Background color in input and text fields

Question

I would like to change the color background in the text and input fields of a form, but when I do this it also affects the submit button! Could it be done in some other way that does not affect the button?

I have used this code:

input, textarea {
  background-color: #d1d1d1;
}

Lamontlamontagne

As @Damien-at-SF said, use input[type="text"] instead of input. But also use border: none; rule to avoid default text input borders. – Unintelligible

Answer 1

input[type="text"], textarea {

  background-color : #d1d1d1; 

}

Edit: working example, http://jsfiddle.net/C5WxK/

Veliavelick

Nice! There is a border effect in the input field, but not the textarea? – Lamontlamontagne

Why did you use both input[type="text"] and textarea ? – Alainaalaine

They are 2 separate tags and need to be addressed separately... input[type="text"] doesn't address textarea fields. – Veliavelick

Chrome autofill broke it for me. This answer can fix that: #2782049 – Complected

For some reason, my input fields are only being stylized the moment the page renders. Then, it fades. – Aga

Why does this change the size of my text field? – Volumed

Answer 2

The best solution is the attribute selector in CSS (input[type="text"]) as the others suggested.

But if you have to support Internet Explorer 6, you cannot use it (QuirksMode). Well, only if you have to and also are willing to support it.

In this case your only option seems to be to define classes on input elements.

<input type="text" class="input-box" ... />
<input type="submit" class="button" ... />
...

and target them with a class selector:

input.input-box, textarea { background: cyan; }

Clerical

Answer 3

You want to restrict to input fields that are of type text so use the selector input[type=text] rather than input (which will apply to all input fields (e.g. those of type submit as well)).

Koch

Answer 4

you can simply use the button tag with type="submit"

<button type="submit">Submit</button>

besides solving your problem, now you can put HTML inside it(icons for example), rather than using the value attribute to set the text.

If you need to insert a normal button inside a form, use type="button" to prevent it submitiing the form

Microscopic