Removing input background colour for Chrome autocomplete?

Question

On a form I\'m working on, Chrome is auto-filling the email and password fields. This is fine, however, Chrome changes the background colour to a pale yellow colour.

Answer 1

If you want to keep the autocomplete functionality intact you can use a bit of jQuery to remove Chrome's styling. I wrote a short post about it here: http://www.benjaminmiles.com/2010/11/22/fixing-google-chromes-yellow-autocomplete-styles-with-jquery/

if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("chrome") >= 0) {
$(window).load(function(){
    $('input:-webkit-autofill').each(function(){
        var text = $(this).val();
        var name = $(this).attr('name');
        $(this).after(this.outerHTML).remove();
        $('input[name=' + name + ']').val(text);
    });
});}

Answer 2

I have a better solution.

Setting the background to another color like below didn't solve the problem for me because I needed a transparent input field

-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0px 1000px white inset;

So I tried some other things and I came up with this:

input:-webkit-autofill,
input:-webkit-autofill:hover,
input:-webkit-autofill:focus,
input:-webkit-autofill:active {
    transition: background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s;
}

Answer 3

Thanks Benjamin!

The Mootools solution is a little more tricky, as I can't get fields by using $('input:-webkit-autofill'), So what I've used is the following:

if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("chrome") >= 0) {

  window.addEvent('load', function() {
    setTimeout(clearWebkitBg, 20);
    var elems = getElems();
    for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) {
      $(elems[i]).addEvent('blur', clearWebkitBg);
    }
  });
}
function clearWebkitBg () {
  var elems = getElems();
  for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) {
    var oldInput = $(elems[i]);
    var newInput = new Element('input', {
      'name': oldInput.get('name'),
      'id': oldInput.get('id'),
      'type': oldInput.get('type'),
      'class': oldInput.get('class'),
      'value': oldInput.get('value')
    });
    var container = oldInput.getParent();
    oldInput.destroy();
    container.adopt(newInput);
  }
}
function getElems() {
  return ['pass', 'login']; // ids
}

Answer 4

The previous solutions of adding a box-shadow works well for people who need a solid colour background. The other solution of adding a transition works, but having to set a duration/delay will mean that at some point it may show again.

My solution is to use keyframes instead, that way it will always show the colours of your choosing.

@-webkit-keyframes autofill {
    0%,100% {
        color: #666;
        background: transparent;
    }
}

input:-webkit-autofill {
    -webkit-animation-delay: 1s; /* Safari support - any positive time runs instantly */
    -webkit-animation-name: autofill;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: both;
}

Example Codepen: https://codepen.io/-Steve-/pen/dwgxPB

Answer 5

In addition to this:

input:-webkit-autofill{
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0px 1000px white inset;
}

You might also want to add

input:-webkit-autofill:focus{
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0px 1000px white inset, 0 0 8px rgba(82, 168, 236, 0.6);
}

Other wise, when you click on the input, the yellow color will come back. For the focus, if you are using bootstrap, the second part is for the border highlighting 0 0 8px rgba(82, 168, 236, 0.6);

Such that it will just look like any bootstrap input.

Answer 6

I had an issue where I couldn't use box-shadow because I needed the input field to be transparent. It's a bit of a hack but pure CSS. Set the transition to a very long amount of time.

input:-webkit-autofill,
input:-webkit-autofill:hover,
input:-webkit-autofill:focus,
input:-webkit-autofill:active {
transition: background-color 50000s ease-in-out 0s, color 5000s ease-in-out 0s;
}