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Some forms have an off black background and a few of mine have a yellow background. White text does not show well on a light yellow background. This is occurring on the username of login, and username, email, in the create new account area.
I dug in the css for the last hour to no avail. Finally throwing in the towel and asking for help.
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Comments
Comment #1
Ed Ropple commentedSubscribing - this one's a bit of a showstopper for me right now. :-/
Comment #2
manogolf commentedThis seems a firefox issue.
After realizing this I thought perhaps the no-follow tool was creating the problem (pink + black = yellow?) but after disabling and flushing, refreshing, clearing, I still have the problem. This shows on all forms asking for user, email.
Comment #3
stephthegeek commentedDo you have the Google toolbar installed or anything else that might help you autofill forms or remember form submissions?
I 'solved' this issue on IRC earlier this week that turned out to be the google toolbar helpfully highlighting required form fields for you.
Comment #4
Ed Ropple commentedNothing special installed. It does seem to be a Firefox-specific issue, and one my clients shouldn't see. Would still be nice to know how to kill it though.
Comment #5
manogolf commentedI disabled all toolbars, auto form fillers, seo tools etc., and is still showing as a yellow field. I'm out of ideas.
Comment #6
stephthegeek commentedI know this isn't much comfort but it's gotta be something browser-side :\ That colour isn't even IN the theme, and someone reported this identical issue to me on IRC a while back and it turned out to be the google toolbar. If you enable a different theme and look at the form, does it also highlight in yellow? If you view source, do you see any CSS being applied inline to that text box?
Comment #7
manogolf commentedAt first my reaction was of course is not going to occur with a different theme, this is the one I am having trouble with. However when I switched over to garland the fields in question are the same yellow.
I firebugged the display and found the rgb output for the yellow. I am going to remove garland from localhost and see what happens.
Comment #8
jwolf commentedI poked around the internets and found the following:
How to Remove Yellow Form Fields Background Color
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/07/how-to-remove-yellow-for...
Get Rid of Yellow Form Fields Once and For All
http://www.agencytool.com/blog/get-rid-of-yellow-form-fields-once-and-fo...
The majority of the sites I found claim that this is being caused by the Google toolbar as mentioned by stephthegeek.
Adding
!importantto the background's value for the input selector has helped solve this problem for other people.I hope the above links help.
Comment #9
manogolf commentedthe acquia marina theme is good. No yellow in the username or email address forms
Comment #10
manogolf commentedjwolf,
Thanks, that did it. Apparently disabling the toolbar is not enough. Whatever was done to prevent this in the marina theme needs repeating in the slate theme.
Comment #11
manogolf commentedclosing