Posted by Adrienne on 06/20/05 22:29

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "KiwiBrian" <briantoz@ihug.co.nz>
writing in news:d96nh7$8ht$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:

>
> "Neredbojias" <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1d2081cf7dda5e25989686@news.intergate.com...
>> With neither quill nor qualm, KiwiBrian quothed
>>
>>> Could anyone please look at the following page and tell me why most
>>> of my form entry fields have a yellow background?
>>>
>>> http://www.realbusinesssolutions.co.nz/contact.html
>>
>> Maybe they're chicken.
>>
>> Actually, they don't for me - in either Mozilla or IE. They're as
>> white as a maggot's ass.
>
> Thanks very much to you both for your help.
> The problem was caused by the MSN Toolbar which I have now removed.
> I would never have thought of that in a month of Sundays.
> Brian.
>
>

Google toolbar does the same thing, and IMHO, it's a PITA, especially if
you have styled input elements to be a certain way if the user has made an
error. For example, in forms I design, if a field is missing or an
incorrect value, it has a pink background and red on yellow label to
distinguish it from others.

I contacted Google about this, and they said there was nothing I could do,
as a developer, to override it. That's really a pity, because I know people
like using the toolbar, I use it myself, but there should be a way to at
least disable the colors.

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Adrienne Boswell
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