Add background color text styles to TextEdit

May 26, '05 09:45:00AM

Contributed by: Michel_X

TextEdit is useful because it is readable by every OS X user. The GUI is not ready for setting background colors of lines and text, but it is possible to set the background color using the Styles pop-up menu. But first, you'll need to enrich the styles with the RTF provided freely here: BackColor for TextEdit [1.3KB]

[robg adds: Here's a bit more info on how to make this work. Download the above file and open it in TextEdit. Select any of the color formatted exmaple words (i.e. the white-on-black word), click the Styles pop-up, and then click Other. In the next scree that opens, click Add to Favorites, then enter a name ("Black bacgkround") and click Add. When you open a new document (in RTF mode, obviously), you'll be able to see and use the newly-created styles. There's also a bit of info in the sample document itself on how you can create your own styles, but I didn't try that.]

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