write_html() list item bullets rendered in red

[ckamps]

Perhaps similar to this issue, #880, I'm finding that bullets associated list items are rendered in red.

Given this example:

from fpdf import FPDF

pdf = FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.write_html("""An unordered list:<ul>
  <li>apple</li>
  <li>banana</li>
  <li>orange</li>
</ul>""")
pdf.output("write_html_ul_example.pdf")

The bullets are rendered in red:

Is the following code responsible for this setting? If so, can this code be modified to honor pdf.set_text_color() as was apparently done in support of #880 ?

https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/blob/2.7.5/fpdf/html.py#L412C37-L412C47

[Lucas-C]

Hi @ckamps, and thank you for reporting this

Sadly, as you noticed, this red color is hacdoded in fpdf/html.py: https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/blob/master/fpdf/html.py#L512
Fun fact, it is like that since the initial version of fpdf2, forked from PyPDF: https://github.com/reingart/pyfpdf/blob/master/fpdf/html.py#L207

We should really make this configurable.
Would you be interested in contributing a PR?

can this code be modified to honor pdf.set_text_color() as was apparently done in support of #880 ?

Yes, text color should be honored by default.
As we already support a ul_bullet_char, we could also support an optional ul_bullet_color setting.

By the way, we also have a hardcoded color set for <blockquote> elements 😞 : https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/blob/master/fpdf/html.py#L498

[Lucas-C]

I opened PR #1126 to implement this