https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes Gravity Support Forums Topic: Changing the Color of the entered text in the field boxes en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:26:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-203296 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:40:21 +0000 Richard Vav 203296@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You're welcome, glad you got it sorted. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202897 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:09:16 +0000 amongstit1 202897@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks! This code is what ended up working. Splitting them was the key!<br /> }<br /> #content,<br /> #content textarea {<br /> color: #e2e2e2;<br /> font-size: 12px;<br /> line-height: 24px;<br /> }</p> <p>#content input {<br /> color: #2d2d2d;<br /> font-size: 12px;<br /> line-height: 24px; </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202865 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:37:43 +0000 Richard Vav 202865@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>In that case would splitting that CSS be a problem so it would look more like this<br /> <pre><code>#content { /* content styles go here */ } .gform_wrapper textarea { /* text area styles go here */ }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202859 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:23:47 +0000 amongstit1 202859@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Nope </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202854 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:14:14 +0000 Richard Vav 202854@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do you have any none gravity forms textareas on this or other pages </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202847 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:07:22 +0000 amongstit1 202847@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am using Chrome and have been using the element inspector. Here is what is controlling the color in my style.css line 463.<br /> media="all"<br /> #content, #content input, #content textarea {<br /> color: #e2e2e2;<br /> font-size: 12px;<br /> line-height: 24px;<br /> }<br /> Changing this color obviously changes the style for the whole page though. </p> <p>The plugs that are active and being used are:<br /> Countdown timer<br /> Disable Comments<br /> Google Analytics<br /> Gravity Forms<br /> Gravity Forms + Stripe<br /> Under Construction </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202831 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:47:00 +0000 Richard Vav 202831@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>No problem, CSS inheritance issues arise all the time, do you have any other plugins running that could be adding a stylesheet that contains styles for form elements like the textarea.</p> <p>Also what browser are you using, if you are using chrome right click on the textarea and select 'inspect element' from the bottom of the context menu, you should see something like this <a href="http://imgur.com/YDFkvSd" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/YDFkvSd</a></p> <p>Along the right side you should find a list of all the styles that are are connected to that textarea, you might be able to locate a rule in there that is setting the color </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202821 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:35:06 +0000 amongstit1 202821@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Unfortunately Still nothing. Sorry not an expert programer. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202809 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:21:35 +0000 Richard Vav 202809@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I don't know if this would affect it or not but on lines 35 to 42 you have the following html which does not belong in a stylehseet, try removing it and see if that makes a difference.<br /> <pre><code>&lt;div id=&quot;fb-root&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;script&gt;(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = &quot;//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=442121285837361&quot;; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, &#39;script&#39;, &#39;facebook-jssdk&#39;));&lt;/script&gt;</code></pre> <p>There is also an extra } bracket on line 362 that should be removed<br /> <pre><code>#site-title a { color: #036f91; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/changing-the-color-of-the-entered-text-in-the-field-boxes#post-202803 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:11:09 +0000 amongstit1 202803@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>No luck still. Any other suggestions?<br /> Here is the link to the code for the style sheet.<br /> <a href="http://pastie.org/private/areuaruydyircj3pry6g" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/private/areuaruydyircj3pry6g</a> </p>