[wp-design] Styling form elements

Michael Heilemann heilemann at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 21:28:26 GMT 2005


I was actually thinking of Andy Budd's stylings as well; I really like them.

On 9/2/05, Joen Asmussen <joen at noscope.com> wrote:
> Chris Davis wrote:
> 
> > Although I can see where you are coming from Mike, I am more in Joen's
> > camp on this one, not styling at all on form elements.. unless it is
> > something innocuous, that doesn't change the form element itself, but
> > adds some character.  An example is what I am doing on my site with
> > the comment form, the elements have backgrounds that give them a more
> > 3d look, but don't actually affect the form widget themselves.
> 
> Spot on.
> 
> One of the best examples of this type of styling is done by Mr. Andy Budd.
> 
> There's sort of an extra border area around elements, and there's a
> focus color. It makes even the ugly Windows elements look good.
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