I think some people actually consider the visiblity of spoiler text a feature rather than a bug.

Yeah, and it makes the font tag kind of spoiler font kind of annoying. (I have my spoilers set to grey so I can see them, but if someone hard codes theirs to white, I have to highlight.)

Why do I try to do things the hard way? Thanks for the thought Dana!

AFAICT there are no other font tags in use on the site, so what I did to get the Tags That Have Gone Rogue to behave is to add

font { color: #000; }

to my personal css. This overrides the "font color equals white" tags (on Chrome/Vista) and makes them match my background color. For those of you like Jessica who have half-hidden spoilers, then you'd just make the font color the same as your spoiler color.

People do occasionally use font tags to change color of a limited amount of text for effect, but it's rare.

I'm a reformed font tagger, but I'm sure I slip sometimes. Old html habits die hard. I still type <i> instead of quick editing for that type of formatting. Prolly ought to change that habit, too, huh? Are people using their css to deal with emphasis formatting?

I'm still using the font color=white HTML because the CSS stuff is way beyond me. Is there something else I should be doing? Or can someone tell me what exact code to put on my CSS style sheet to make my whitefont conform, or whatever?

If you use the quick edit for spoiler fonts--an 's' before the line you want to white font--it shouldn't mess with people's style sheets.

Right?

Oh! DUH. Thank you, Sue.

Or can someone tell me what exact code to put on my CSS style sheet to make my whitefont conform, or whatever?

What you put in your CSS style sheet affects only what you see, not what anyone else sees.

For spoilers, using the "s" quickedit is best, but second best is using the tag <span class="spoiler">stuffyouwantblinvisible</span>

I use html for everything because I've never been able to do the quickedit thing successfully. I get weird line breaks and inevitably the italics or spoilerfont gets frelled, I edit a kabillion times and generally feel like a failure.

How dire is it that I do the (s)text(/s) stuff instead of quickedit?

You may be spoiling people who don't want to be spoiled and making extra work for those that do want the spoilers.

How dire is it that I do the (s)text(/s) stuff instead of quickedit?

using the spoiler class as I posted above is exactly the same as using the s quickedit, except it takes a lot longer to type.