Cannot change color of buttons

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Cannot change color of buttons

The discussion revolves around an issue where Erik_Manger is unable to update the colors of their buttons despite changing the color settings in the admin panel. awesomerobot suggests checking if the changes persist after refreshing the page and ensuring the correct color palette is selected from within the theme.

Erik_Manger discovers that they needed to assign the color palette to the style, which was not a requirement in the past. awesomerobot explains that this change occurred over a year ago, as the default “Light” theme is no longer an editable color palette and is treated as a preloaded default.

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Hi everyone, I cannot seem to be able to update the colors of my buttons. I changed the color settings in the admin, but the buttons are not updating accordingly like they are on a similar instance of Discourse being hosted through Discourse themselves.

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Two quick things to check first:

  1. After editing and saving a color, are the changes still there if you refresh the page, or do they revert back to their original values?

  2. Is the correct color palette selected from within the theme (/admin/customize/themes)?

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Thanks for this. I didn’t realize I had to assign the color pallet to the style. Was this a recent change?

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Yes, I don’t recall when it changed (over a year ago I think)… but the default theme, “Light,” would come with a preassigned color palette named “Light” so you didn’t specifically have to assign the colors.

Now “Light” is no longer an editable color palette, and is instead treated more like a preloaded default.