Bug 169372 - First table row's text does not recolour into white when the cell colour becomes black unlike the second table
Summary: First table row's text does not recolour into white when the cell colour beco...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2025-11-10 14:28 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2026-01-29 12:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Video (6.34 MB, video/mp4)
2025-11-10 14:29 UTC, Danat
Details
File in the video (7.53 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-11-10 14:29 UTC, Danat
Details
Video 2 (21.97 MB, video/mp4)
2025-11-12 08:50 UTC, Danat
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Description Danat 2025-11-10 14:28:57 UTC
Description:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fx1nLKEFKWQfwwp4VtSTYSmaRwahNuUB/view?usp=sharing

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the file
2. Select first row
3. Change its colour to black

Actual Results:
The text remains black and invisible due to fusion with background

Expected Results:
Makes it white


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
In the video
Comment 1 Danat 2025-11-10 14:29:20 UTC
Created attachment 203855 [details]
Video
Comment 2 Danat 2025-11-10 14:29:55 UTC
Created attachment 203856 [details]
File in the video
Comment 3 Danat 2025-11-10 14:39:42 UTC
I pasted the first table from Copilot.com AI agent and gave it table style, but I can't retrieve it
Comment 4 Sarah Lim 2025-11-12 08:02:26 UTC
The tables use different text colors. The one above is set to black, while the other uses the "automatic" color. This causes the background to appear differently when applied to both.
Comment 5 Danat 2025-11-12 08:41:57 UTC
(In reply to Sarah Lim from comment #4)
> The tables use different text colors. The one above is set to black, while
> the other uses the "automatic" color. This causes the background to appear
> differently when applied to both.

Yes, that changes it. It seems like if you paste text and style it as table - automatic does not apply to that text unlike if you make a table and than text in it

For context, I did not know about automatic and did not set it. The program did it and did not do it on its own
Comment 6 Danat 2025-11-12 08:50:05 UTC
(In reply to Sarah Lim from comment #4)
> The tables use different text colors. The one above is set to black, while
> the other uses the "automatic" color. This causes the background to appear
> differently when applied to both.

Table source - https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/Nmf5o3nevfdhuDtiSTTZk

Refer to Video 2 in attachments

This is a minor thing, but a bit confusing
Comment 7 Danat 2025-11-12 08:50:41 UTC
Created attachment 203887 [details]
Video 2
Comment 8 Sarah Lim 2025-11-12 10:08:44 UTC
(In reply to Danat from comment #5)
> (In reply to Sarah Lim from comment #4)
> > The tables use different text colors. The one above is set to black, while
> > the other uses the "automatic" color. This causes the background to appear
> > differently when applied to both.
> 
> Yes, that changes it. It seems like if you paste text and style it as table
> - automatic does not apply to that text unlike if you make a table and than
> text in it
> 
> For context, I did not know about automatic and did not set it. The program
> did it and did not do it on its own

The video isn't working for me. The "automatic" text color doesn't apply because the table style overrides it with its own color settings.
Comment 9 Danat 2025-11-12 10:57:57 UTC
(In reply to Sarah Lim from comment #8)
> (In reply to Danat from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Sarah Lim from comment #4)
> > > The tables use different text colors. The one above is set to black, while
> > > the other uses the "automatic" color. This causes the background to appear
> > > differently when applied to both.
> > 
> > Yes, that changes it. It seems like if you paste text and style it as table
> > - automatic does not apply to that text unlike if you make a table and than
> > text in it
> > 
> > For context, I did not know about automatic and did not set it. The program
> > did it and did not do it on its own
> 
> The video isn't working for me. The "automatic" text color doesn't apply
> because the table style overrides it with its own color settings.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ibaMj66VX39WytPAqBHsqba5p8E3IMf/view?usp=sharing

You may watch from cloud

I was criticised for using cloud, so I stopped, but it seems to be better in some ways

-no need to download
-no resolution loss for large videos
-no format incompatibility issues

Just works and causes no problems, so what's bad about it?
Comment 10 Buovjaga 2026-01-29 12:34:09 UTC
(In reply to Danat from comment #9)
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ibaMj66VX39WytPAqBHsqba5p8E3IMf/
> view?usp=sharing

In the video you are copying rich text from an external source. Probably the text colour has been set to black in the source.