KB Article Theming and Support for Dark Mode
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‎08-14-2023 05:48 AM
Hello! I am trying to gain some insight on how theming (Core UI) is functioning for those using the built-in Dark Mode theming; specifically, when dealing with the KB. We are using Utah currently. I am namely wondering if anyone else is observing the behaviors displayed below and/or found a way to work around what I am getting in my third point below:
1. The article body editor remains white; inconsistent with Dark UI theming:
2. If we paste any text from Microsoft Word, it defaults to black text with white background styling; you can only see this by viewing the element.style tag (code editor box styling code) as a result of my above point, which leads me to the point listed below. Note, if we paste in as text-only then no formatting is carried over.
3. Unless a technician sets 'Text Color' and 'Background Color' to unconfigured (the one with the 'X' in it), then when they publish an article, it displays as the following white-background with black text once published and the dark mode theme is applied:
I realize that this could be some weird interaction between the SNOW KB and Word, however what's intriguing me is that this behavior occurs even if I have Word set to Dark or Light mode theming itself, so I can't quite figure out why SNOW is always seeing theming in the above behavior, despite what styling the source content has in Word.
Thanks!
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‎08-18-2023 04:58 AM
You're welcome! I completely understand that you were after understanding the reasoning here. Truthfully, we have a bunch of team members who sit in windowless buildings with the lights either turned down of off entirely - bringing up a blazing white page on a monitor under those conditions is namely why dark mode universally is preferred.
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‎08-16-2023 02:44 PM
Interesting. I wonder if it has to do with how your organization has configured it SNOW?
Just for curiosity, I changed the theme on my organization's instance. I did not encounter the same the issue where the article body displaying as white.
When pasting any text from Microsoft Word, I have found that removing formatting has worked best. Then using the text editor in SNOW to format the article.
When I keep the formatting from Microsoft Word there tends to codes that gets added. Going back to fix it is cumbersome which potentially affects the appearance of the article.
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‎08-18-2023 05:07 AM
Thats precisely what I was after Jenny - I am wondering if this deals with how we have it configured. That screenshot you shows displays a consistent UI that I was expecting. Out of curiosity, we are applying theming using Profile Icon (upper-right)>Preferences>Theme>Dark, as shown here:
I take it this is how you have theming applied?
I hear you on pasting from Word too - we found unformatted is generally the best as well, as you spend more time clearing out hidden formatting otherwise. Thanks for the reply!
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‎03-18-2024 07:06 PM
Yes, this is correct. In my organization, there is only 2 themes available - default and dark