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Fixed CTA card accent buttons getting an invalid colour when parsed from HTML - #32192

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A CTA button set to the brand colour is rendered on the web as <a class="kg-cta-button kg-style-accent" style="color: #ffffff;">, with no background colour. When that HTML is parsed back, for example in a post created through the Admin API with ?source=html, the parser ignores the class and passes its #000000 fallback to rgbToHex, which only handles rgb() strings. The card is stored with buttonColor: '#00NaNNaN', and in newsletters the button changes from <table class="btn btn-accent"> to <table class="btn"> with background-color: #00NaNNaN on the cell, so it no longer uses the site's brand colour.

The parser now maps kg-style-accent to accent, as the signup card parser already does. It runs rgbToHex only on colours read from the button's inline styles and otherwise falls back to the node defaults (#000000 / #ffffff). Before this change, a button with no inline background colour was stored with #00NaNNaN. Colours set through inline styles parse the same as before.

  • Ran: vitest run test/nodes/call-to-action.test.ts. On main, the two new importDom tests fail (expected '#00NaNNaN' to be 'accent', expected '#00NaNNaN' to be '#000000'). With this change they pass.

  • Ran: the full kg-default-nodes suite with coverage: 65 files, 856 passed, 23 todo.

  • Checked: tsc --noEmit and eslint src/ test/ for the package (0 errors), oxfmt --check on the changeset, and pnpm change status, which lists a patch for @tryghost/kg-default-nodes.

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The CTA parser now normalizes button background and text colors while reading button elements. It uses the accent token for accent-style backgrounds, converts other CSS colors to hex, and applies #000000 and #ffffff defaults when colors are missing. Import-DOM tests cover accent colors and missing color styles. A Changeset declares a patch release for @tryghost/kg-default-nodes.

Priority: Normal

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: Low · up to b52fc

Some imported CTA buttons can render with incorrect colors for valid non-RGB inline styles; the impact is limited to affected HTML imports.

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koenig/kg-default-nodes/src/nodes/call-to-action/calltoaction-parser.ts: 1

15-23: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Do not pass non-RGB CSS values to rgbToHex.

When imported HTML uses a valid value such as currentColor, buttonStyles.backgroundColor remains non-RGB. rgbToHex returns null, so the parser stores #000000 or #ffffff instead of the original color. The CTA renderer accepts this value as a named CSS color, so the imported CTA can render with the wrong button or text color.

Preserve non-RGB values that the CTA renderer supports. Use a CSS-aware normalizer if broader CSS color formats must be supported.

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+const normalizeCssColor = (color: string, fallback: string) => {
+    if (!color) {
+        return fallback;
+    }
+
+    return /^rgba?\(/i.test(color) ? (rgbToHex(color) || fallback) : color;
+};
+
 export function parseCallToActionNode(CallToActionNode: new (data: Record<string, unknown>) => LexicalNode) {
...
-                        const buttonColor = isAccentButton ? 'accent' : (rgbToHex(buttonStyles.backgroundColor) || '#000000');
-                        const buttonTextColor = rgbToHex(buttonStyles.color) || '#ffffff';
+                        const buttonColor = isAccentButton ? 'accent' : normalizeCssColor(buttonStyles.backgroundColor, '#000000');
+                        const buttonTextColor = normalizeCssColor(buttonStyles.color, '#ffffff');
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Update the color handling in parseCallToActionNode so rgbToHex is only used for
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The web renderer outputs a CTA button that uses the brand colour as
`kg-cta-button kg-style-accent` with only an inline text colour. The
parser ignored that class and passed its `#000000` fallback to
`rgbToHex`, which only understands `rgb()` strings, so the card was
stored with `buttonColor: '#00NaNNaN'`. In emails the parsed card then
lost its `btn-accent` class and got an invalid inline background. This
affects CTA HTML imported through the Admin API with `?source=html`.

The parser now maps `kg-style-accent` to `accent`, as the signup card
parser already does, and only runs `rgbToHex` on colours read from the
button's inline styles, falling back to the node defaults otherwise.
That also stops a button without inline colours from getting a null
text colour.
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