problem on Mac (not on Windows; Unix unknown) turn on XP widgets (via pref file) in AppRunner, notice that the location text field has a gray background. The default background should be white.

Reassigning to Don.

I notice that if I add this css it has no effect in xul: input[type="text"] { background-color: red; }

another thing I notice about this bug (not sure if it's helpful) is that the bottom right corner of the field *is* white but that typing appears in the gray portion and the white corner always obscures the text (the text is beneath the white layer)

Under linux the background is gray with a white border, but the real problem is: You can't write anything in the text widgets. They are completly blocked!!!!

That problem I was refering to had a complete different reason. Forget it.

The text background is white on my build.

Using build 1999121508 on mac and linux ONLY, bringing up the compose window the message body area is grey. It's also is gray for location "about:blank" and the bodt area for Composer. On Win98 it's white. We have a bug 20021 that refers to this bug for the gray problem. Reopening. In the origninal scenario XP widets had to be turned on via pref file, now XP widgets are on by default so this gray background is default. Also making bug 20021 depend on this one.

Note: For the Compose window problem, this is for HTML only, plain text background is white. Removing resolution worksforme

*** Bug 20021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 20021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Verified on Win32 build 1999122011, so changing OSes to `All'. On Win98, any text widget is grey until it is given focus (either with mouse or Tab), whereupon it goes white.

Giving to Rods, cuz your widget man... and this happens on all platforms...

I just checked windows and mac and they are white on text controls that do not have background-color specified. If this is not true please provide an url of the page you are looking at.

reopening to get it back on RodS's radar. I see a gray background in the preferences such as Composer | Author Name. Clicking in this field gives me the white background I expect. Regardless of the correct background color, I don't expect the color to change when I activate the edit field.

Kathy, this works for me with generic HTML, so then this is a XUL issue, not a generic HTML form control issue. I will reassign to Charlie and he can get it to the right XUL owner.

Since last action was to reopen as new, clearing the worksforme resolution so this doesn't get overlooked.

Since Steve did the bulk of the work on the text widget, he will certainly be more able to figure out what's going on here.

changing background color is a duplicate of 18447. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18447 ***

verified dup