The type and status portion of the router does not use the correct darker text color

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Version Number: 9.0.95-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?:
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @shawnborton
Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): Expense

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to report search > Expenses
2. Click Search and enter anything to search

Expected Result:

The type and status portion of the router use the correct darker text color

Actual Result:

The type and status portion of the router does not use the correct darker text color

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @289Adam289

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @OfstadC (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[linhvovan29546]

🚨 Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2025-02-08 03:25:54 UTC.

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

The type and status portion of the router does not use the correct darker text color

What is the root cause of that problem?

In SearchAutocompleteInput, we use a markdown input.

App/src/components/Search/SearchAutocompleteInput.tsx

Line 213 in b0b7709

type="markdown"

And the styling is applied via the useMarkdownStyle hook. useMarkdownStyle uses syntax color, and in light mode, the color is set to productLight800, which appears lighter than expected.

App/src/hooks/useMarkdownStyle.ts

Lines 30 to 32 in b0b7709

	syntax: {
	color: theme.syntax,
	},

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We can update the syntax color in light mode to a darker text color, such as productLight900, but this change would apply to all markdown inputs.

App/src/styles/theme/themes/light.ts

Line 25 in b0b7709

syntax: colors.productLight800,

A safer solution is to introduce a new prop styles, to override markdownStyle.

App/src/hooks/useMarkdownStyle.ts

Lines 29 to 32 in b0b7709

	const styling = {
	syntax: {
	color: theme.syntax,
	},

function useMarkdownStyle(message: string | null = null, excludeStyles: Array<keyof MarkdownStyle> = defaultEmptyArray, styles)
....
            syntax: {
                color: theme.syntax,
                ...styles?.syntax,
            },

// Alternatively, we can override it like this:
if (styles) {
    Object.keys(styles).forEach((key) => {
        if (styles[key]) {
            // Merge nested objects
            styling[key] = { ...styling[key], ...styles[key] };
        }
    });
}

Then, in SearchAutocompleteInput, we can override the markdown style like this:

markdownStyle={{syntax:{color:theme.darkerColor}}} //The color based on design 

App/src/components/TextInput/BaseTextInput/index.tsx

Line 89 in b0b7709

const markdownStyle = useMarkdownStyle(undefined, excludedMarkdownStyles);

and native as well

    const markdownStyle = useMarkdownStyle(undefined, excludedMarkdownStyles,inputProps?.markdownStyle);

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

N/A, UI bug

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A
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[samranahm]

Related to #56560

[289Adam289]

Hi, I am Adam from SWM and I would like to work on this issue. It is a regression from my PR #56243

cc @luacmartins for visibility

[OfstadC]

Thanks @289Adam289 !

[luacmartins]

@289Adam289 before you start working on this. Let's first agree on the expected behavior since this is the expected behavior described in the design doc.

[shawnborton]

The only thing I think we need to change is just change the color from textSupporting to our regular text color. Any normal text that's in the router should just use our normal text color.

[289Adam289]

We've added quite a bit of code just to change syntax color to textSupporting. Could you confirm if the decision on supportingText color is intended to be permanent. If so I think there's no point in keeping this logic in the codebase and I will go ahead and remove it. Other wise just changing the color should be enough.
@luacmartins @shawnborton

[shawnborton]

I feel quite strongly that using the gray text was a mistake, so I would love it if we could revert this back to our normal text color. I think we're still waiting for @JmillsExpensify to chime in though.