My Form Input Field Turns Yellow
Article by Sharlee Plett
As a website designer, I encounter quirky problems with various browsers. Usually it’s some problem between the IE browser and the Firefox browser which leaves me with torn hair and a tired brain. This time it was the form input fields that were misbehaving.
The problem was that I would create a text input field in a form, and no matter what I did, two of the fields would turn yellow. They turned yellow when I specifically set the background color, yellow when I set the background. It was just plain weird.
So I googled, looking for any posts where somebody else was experiencing the same problem. After a daunting number of searches, I finally found a good hearted soul who had figured out what the problem was, solved the problem and written it up for the world to use.
It turns out that I had installed a google toolbar and it was busy helping me, setting my form text input field to yellow whenever it found the word “email”, turning the form field yellow so I would know that I could autofill the field. Incredibly it was able to override my HMTL and CSS settings!
There is a fix, and although it isn’t pretty, it will work if you really want the form input field to stay whatever color you set it to:
Here’s the link to the fix and comments on the problem:
http://code.jenseng.com/google/.
Special thinks to Jon Jensen for sharing his knowledge on the Internet!