[thelist] Getting back 3d input borders?

Edwin Horneij edwin at lanset.com
Mon Sep 15 22:52:46 CDT 2003


On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Saila, Craig wrote:

> Jeff Howden wrote:
>> unfortunately, i suspect there's no real way to set the styles back
>> to the default look.
>
> You can get the colours back by using the System Color values of CSS 2:
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ui.html#system-colors>

[snip]

> There's no way to get the users default font style
> or border back via CSS.

I think it's odd that this is not possible. Proponents of standards 
compliance make a big deal about respecting user preferences (and to a 
lesser extent browser default settings). IMO there should, therefore, 
be a standard way of finding out what they are and reverting to them.



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