Thursday, February 18, 2010

No white text or other light colors on Craigslist

Something I just discovered: You cannot use white text (or other light colored text) using HTML FONT tags on Craigslist!

If you try to use something like color="white" color="#FFFFFF"> in a FONT HTML Tag, it will simply be removed from your code.

Other font colors like "RED" are supported. A little testing shows that if the color is #CC____ or darker, it works fine. Otherwise, nope.

Probably this is to subvert some businesses that were hiding keywords (white text on a white background) to improve their ads coming up in google. Unfortunately, it makes using darker backgrounds in Craigslist ads sort of Iffy.

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