- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:20:37 -0700
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, Ilya Sherman <isherman@chromium.org>
+Tantek to bring it to his attention, as this is pretty clearly a CSS UI issue. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Ilya Sherman <isherman@chromium.org> wrote: > 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 > [2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66032 > [3] https://crbug.com/46543#c22
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