Why `Color.White` doesn’t work? but other colors like `Color.Red` or `Color.Blue` works! :thread:

# compose

[theapache64]

Why Color.White doesn’t work? but other colors like Color.Red or Color.Blue works! 🧵

[theapache64]

I am trying to change my TextField background color to white

TextField(
        value = value,
        onValueChange = onValueChange,
        modifier = modifier.background(Color.White),
    )

but it doesn’t work. Any idea ? 🤔 (other colors work though)

[Ayfri]

Have you imported it ?

[theapache64]

Yes.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

What does “work” mean?

[theapache64]

calling .background(Color.White) doesn’t do anything.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Does it work with BasicTextField? Some of the material components do some color matching and so if your theme has White in it i wonder if text field is doing something like that

[theapache64]

ahh.. interesting. let me try with BasicTextField.

[theapache64]

UPDATE: It works with BasicTextField .

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Is there white in your theme?

[theapache64]

Nope. Here’s a reproducible repo if you want : https://github.com/theapache64/WhiteIssue/

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

It looks like TextField has its own colors parameter and there's some color stuff in TextFieldDefaults. I guess that's the way to set the background color

[theapache64]

yeah. i was confused why it doesn’t work for one specific color.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Me too. Not opening my laptop this weekend tho! 😜

[theapache64]

update: Replicable code moved to here