Joomla 5 and CF 8 Backend Design

Fredolino 28 Mar, 2025

Joomla 5 has a dark design in the backend by default.CF 8, however, has a problem with this.A lot of text and headings are no longer legible because the background and font are white.This particularly affects the CF page if you want to install demo forms. Neither headings nor descriptions are visible here.

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Screenshot 2025-03-28 at 12-21-38 ChronoForms 8 - dev-brandenburg-berlin - Administration.png
Fredolino 30 Mar, 2025

Is there a plan to customize the font color or background in the CF 8 backend?

Things can't stay this way.Adjusting the CSS in Joomla's user.css doesn't work, in any case.

You can change it in template.min.css, but it only lasts until the next update.

Max_admin 31 Mar, 2025

I'm investigating this but I do not have a quick solution, it will need few changes to the CSS in order to work correctly on both color versions

Currently it works well on the default light version

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Fredolino 31 Mar, 2025

By default, Joomla 5 has a dark theme. :-)

Max_admin 31 Mar, 2025

maybe a recent update ? because I installed it few times before and it was never dark :)

But I will try to adjust the CSS for that

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Fredolino 31 Mar, 2025

Sorry, it works. I tested again. :-)

Fredolino 31 Mar, 2025

Sorry, the JavaScripts remain in the HTML if the editor isn't activated afterward.

If the editor is activated later and the content is saved, the JavaScripts and Font Awesome icons will be removed.

Max_admin 31 Mar, 2025

correct, the editor will remove the script tags

for icons you can use {icon:icon_name} any where, it's a v8 shortcode

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