[thelist] IE yellow form field backgrounds on email/postcode

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> I may be slow to spot this, but in IE6 and IE7, for the first time
>> recently I spotted a lemon yellow background to three  fields in a
>> form.
>
> As mentioned by Jason and Donna, this is indeed caused by an installed
> toolbar - most likely Google or Yahoo.  I've found that the Yahoo bar
> is
> much more likely to sneak onto a PC, as it's bundled with Flash
> player.
>
> I often have clients call and ask about the highlighted fields and I
> just explain that it's caused by their own software!
>
> Tim

Fantastic, thanks everyone, I hadn't thought of that. Call me naive,
but I  wouldn't have expected Google to mess around with presentation
like that.

Now to find the Google Toolbar off switch :-)

J