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The JSP expression language font color does not use the foreground color from the fonts and colors dialog. Even though I have the following in my tokenColorings.xml file, the font is black: <fontcolor bgColor="ff9aaaa0" foreColor="yellow" name="expression-language"/> Interestingly, the bgColor is used but the foreColor only affects the opening ${ and closing }.
This seems to be some generic editor problem. The issue is not EL specific. If you open a JSP page and change for example the HTML tag color the color doesn't change in the opened file. You need to close/reopen it. Reassigning to editor.
It sounds like a duplicate of issue #93969. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 93969 ***