Safari Disabled Inputs are Too Faded. CSS not helping

That css didn’t work.

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I need this disabled state to prevent editing in certain scenarios.

Anyone had this problem?

I’m always using an input as well as an text element and show/hide with conditions to get around this problem with safari.

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How to change the font-color of disabled input using CSS ?

In this article, we are going to learn how to change the font-color of disabled input. There is a method to solve this problem, which is discussed below:

Approach: With adding basic CSS property we are able to change the font-color of a disabled input. The disabled input element is unusable and un-clickable. This is a boolean attribute. Here using the color property of input we can change the font-color of this disabled input element. Below is the Syntax and implementation of the above approach:

Syntax: HTML:

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Explanations: First input element is enabled and the second input element is disabled. Using CSS properties we have an initialized background of all input elements as grey and font-color as white. We have to change white font-color of the disabled input to any color.

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Safari in Apple iOS 15 , iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 feels like a whole new browser in a lot of ways. And while I like Tab Groups, there's one feature that I immediately didn't really enjoy and wanted to disable. And fortunately, that's very easy to do.

This new feature changes the color of the interface around the tabs, bookmark and navigation button areas in Safari, to match the color of the website you're using. Sometimes this change doesn't bother me, such as when Safari goes black while I'm reading a CNN article, but when it takes on a color like blue (seen above for CNBC, or on TweetDeck), it's a bit jarring to my eye. 

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The intent is clearly to immerse the reader in the site's aesthetic, but I'd rather that site pop off the neutral shade like it did in past versions. That might sound awesome to you. But if it doesn't, read on. And don't be ashamed. It's normal to not like change. I just wish some other Safari changes were equally configurable, as it doesn't make sense that the Reload button is now hidden in iPadOS.

And so I figured out how to change this setting in all three of the operating systems. Fortunately, it's the exact same in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, and macOS 15 is only slightly different. 

How to stop Safari from changing colors in macOS 12

How to stop Safari from changing color on macOS step 1: click Safari in Menu bar

1. Click Safari in the Menu bar. Of course, you'll need to have Safari open for this.

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According to my colleague Philip Michaels, who wrote our hands-on iOS 15 beta review, Safari's color-changing nature isn't a big a deal on the iPhone. Specifically, he told me "to be very honest, I do not notice it at all," as he's too busy being confused by the Safari iOS tab bar moving to the bottom of the screen .

That might be because iOS gives the tab bar much less space than macOS and iPadOS do. That said, here's how to disable it outright.

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1. Open Settings and tap Safari.

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iPhoneのSafariにおいて、disabledのinputに入っている文字の色を変更するためには下記のように指定する必要がある。

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In this article, we’ll be taking a look at the structure inside <input type='color'> elements, browser inconsistencies, why they look a certain way in a certain browser, and how to dig into it. Having a good understanding of this input allows us to evaluate whether a certain cross-browser look can be achieved and how to do so with a minimum amount of effort and code.

Here’s exactly what we’re talking about:

But before we dive into this, we need to get into…

Accessibility issues!

We’ve got a huge problem here: for those who completely rely on a keyboard, this input doesn’t work as it should in Safari and in Firefox on Windows, but it does work in Firefox on Mac and Linux (which I only tested on Fedora, so feel free to yell at me in the comments if it doesn’t work for you using another distribution).

In Firefox on Windows, we can Tab to the input to focus it, press Enter to bring up a dialog… which we then cannot navigate with the keyboard!

I’ve tried tabbing, arrow keys, and every other key available on the keyboard… nothing! I could at least close the dialog with good old Alt + F4 . Later, in the bug ticket I found for this on Bugzilla, I also discovered a workaround: Alt + Tab to another window, then Alt + Tab back and the picker dialog can be navigated with the keyboard.

Things are even worse in Safari. The input isn’t even focusable ( bug ticket ) if VoiceOver isn’t on. And even when using VoiceOver, tabbing through the dialog the inputs opens is impossible.

If you’d like to use <input type='color'> on an actual website, please let browsers know this is something that needs to be solved!

How to look inside

In Chrome, we need to bring up DevTools, go to Settings and, in the Preferences section under Elements , check the Show user agent shadow DOM option.

Then, when we return to inspect our element, we can see inside its shadow DOM.

In Firefox, we need to go to about:config and ensure the devtools.inspector.showAllAnonymousContent flag is set to true .

Then, we close the DevTools and, when we inspect our input again, we can see inside our input.

Sadly, we don’t seem to have an option for this in pre-Chromium Edge.

The structure inside

The structure revealed in DevTools differs from browser to browser, just like it does for range inputs.

In Chrome, at the top of the shadow DOM, we have a <div> wrapper that we can access using ::-webkit-color-swatch-wrapper .

Inside it, we have another <div> we can access with ::-webkit-color-swatch .

Screenshot of Chrome DevTools showing the shadow DOM of the <input type='color' data-recalc-dims=

In Firefox, we only see one <div> , but it’s not labeled in any way, so how do we access it?

On a hunch, given this <div> has the background-color set to the input’s value attribute, just like the ::-webkit-color-swatch component, I tried ::-moz-color-swatch . And it turns out it works!

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools showing what's inside an <input type='color' data-recalc-dims=

However, I later learned we have a better way of figuring this out for Firefox!

We can go into the Firefox DevTools Settings and, in the Inspector section, make sure the “Show Browser Styles” option is checked. Then, we go back to the Inspector and select this <div> inside our <input type='color'> . Among the user agent styles, we see a rule set for input[type='color']::-moz-color-swatch !

In pre-Chromium Edge, we cannot even see what kind of structure we have inside. I gave ::-ms-color-swatch a try, but it didn’t work and neither did ::-ms-swatch (which I considered because, for an input type='range' , we have ::-webkit-slider-thumb and ::-moz-range thumb , but just ::-ms-thumb ).

After a lot of searching, all I found was this issue from 2016. Pre-Chromium Edge apparently doesn’t allow us to style whatever is inside this input. Well, that’s a bummer.

How to look at the browser styles

In all browsers, we have the option of not applying any styles of our own and then looking at the computed styles.

In Chrome and Firefox, we can also see the user agent stylesheet rule sets that are affecting the currently selected element (though we need to explicitly enable this in Firefox, as seen in the previous section).

Screenshot collage of Chrome DevTools and Firefox DevTools showing where to look for user agent styles: Elements  data-recalc-dims=

This is oftentimes more helpful than the computed styles, but there are exceptions and we should still always check the computed values as well.

In Firefox, we can also see the CSS file for the form elements at view-source:resource://gre-resources/forms.css .

Screenshot showing view-source:resource://gre-resources/forms.css open in Firefox to allow us seeing user agent styles for form elements.

The input element itself

We’ll now be taking a look at the default values of a few properties in various browsers in order to get a clear picture of what we’d really need to set explicitly in order to get a custom cross-browser result.

The first property I always think about checking when it comes to <input> elements is box-sizing . The initial value of this property is border-box in Firefox, but content-box in Chrome and Edge.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the computed values of box-sizing for the actual input.

We can see that Firefox is setting it to border-box on <input type='color'> , but it looks like Chrome isn’t setting it at all, so it’s left with the initial value of content-box (and I suspect the same is true for Edge).

In any event, what it all means is that, if we are to have a border or a padding on this element, we also need to explicitly set box-sizing so that we get a consistent result across all these browsers.

The font property value is different for every browser, but since we don’t have text inside this input, all we really care about is the font-size , which is consistent across all browsers I’ve checked: 13.33(33)px . This is a value that really looks like it came from dividing 40px by 3 , at least in Chrome.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the font values for the actual input.

This is a situation where the computed styles are more useful for Firefox, because if we look at the browser styles, we don’t get much in terms of useful information:

Screenshot of what we get if we look at the browser styles where the font was set for Firefox. The value for the font is -moz-field, which is an alias for the look of a native text field. Expanding this to check the longhands shows us empty instead of actual values.

The margin is also consistent across all these browsers, computing to 0 .

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the margin values for the actual input.

The border is different for every single browser. In both Chrome and Edge, we have a solid 1px one, but the border-color is different ( rgb(169, 169, 169) for Chrome and rgb(112, 112, 112) for Edge). In Firefox, the border is an outset 2px one, with a border-color of… ThreeDLightShadow ?!

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the border values for the actual input.

What’s the deal with ThreeDLightShadow ? If it doesn’t sound familiar, don’t worry! It’s a (now deprecated) CSS2 system value , which Firefox on Windows shows me to be rgb(227, 227, 227) in the Computed styles tab.

Screenshot of Computed panel search in Firefox on Windows, showing that the ThreeDLightShadow keyword computes to rgb(227, 227, 227).

Note that in Firefox (at least on Windows), the operating system zoom level ( Settings → System → Display → Scale and Layout → Change the size of text, apps and other items ) is going to influence the computed value of the border-width , even though this doesn’t seem to happen for any other property I’ve checked and it seems to be partially related to the border-style .

Screenshot showing the Windows display settings window with the zoom level options dropdown opened.

The strangest thing is the computed border-width values for various zoom levels don’t seem to make any sense. If we keep the initial border-style: outset , we have:

  • 1.6px for 125%
  • 2px for 150%
  • 1.7px for 175%
  • 1.5px for 200%
  • 1.8px for 225%
  • 1.6px for 250%
  • 1.66667px for 300%

If we set border-style: solid , we have a computed border-width of 2px , exactly as it was set, for zoom values that are multiples of 50% and the exact same computed values as for border-style: outset for all the other zoom levels.

The padding is the same for Chrome and Edge ( 1px 2px ), while Firefox is the odd one out again.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the padding values for the actual input.

It may look like the Firefox padding is 1px . That’s what it is set to and there’s no indication of anything overriding it — if a property is overridden, then it’s shown as grey and with a strike-through.

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools highlighting how the border set on input[type='color'] overrides the one set on input and the look (grey + strike-through) of overridden properties.

But the computed value is actually 0 8px ! Moreover, this is a value that doesn’t depend on the operating system zoom level. So, what the hairy heck is going on?!

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools showing how the computed padding value on <input type='color' data-recalc-dims=

Now, if you’ve actually tried inspecting a color input, took a close look at the styles set on it, and your brain works differently than mine (meaning you do read what’s in front of you and don’t just scan for the one thing that interests you, completely ignoring everything else…) then you’ve probably noticed there is something overriding the 1px padding (and should be marked as such) — the flow-relative padding !

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools showing the flow-relative padding overriding the old padding due to higher specificity of selector (input[type='color'] vs. input).

Dang, who knew those properties with lots of letters were actually relevant? Thanks to Zoltan for noticing and letting me know. Otherwise, it probably would have taken me two more days to figure this one out.

This raises the question of whether the same kind of override couldn’t happen in other browsers and/or for other properties.

Edge doesn’t support CSS logical properties, so the answer is a “no” in that corner.

In Chrome, none of the logical properties for margin , border or padding are set explicitly for <input type='color'> , so we have no override.

Concerning other properties in Firefox, we could have found ourselves in the same situation for margin or for border , but with these two, it just so happens the flow-relative properties haven’t been explicitly set for our input, so again, there’s no override.

Even so, it’s definitely something to watch out for in the future!

Moving on to dimensions, our input’s width is 44px in Chrome and Edge and 64px in Firefox.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the width values for the actual input.

Its height is 23px in all three browsers.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the height values for the actual input.

Note that, since Chrome and Edge have a box-sizing of content-box , their width and height values do not include the padding or border . However, since Firefox has box-sizing set to border-box , its dimensions include the padding and border .

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the layout boxes.

This means the content-box is 44px x 23px in Chrome and Edge and 44xpx x 19px in Firefox, the padding-box is 48px x 25 in Chrome and Edge and 60px x 19px in Firefox and the border-box is 50px x 27px in Chrome and Edge and 64px x 23 in Firefox.

We can clearly see how the dimensions were set in Chrome and I’d assume they were set in the same direct way in Edge as well, even if Edge doesn’t allow us to trace this stuff. Firefox doesn’t show these dimensions as having been explicitly set and doesn’t even allow us to trace where they came from in the Computed tab (as it does for other properties like border , for example). But if we look at all the styles that have been set on input[type='color'] , we discover the dimensions have been set as flow-relative ones ( inline-size and block-size ).

Screenshot of the Firefox user agent styles showing flow relative dimensions being set on input[type='color'].

The final property we check for the normal state of the actual input is background . Here, Edge is the only browser to have a background-image (set to a top to bottom gradient), while Chrome and Firefox both have a background-color set to ButtonFace (another deprecated CSS2 system value). The strange thing is this should be rgb(240, 240, 240) (according to this resource ), but its computed value in Chrome is rgb(221, 221, 221) .

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the three browsers showing the background values for the actual input.

What’s even stranger is that, if we actually look at our input in Chrome, it sure does look like it has a gradient background ! If we screenshot it and then use a picker, we get that it has a top to bottom gradient from #f8f8f8 to #ddd .

Screenshot of the input in Chrome. A very light, almost white, grey to another light, but still darker grey gradient from top to bottom can be seen as the background, not the solid background-color indicated by DevTools.

Also, note that changing just the background-color (or another property not related to dimensions like border-radius ) in Edge also changes the background-image , background-origin , border-color or border-style .

Other states

We can take a look at the styles applied for a bunch of other states of an element by clicking the :hov button in the Styles panel for Chrome and Firefox and the a: button in the same Styles panel for Edge. This reveals a section where we can check the desired state(s).

Screenshot collage highlighting the buttons that bring up the states panel in Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

Note that, in Firefox, checking a class only visually applies the user styles on the selected element, not the browser styles. So, if we check :hover for example, we won’t see the :hover styles applied on our element. We can however see the user agent styles matching the selected state for our selected element shown in DevTools.

Also, we cannot test for all states like this and let’s start with such a state.

In order to see how styles change in this state, we need to manually add the disabled attribute to our <input type='color'> element.

Hmm… not much changes in any browser!

In Chrome, we see the background-color is slightly different ( rgb(235, 235, 228) in the :disabled state versus rgb(221, 221, 221) in the normal state).

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the background being set to rgb(235, 235, 228) for a :disabled input.

But the difference is only clear looking at the info in DevTools. Visually, I can tell tell there’s a slight difference between an input that’s :disabled and one that’s not if they’re side-by-side, but if I didn’t know beforehand, I couldn’t tell which is which just by looking at them, and if I just saw one, I couldn’t tell whether it’s enabled or not without clicking it.

Disabled and enabled input side by side in Chrome. There is a slight difference in background-color, but it's pretty much impossible to tell which is which just by looking at them.

In Firefox, we have the exact same values set for the :disabled state as for the normal state (well, except for the cursor, which realistically, isn’t going to produce different results save for exceptional cases anyway). What gives, Firefox?!

Comparison of styles set in Firefox for <input type='color' data-recalc-dims=

In Edge, both the border-color and the background gradient are different.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing border-color and the background-image being set to slightly different values for a :disabled input.

We have the following styles for the normal state:

And for the :disabled state:

Clearly different if we look at the code and visually better than Chrome, though it still may not be quite enough:

Disabled and enabled input side by side in Edge. There is a slight difference in background-image and a bigger difference in border-color, but it still may be difficult to tell whether an input is enabled or not at first sight without having a reference to compare.

This is one state we can test by toggling the DevTools pseudo-classes. Well, in theory. In practice, it doesn’t really help us in all browsers.

Starting with Chrome, we can see that we have an outline in this state and the outline-color computes to rgb(77, 144, 254) , which is some kind of blue.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing an outline for an input having <code data-recalc-dims=

Pretty straightforward and easy to spot.

Moving on to Firefox, things start to get hairy! Unlike Chrome, toggling the :focus pseudo-class from DevTools does nothing on the input element, though by focusing it (by tab click), the border becomes blue and we get a dotted rectangle within — but there’s no indication in DevTools regarding what is happening.

If we check Firefox’s forms.css , it provides an explanation for the dotted rectangle. This is the dotted border of a pseudo-element, ::-moz-focus-inner (a pseudo-element which, for some reason, isn’t shown in DevTools inside our input as ::-moz-color-swatch is). This border is initially transparent and then becomes visible when the input is focused — the pseudo-class used here ( :-moz-focusring ) is pretty much an old Firefox version of the new standard ( :focus-visible ), which is currently only supported by Chrome behind the Experimental Web Platform features flag.

Firefox DevTools screenshot where the inner dotted rectangle on :focus comes from: it is set as a transparent border on the ::-moz-focus-inner pseudo-element and it becomes visible when the input should have a noticeable :focus indicator.

What about the blue border ? Well, it appears this one isn’t set by a stylesheet, but at an OS level instead. The good news is we can override all these styles should we choose to do so.

In Edge, we’re faced with a similar situation. Nothing happens when toggling the :focus pseudo-class from DevTools, but if we actually tab to our input to focus it, we can see an inner dotted rectangle.

Even though I have no way of knowing for sure, I suspect that, just like in Firefox, this inner rectangle is due to a pseudo-element that becomes visible on :focus .

In Chrome, toggling this pseudo-class doesn’t reveal any :hover -specific styles in DevTools. Furthermore, actually hovering the input doesn’t appear to change anything visually. So it looks like Chrome really doesn’t have any :hover -specific styles?

In Firefox, toggling the :hover pseudo-class from DevTools reveals a new rule in the styles panel:

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools showing the rule set that shows up for the :hover state.

When actually hovering the input, we see the background turns light blue and the border blue, so the first thought would be that light blue is the -moz-buttonhoverface value and that the blue border is again set at an OS level, just like in the :focus case.

However, if we look at the computed styles, we see the same background we have in the normal state, so that blue background is probably really set at an OS level as well, in spite of having that rule in the forms.css stylesheet.

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools showing the computed value for background-color in the :hover state.

In Edge, toggling the :hover pseudo-class from DevTools gives our input a light blue ( rgb(166, 244, 255) ) background and a blue ( rgb(38, 160, 218) ) border , whose exact values we can find in the Computed tab:

Screenshot of Edge DevTools showing the computed value for background-color and border-color in the :hover state.

Checking the :active state in the Chrome DevTools does nothing visually and shows no specific rules in the Styles panel. However, if we actually click our input, we see that the background gradient that doesn’t even show up in DevTools in the normal state gets reversed.

Screenshot of the input in :active state in Chrome. A very light, almost white, grey to another light, but still darker grey gradient from bottom to top can be seen as the background, not the solid background-color indicated by DevTools.

In Firefox DevTools, toggling the :active state on does nothing, but if we also toggle the :hover state on, then we get a rule set that changes the inline padding (the block padding is set to the same value of 0 it has in all other states), the border-style and sets the background-color back to our old friend ButtonFace .

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools showing the rule set that shows up for the :active state.

In practice, however, the only thing that matches the info we get from DevTools is the inline shift given by the change in logical padding . The background becomes a lighter blue than the :hover state and the border is blue. Both of these changes are probably happening at an OS level as well.

In Edge, activating the :active class from DevTools gives us the exact same styles we have for the :hover state. However, if we have both the :hover and the :active states on, things change a bit. We still have a light blue background and a blue border , but both are darker now ( rgb(52, 180, 227) for the background-color and rgb(0, 137, 180) for the border-color ):

Screenshot of Edge DevTools showing the computed value for background-color and border-color in the :active state.

This is the takeaway: if we want a consistent cross-browser results for <input type='color'> , we should define our own clearly distinguishable styles for all these states ourselves because, fortunately, almost all the browser defaults — except for the inner rectangle we get in Edge on :focus — can be overridden.

The swatch wrapper

This is a component we only see in Chrome, so if we want a cross-browser result, we should probably ensure it doesn’t affect the swatch inside — this means ensuring it has no margin , border , padding or background and that its dimensions equal those of the actual input’s content-box .

In order to know whether we need to mess with these properties (and maybe others as a result) or not, let’s see what the browser defaults are for them.

Fortunately, we have no margin or border , so we don’t need to worry about these.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the margin and border values for the swatch wrapper.

We do however have a non-zero padding (of 4px 2px ), so this is something we’ll need to zero out if we want to achieve a consistent cross-browser result.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the padding values for the swatch wrapper.

The dimensions are both conveniently set to 100% , which means we won’t need to mess with them.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the size values for the swatch wrapper.

Something we need to note here is that we have box-sizing set to border-box , so the padding gets subtracted from the dimensions set on this wrapper.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the box-sizing value for the swatch wrapper.

This means that while the padding-box , border-box and margin-box of our wrapper (all equal because we have no margin or border ) are identical to the content-box of the actual <input type='color'> (which is 44px x 23px in Chrome), getting the wrapper’s content-box involves subtracting the padding from these dimensions. It results that this box is 40px x 15px .

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the box model for the swatch wrapper.

The background is set to transparent , so that’s another property we don’t need to worry about resetting.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the background values for the swatch wrapper.

There’s one more property set on this element that caught my attention: display . It has a value of flex , which means its children are flex items.

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the display value for the swatch wrapper.

This is a component we can style in Chrome and Firefox. Sadly, Edge doesn’t expose it to allow us to style it, so we cannot change properties we might want to, such as border , border-radius or box-shadow .

The box-sizing property is one we need to set explicitly if we plan on giving the swatch a border or a padding because its value is content-box in Chrome, but border-box in Firefox.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the computed values of box-sizing for the swatch component.

Fortunately, the font-size is inherited from the input itself so it’s the same.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the computed values of font-size for the swatch component.

The margin computes to 0 in both Chrome and Firefox.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the computed values of margin for the swatch component.

This is because most margins haven’t been set, so they end up being 0 which is the default for <div> elements. However, Firefox is setting the inline margins to auto and we’ll be getting to why that computes to 0 in just a little moment.

Screenshot of Firefox DevTools.

The border is solid 1px in both browsers. The only thing that differs is the border-color , which is rgb(119, 119, 119) in Chrome and grey (or rgb(128, 128, 128) , so slightly lighter) in Firefox.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the computed values of border for the swatch component.

Note that the computed border-width in Firefox (at least on Windows) depends on the OS zoom level, just as it is in the case of the actual input.

The padding is luckily 0 in both Chrome and Firefox.

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the computed values of padding for the swatch component.

The dimensions end up being exactly what we’d expect to find, assuming the swatch covers its parent’s entire content-box .

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the box model for the swatch component.

In Chrome, the swatch parent is the <div> wrapper we saw earlier, whose content-box is 4px x 15px . This is equal to the margin-box and the border-box of the swatch (which coincide as we have no margin ). Since the padding is 0 , the content-box and the padding-box for the swatch are identical and, subtracting the 1px border, we get dimensions that are 38px x 13px .

In Firefox, the swatch parent is the actual input, whose content-box is 44px x 19px one. This is equal to the margin-box and the border-box of the swatch (which coincide as we have no margin ). Since the padding is 0 , the content-box and the padding-box for the swatch are identical and, subtracting the 1px border, we get that their dimensions are 42px x 17px .

In Firefox, we see that the swatch is made to cover its parent’s content-box by having both its dimensions set to 100% .

Comparative screenshots of DevTools in the two browsers showing the size values for the swatch component.

This is the reason why the auto value for the inline margin computes to 0 .

But what about Chrome? We cannot see any actual dimensions being set. Well, this result is due to the flex layout and the fact that the swatch is a flex item that’s made to stretch such that it covers its parent’s content-box .

Chrome DevTools screenshot showing the flex value for the swatch wrapper.

Final thoughts

Phew, we covered a lot of ground here! While it may seem exhaustive to dig this deep into one specific element, this is the sort of exercise that illustrates how difficult cross-browser support can be. We have our own styles, user agent styles and operating system styles to traverse and some of those are always going to be what they are. But, as we discussed at the very top, this winds up being an accessibility issue at the end of the day, and something to really consider when it comes to implementing a practical, functional application of a color input.

Remember, a lot of this is ripe territory to reach out to browser vendors and let them know how they can update their implementations based on your reported use cases. Here are the three tickets I mentioned earlier where you can either chime in or reference to create a new ticket:

  • WebKit (Bug #194756)
  • Mozilla (Bug #1526820)
  • Pre-Chromium Edge (Issue #57, closed)

Wow, that’s nightmare territory The colour picker should be burned with fire. No way anyone should use it on a real site.

That was a deep dive ! I had no idea you could inspect browser shadow DOM so easily. That would make a great article series ;)

Edge Canary (I have 77.0.223.0 currently) has the exact same devtools settings as Chrome, and inspecting the shadow dom gives the same results as Chrome.

The firefox’s padding devtools “inconsistency” is due to the later rule doesn’t override the declared input rule, what’s overriding it is the browser itself when it processes the RTL logic, and devtools doesn’t have access to the browser on-the-fly post-processed styles, showing and associating the “raw input” for the rendering engine.

That was intense! I think we need a follow up on the actual color-picker itself in addition to the input. For a file picker it makes sense for that to be native but for a color picker not at all.

The color picker breaks the 4th wall so to speak … the eye dropper is able to traverse the system windows to get colors, which is a very good reason for that functionality to be a native function.

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Safari: TextColor for disabled inputs not applied correctly #3683

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Html events, html objects, other references, input color disabled property.

❮ Input Color Object

Disable a color picker:

The result will be:

Description

The disabled property sets or returns whether a color picker should be disabled, or not.

A disabled element is unusable and un-clickable. Disabled elements are usually rendered in gray by default in browsers.

This property reflects the HTML disabled attribute.

Browser Support

Note: The <input type="color"> element does not show any colorpicker in Internet Explorer and Safari.

Return the disabled property:

Set the disabled property:

Property Values

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Disable and undisable a color picker:

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