For some reason, the text on my page won't show up until I highlight the text. I'm pretty sure this isn't supposed to happen...can anyone help?

Did you give your font the same color as your background? Try making the font a color that is the opposite color of your background, like white background and black text or vice versa. The color of your font may be too close of a color to your background color.

If that doesn't work, then at least provide a link so that we can see the page with the invisible text.

I hope this helps. Have a nice day! :)

hard to fix the problem without seeing the page in question.

best guess is that you have the text color specified the same color as your background is.

If the font colour is correct make sure you have <p> around the text</p> because if you're just typing in text in your code without the <p> tags you wont see the text.

A bit like sjb's post - check that the codes for the body etc. are correct and that any style sheet coding is correct as well.

If the font colour is correct make sure you have <p> around the text</p> because if you're just typing in text in your code without the <p> tags you wont see the text.
no, the P tag set is not required to see text.
you can easily have many text parts such as...

text here.
<br><br>
more text here
<br><br>
and so forth...

the P tag set is merely a container which may hold text.

I also agree that it could be that ur text is the same colour as the bg, but also, it might be this. Check all of your coding and make sure that all the tags are closed because once the same thing happened to me once... I didn't put a quote " after like a font name or something and the text wouldn't show unless i highlighted it...

Hope this helps!!!

~*StarGurl*~

no, the P tag set is not required to see text.
you can easily have many text parts such as...

text here.
<br><br>
more text here
<br><br>
and so forth...

the P tag set is merely a container which may hold text.

Are you sure, because a while back my text was doing the same thing, but on my friends browser and she didn't see the text until i put the <p> tags in, but i think i was using css at the time would that make the difference?

Are you sure, because a while back my text was doing the same thing, but on my friends browser and she didn't see the text until i put the <p> tags in, but i think i was using css at the time would that make the difference?
yup, pretty sure.
i dont have any P tags on my site at all. just a bunch of DIV and BR tags.