Form field background color? Why yellow?

[Don Eilenberger]

Folks,

In some forms I've created - when they are displayed in any version of IE -
the background color of the field is yellow. I can find nothing in the code
causing this, and even looking at the source as seen by IE - I can't see what
is turning these fields to a yellow background. It doesn't seem to matter if
verification is turned on, or any FrontPage or HTML code is present.

Viewed in Netscape - the fields have white backgrounds - so this must be
something specific to Internet Explorer.

Any ideas?

Frustrated in NJ..

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Caused by Browser plug-ins/add-ins, such as the Google toolbar.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

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[Don Eilenberger]

Thomas,

Thanks. Found it immediately once you mentioned Google toolbar - they have
an option to highlight fields that they can autofill in yellow.. so nothing I
can do on the server end will change that.

One of thos 'duh sort of things.

Thanks much!

 

[fineartdavid]

Folks,

In some forms I've created - when they are displayed in any version of IE -
the background color of the field is yellow. I can find nothing in the code
causing this, and even looking at the source as seen by IE - I can't see what
is turning these fields to a yellow background. It doesn't seem to matter if
verification is turned on, or any FrontPage or HTML code is present.

Viewed in Netscape - the fields have white backgrounds - so this must be
something specific to Internet Explorer.

Any ideas?

Frustrated in NJ..

Hi Don,

I'm not sure if you found out the answer yet, but it is cause by the
Google Toolbar. They have an autofill function for forms. It picks up
form fields which it recognises the label for and helpfully colours
them yellow to let you know it can fill them in for you.

It just goes to show the old rule is true. The only thing you know
about the computer people are using to visit your website is that you
know nothing about it at all.

David