User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PayPal Payments Overview
- Getting Started
- PayPal Account Optional
- Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
- Creating Shopping Cart Buttons
- Adding PayPal to Your Third- party Shopping Cart
- Custom Payment Pages
- Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax
- Creating Customer Contact Telephone
- Auto Return
- Backend Integration - Payment Notifications
- Using Multiple Currencies
- Language Encoding for Your Data
- Testing
- Processing eChecks
- Security
- HTML Samples
- IPN and PDT Variables
- About These Tables of Variables
- test_ipn Variable in Sandbox
- IPN Variables in All Posts
- Buyer Information
- Basic Information
- Advanced and Custom Information
- Shopping Cart Information
- Currency and Currency Exchange
- Auctions
- Mass Payment
- Subscriptions Variables
- Dispute Notification Variables
- PDT-Specific Variables
- Country Codes
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Custom Payment Pages
Background Colors and Error Messages
8
Background Colors and Error Messages
PayPal’s error message system highlights errors in red. PayPal does not allow certain
background colors that make these error messages unreadable.
The background color of the following payment page is not allowed. The color makes the
fields the customer must complete difficult to read.
FIGURE 8.5 Example of Unallowed Background Color