Html – Turn off iPhone/Safari input element rounding

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My website renders well on the iPhone/Safari browser, with one exception: My text input fields have a weird rounded style which doesn't look good at all with the rest of my website.

Is there a way to instruct Safari (via CSS or metadata) not to round the input fields and render them rectangular as intended?

Best Answer

On iOS 5 and later:

input {
  border-radius: 0;
}

input[type="search"] {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
}

If you must only remove the rounded corners on iOS or otherwise for some reason cannot normalize rounded corners across platforms, use input { -webkit-border-radius: 0; } property instead, which is still supported. Of course do note that Apple can choose to drop support for the prefixed property at any time, but considering their other platform-specific CSS features chances are they'll keep it around.

On legacy versions you had to set -webkit-appearance: none instead:

input {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
}

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Html – CSS3’s border-radius property and border-collapse:collapse don’t mix. How to use border-radius to create a collapsed table with rounded corners

I figured it out. You just have to use some special selectors.

The problem with rounding the corners of the table was that the td elements didn't also become rounded. You can solve that by doing something like this:

table tr:last-child td:first-child {
    border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
}

table tr:last-child td:last-child {
    border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
}

Now everything rounds properly, except that there's still the issue of border-collapse: collapse breaking everything.

A workaround is to add border-spacing: 0 and leave the default border-collapse: separate on the table.

Html – Should I put input elements inside a label element

From the W3's HTML4 specification:

The label itself may be positioned before, after or around the associated control.

<label for="lastname">Last Name</label>
<input type="text" id="lastname" />

<input type="text" id="lastname" />
<label for="lastname">Last Name</label>

<label>
   <input type="text" name="lastname" />
   Last Name
</label>

Note that the third technique cannot be used when a table is being used for layout, with the label in one cell and its associated form field in another cell.

Either one is valid. I like to use either the first or second example, as it gives you more style control.

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