Email notifications on Android dark mode devices lose contrast in preformatted and quoted text

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Priority/Severity: Low

Platform: Thunderbird 12.1 on Android and K-9 Mail

Description: For mobile devices running Android, email notifications received in Thunderbird/K-9 don’t display usable contrast in the message body:

  • Preformatted text appears as white text on a light-grey background.
  • Quoted text ([quote]) also appears as white text on a light-grey background, making it unreadable.

Reproducible steps:

  1. Ensure Android device is running in “Dark Mode”.
  2. Open a Discourse-generated email notification that contains either preformatted text or quoted text in the post body.
  3. View white text on a light-grey highlight background color.

Example Screen Shot:

Screenshot of described problem from a Discourse Meta announcement post received in the target system profile.
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Bug report updated to also include quoted text and the reference to K-9 Mail (based on Thunderbird).

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We’ve made a minor change that I hope will avoid this issue

We were using an attribute selector in CSS for these blockquote/code/pre styles, and email support for them are a bit patchy, so here we’ve switched to a element selector. If you continue to have issues after updating please let us know and we’ll do some more digging!

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Presuming that this patch has already landed on Meta, based on the email notification I just received for this topic, the change LGTM! Thanks.

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It has, thank you for confirming!