Styling Form Widgets

Cameron Adams on why styling form widgets is often a bad idea.

Posted on May 5, 2004 in Accessibility, Quicklinks, Usability

Comments

  1. May 6, 2004 by James at Practical CSS

    I’m not pointing fingers here, but even though forms aren’t usually the best looking part of a Web site sometimes you’ve got to resist the urge to style them, for usability’s sake.<<

    Isn’t this basically the same argument that was once used for why all hyperlinks should be blue/red/purple and underlined?

  2. May 6, 2004 by James at Practical CSS

    Hmm…my comment was cut off…”Isn’t this basically the same argument that was once used for why all hyperlinks should be blue/red/purple and underlined?”

  3. May 6, 2004 by Roger (Author comment)

    I think you should be careful when you style form elements, especially buttons and drop-down menus. You can use subtle styling, but don’t overdo it. When I use forms on the web, I just get irritated when I have to think about whether a button really is a button.

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