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Microsoft Lists Enhanced Rich Text fields issue with Teams Dark Mode
I have a few users that are using the Lists app in Microsoft Teams to track information and have a multi-line text column with enhanced rich text enabled. When a user enables dark mode in Microsoft Teams and fills out the field, it automatically sets the text color to white instead of changing how black text is presented on the screen. This is causing issues for their teammates because the white text shows on a white background for users with the default color settings in Teams.
Are there any workaround recommendations other than:
- Turn off the enhanced rich text on the column
- Request that users don't use dark mode in Teams
- Have the dark mode users interact with the List from a browser that isn't using dark mode
Here's a similar post from about a year ago - Microsoft Lists Enhanced Rich Text is not compatible with Teams' - Microsoft Community
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Yes, this is a known issue with Enhanced Rich Text in dark mode.
Quick workaround: ask users to use plain text formatting (no font color changes) in the rich text field. That way, Teams will handle text color based on the theme automatically.
Yes - but think how many thousands of hours people have spent searching forums to find this solution given that this is a known issue in a template that Microsoft is shipping to millions of people. It's a really basic issue that surely could be fixed with a very simple coding change (given this issue exists nowhere else in the Microsoft suite so the fix should already exist) so Microsoft should get their arse in gear and fix it. It's really shoddy. Reckon a decent AI could come up with the code in what, 10 seconds?
Bumping this again for what it is worth.
Also finding this as an issue.
And bumping again - really inexcusable, particularly given it's an issue in a standard template - "Issues List"
Bumping this item up again as it really puts limitations on the Teams/Sharepoint integration
- I see this is a year-old issue, but I would like to bump this up the priority. I have a user who due to an injury cannot use light-mode. The inability of a rich text box not being able to change font color based on dark mode is now an accessibility issue.
For the moment I instructed the user to use a light blue font color, but that's really not the point, and light blue doesn't make it much easier to see it on a white background.
