CSS for styling form input on iPad/iPods/iPhones

[Brin]

Hi all,

I’ve just launched a new website and it all seems 99% fine (still needs a few tweeks here and there), but there’s an annoying problem with how the form input on the main index page appears on iPads/iPods/iPhones. The form input I’m refering to is the one in the middle of this page: http://www.joyokanjikai.com – it looks fine (dark blue) on the site when viewed by a regular browser, but looks terrible when viewed on Apple devices (faded and generally just horrible).

Any ideas what’s gone wrong with my CSS?

Many thanks,
Brin (still learning web design – definitely not a pro)

P.S. this button (a regular link, not a form input) looks fine on iPads/iPods/iPhones: http://www.joyokanjikai.com/random-kanji/ …

[Brin]

Hmmm…sorry if I wasn’t clear before. I’ve created three images to help show what I mean:

— Image 1: showing how the input button looks on my Mac in Firefox —
http://www.joyokanjikai.com/temporary-folder/in-a-browser-on-a-computer.jpg

— Image 2: showing how the same input button looks on my iPod —
http://www.joyokanjikai.com/temporary-folder/how-it-looks-on-my-ipod-NOT-GOOD.jpg

— Image 3: showing how I’d like the input button to looks on my iPod —
http://www.joyokanjikai.com/temporary-folder/how-it-should-look.jpg

Can you see what I mean? The input button appears totally different (faded etc) on my iPod… I want it to look the same as the button (which is not an input but rather just a regular old styled link) shown in Image 3.

Thanks,
Brin

[DustinWoods]

Add this: -webkit-appearance: none;

Edit:
And just to be safe, you could also add:

-moz-appearance:    none;

appearance:         none;

This disables browsers from using their native appearance for elements such as input fields.

[Brin]

Hiya,

I’ve added the above to make:

#searchform input {
-moz-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
}

but it appears to have made no difference… Any more ideas?

Brin

[Brin]

Sorry, forgot the code tags:


#searchform input {
-moz-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
}


[Brin]

hmmm: there should be a hash infront of “searchform” but it’s not appearing above.

[Brin]

Aha…now added “-webkit-appearance: none;” and IT HAS WORKED! THANK YOU. ^^ Oh, and: Merry Christmas!

[Brin]

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