Since the update on May 28, 2020, Google Chrome has decided to do this annoying new thing where, on many sites:
- When I click on a box that I can type in, it surrounds the text box in a black outline with a bit of white around the edge.
- It's doing the same thing for drop-down menus as well, placing a box around any option I move my mouse over with the inside highlighted blue.
- Checkboxes are also much bluer than they used the be.
How do I stop Chrome from doing this? Is there a setting in the flags that I need to disable or in the settings somewhere?
Best Answer
This was added since Chrome 81 named "Updates to Form Controls and Focus" as an experiment and was applied by default since Chrome 83.
The relevant flag is
chrome://flags/#form-controls-refresh(Web Platform Controls updated UI), setting to "Disabled" should at least revert some (if not all) design to the form control and focus.Related: