You can't see the question owner's special color

Question

When the owner of a question comments on their question or an answer to their question or self-answers their question, they get a special color for the box around their username.

The problem is, you can't see the box:

Can you please make this not white on white?

Answer 1

Jin has just pushed a fix for this. In a few hours, the OP's name should be highlighted in blue, as was always intended.

Answer 2

If I may suggest:

Please note the following:

• The amazing quality of the freehand red circle
• The skill with which it is applied to the username
• The exact dimensions, in concordance with Atwood's Law of Freehand Red Circles
• The amazing dark-colored background behind the freehand red circle, which is an artifact of my stupidness when it comes to image editing.

Kudos to Servy for the inspiration.

Answer 3

Beta sites use a darker shade that doesn't seem out-of-place with the theme but is still easy to spot:

Perhaps something similar could be added here.

Answer 4

The closest I can get to Undo's suggestion with pure CSS (no images) is:

a.comment-user.owner {
    border: 3px solid #faa;
    border-radius: 53% 47%;
    padding: 0.4em !important;  /* override existing padding style */
    margin: -0.4em;
    background: transparent;
}
span.comment-copy {
    position: relative;  /* keep username border from overlapping text */
}

which looks like this:

It's not quite a red freehand circle, but it's close...

Answer 5

As of today, version 1.16 of SOUP now includes the following minimal CSS fix for this issue:

a.owner, td.owner { background: #eef }

This causes the question poster's user card and username in comments to be shown on a light blue background, like this:

Per the SOUP inclusion guidelines, I deliberately kept this fix as neutral and minimal as possible. If you want something fancier, you can always install the user script I posted in my other answer (which, yes, should be compatible with SOUP).

Answer 6

Insert standard story about getting tired of waiting for a fix and deciding to DO something.

Shamelessly ripping off Totally copy/pasting from Incorporating Ilmari Karonen's comment markup, here's a slightly more reasonable style:

td.owner{
    background-color:#E1ECF9 !important /*Same colour as on beta sites.*/
}
.owner
{
    background-color: #E1ECF9 !important
}

/*strip these next two if you plan to copy/paste and just want highlights without pretty shapes.*/

a.comment-user.owner {
    border-radius: 53% 47%;
    padding: 0.4em !important;  /* override existing padding style */
    margin: -0.4em;
    background: transparent;
}
span.comment-copy {
    position: relative;  /* keep username border from overlapping text */
}

I also modified the OP signature to show up more nicely on the question. It ends up looking like this: