[thelist] Suppress Aqua theme when styling form elements

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 07:49:09 CDT 2006


On 9/22/06, Mirthe Valentijn <m.valentijn at e-vision.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to overrule the styling applied to
> form elements on a Mac? In particular the submit buttons.
> Similar to <meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" content="no" /> for
> suppressing styling by Windows XP.

Here's an extensive list showing how each browser and OS style form buttons:

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/styling_even_more_form_controls/

You may have more luck with using a <button>[1] control instead of
<input type="submit">, this depends on which browsers you are
supporting.

[1] http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/button.html


ben
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