Users generally expect form controls to look a certain way, so the styling of form controls is something best left to the browser and/or operating system. It also shows that most browsers ignore many CSS properties when they are applied to form controls. So what does this experiment show? Like I already stated, it shows that using CSS to style form controls to look exactly the same across browsers and platforms is impossible. If they do, and somebody with a copy of Vista and some time to spare feels like taking a set of screenshots and sending them to me, I would appreciate it. I have no idea if form controls look any different in Vista than they do in XP. The reason is very simple: I do not have, and have no intention of investing in, a copy of it.
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If I had unlimited time I could have included many more browser + OS combinations, but this took way longer than I anticipated anyway, so I had to draw the line somewhere.Īs you may already have noted, there are no screenshots from Windows Vista. Multiple line text input controls ( textarea elements)Įach page contains screenshots from each of the tested platforms, as well as a set of styled form controls that you can use to check the results in browsers that I did not include.Single selection menus with option groups.Multiple selection menus with option groups.I have created a demo page for each type of form control: The screenshots are taken from 8 browsers on 4 operating systems, for a total of 14 different browser + OS combinations. In addition to that, my original articles did not include all types of form controls.īecause of all this I spent way too much time creating a total of 224 screenshots showing the effects of various CSS rules applied to form controls. Since discussions about applying CSS to form controls continuously crop up, new versions of browsers and operating systems, and entirely new browsers have been released since September 2004, it was time for an update. My intention with that article (and its follow-up, Styling even more form controls) was to show that attempting to use CSS to make form controls look similar across browsers and operating systems in an exercise in futility.
Over two years ago, in September 2004, I posted an article called Styling form controls.
Styling form controls with CSS, revisited
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