- From: Ilya Sherman <isherman@chromium.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:29:21 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAA3nRaiFkbXQgQfVDnxyM1n4h2t8YCmh0=g9QGpb2kiKiLNn-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Most browsers offer a feature to save and automatically fill web passwords. Some of the associated rendering engines -- WebKit and Presto, for example -- style such autofilled fields distinctively. WebKit, in particular, sets a yellow background color (and a black foreground color). Many web authors (source: [1], numerous StackOverflow posts) would like to be able to override this styling. We propose exposing an 'autofill' or 'autocomplete' CSS pseudoclass to allow authors to style such fields: see [2]. In fact, WebKit already does so, via the "-webkit-autofill" pseudoclass. This was originally meant to be an irrelevant implementation detail, as the only styles it added were flagged with "!important"; but authors are already using this pseudoclass, coupled with JavaScript, to override styling for such fields: [3]. We are open to alternative suggestions, in place of using a pseudoclass. However, we believe that reaching some consensus here will help make the web platform that much better. Note that we do not believe CSS styling of autofilled fields to be a security concern, as websites can already use JavaScript to circumvent the rendering agent-imposed style. [1] https://crbug.com/46543 <http://crbug.com/46543> [2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66032 [3] https://crbug.com/46543#c22
Received on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:45:12 UTC