Dark mode readability and new color preference pages

Dark mode readability and new color preference pages

Two improvements aimed at users running Eclipse in a dark theme:

Plain text now follows Eclipse’s editor theme. The HTML, embedded JavaScript, and embedded CSS scanners used to set the default text color to a hardcoded value (pure black by default), which made plain content — HTML body text, CSS selectors and braces, JavaScript identifiers — render black on a dark background and effectively disappear. These scanners now defer to Eclipse’s standard editor foreground color, which is theme-aware. In dark mode the same text shows up in light gray; in light mode it stays dark, exactly as before.

As part of this change, the “Foreground Color” field in Preferences → Parsley has been removed — it was the setting that previously hardcoded the black default and is no longer needed. To customize the editor’s default text color, use the standard Eclipse setting at Preferences → General → Editors → Text Editors → Colors and Fonts.

New “Embedded CSS” and “Embedded JavaScript” preference pages under Preferences → Parsley, exposing color settings that previously had no UI:

• Embedded CSS: Comment, Property, Value
• Embedded JavaScript: Comment, String, Keyword

If you’ve been irritated by the dark-blue CSS property color on a dark editor background, this is where to fix it.

This is a first readability pass. The remaining tag/attribute/binding colors and the `` background tint are still tuned for light themes — theme-aware defaults for those are next.

From the changelog, May 4, 2026.