After assigning a text color - we need to get back to the default color

[q2apro]

When you select a text color and write the word, then want to deselect it, there is no option:

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    Let us start to write. Now we assign a color before we write the colored word: <br />
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<p>
    <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">red is assigned, let's deselect it<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> oh I had to choose black as there is no &quot;default color&quot; option!</span></span><br />
</p>

Instead of the deselect - which is missing - I have to select the black color as default (black matches my default CSS color). This creates several color spans for black that are unnecessary.

I suggest to add a feature that CKEditor calls "automatic", we could call it "default":

It is important to prevent all the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. In a long text of one of my users there were about 20 occurences of this black-span.

[samclarke]

You can use the clear styling to reset the colour but you're right it could really do with an automatic option.

I also think reducing the number of default colours and increasing the box size might be a good idea too.

[q2apro]

I also think reducing the number of default colours and increasing the box size

That is what I did here: http://www.gute-mathe-fragen.de/ask

[q2apro]

Here is the screencast gif for the "color span bug":

[q2apro]

Meanwhile my users have generated 5440 posts containing multiple <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">...</span> tags. Kind of problematic.

Is there no solution, no workaround?

PS: I have also noticed that <br> tags get the color assigned: <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> - This is definitely a bug.

[q2apro]

Push: Is there any solution in sight?

[Eldenroot]

@samclarke - should be fixex ASAP, quite annoying!

[samclarke]

This seems to be two issues in one. The duplicate span tags issue is fixed by #804 and I've made a new issue for the automatic colour option (#858).