Changing text Color through variable not working

Hi,

I'm trying to change the color of a text when a button is selected.
I've declared a serialized private Color var (to change it in Unity) and tried to change it through script as below:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections.Generic;
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4. using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
5.  
6. public class changeColorOnClick : MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler
7. {
8.     public Text text;
9.     public Button button;
10.     [SerializeField] private Color textColor;
11.     // Start is called before the first frame update
12.     void Start()
13.     {
14.         button = this.GetComponent<Button>();
15.         //button.OnSelect(TextOnSelect);
16.     }
17.  
18.    void ISelectHandler.OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData)
19.     {
20.         text.color = textColor;
21.     }
22. }

When I look at the inspector, when the button is selected the text color changes, but the text itself disappears.
However, if I change that line as follows it simply works

Code (CSharp):

1. text.color = Color.black;

Does anybody know what is happening?
Thanks!

 

Thank you, Karl.
You are fully right. I was setting the color using the inspector but I didn't set the transparency.