How to change the beamer textcolor in itemize/enumerate to gray with alert staying in the predefined color

#enumeratebeamer

I want to give an overview of my presentation by listing the sections in an enumerate environment and highlighting each on a different slide by using:

   \begin{enumerate}
      \item<alert@2> Section A
      \item<alert@3> Section B
      \item<alert@4> Section C
      \item<alert@5> Section D
   \end{enumerate}

With this the normal text colour is black but I want it (when not alerted) to be grey.
A \textcolor{grey}{} block around the enumerate doesn't change anything, while this block for every item also changes the alert colour to grey.

I'd be happy for any suggestions.

Best Answer

You cannot wrap \textcolor{} around an enumerate environment, but you can place \color{gray} just behind \begin{enumerate} to apply this color to all the text of the items inside this environment:

\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Title}
    
    \begin{enumerate} \color{gray}
        \item<alert@2> Section A
        \item<alert@3> Section B
        \item<alert@4> Section C
        \item<alert@5> Section D
   \end{enumerate}
    
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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