06 | 44 | 34.1 | 10.4 | | 171 | 2020-07-14 05:06 | 44 | 35.6 | 10.3 | | 172 | 2020-07-14 06:06 | 47 | 30.4 | 10.3 | | 173 | 2020-07-14 07:06 | 49 | 14.3 | 10.3 | | 174 | 2020-07-14 08:06 | 45 | 17.1 | 10.4 | | 175 | 2020-07-14 09:06 | 45 | 4.8 | 10.3 | | 176 | 2020-07-14 10:06 | 44 | 9.8 | 10.3 | +-----+------------------+---------+-----------+---------+ </pre> </div> </div> </div> </body>
The message is sent using:
/command/to/produce/htmloutput|mailx -a 'Content-Type: text/html' -r myemail -s "Subject" myemail -
Alex B July 14th, 2020 @ 08:25 AM
I'm so sorry about the awful formatting. I give up. Happy to provide it through other means.
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John McCall March 17th, 2021 @ 07:22 PM
I've seen this same thing. I'm a programmer, so I send a lot of emails with backticked words / triple-backticked blocks. Being able to compose in Markdown is fantastic, but if it results in mail that's unreadable in Mail.app, I basically can't use it.
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John McCall March 17th, 2021 @ 07:32 PM
It looks like switching to Simple text styling fixes the problem. Standard styling seems to unconditionally add a white background to
<code>and<pre>blocks that makes them unreadable when reading in dark mode in Mail.app.
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