glowing input boxes

Hi, does anybody know how I achieve the glowing effect on form input boxes? as with the macromedia ones when you log in

many thanks in advance

Simonbullen wrote:

Hi, does anybody know how I achieve the glowing effect on form input boxes?

Well, Macromedia uses a flash header; however, this can be achieved without
flash. Define in your CSS something like this:

.textbox {
border: 1px solid #999999;
}
.textbox:focus {
border: 1px solid #35AE43;
}

When you insert the box:

<input type="whatever" class="textbox">


This will display the border color of "focus" when the user tabs or clicks
into the box.

Hope this helps.



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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com

thanks,

have done that but nothing seems to happen.... the border is applied, but it doesn't change upon tab or type...

Simonbullen wrote:

the border is applied, but it doesn't change upon tab or type...

Then you're not doing something right. I use this technique on my site: http://www.deceptivemagic.com

I just tried it on 2 different machines and I can't get it to work in IE 6 sp2. Though it works in FF 1.5.

Mack879w wrote:

I just tried it on 2 different machines and I can't get it to work in IE 6
sp2. Though it works in FF 1.5.

Yep, I know...it never has worked in IE.


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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com

I doubt you will achieve a purely-CSS solution that works cross browser. IE
does not fully support CSS2 - that's why it doesn't work with that browser.
You can see a similar difference by browser on one of my pages
(http://www.introscout.com/requestDemo.asp). When using FF, you will see
that background color of the form elements change when they become active,
but there is no change in IE.

I think to replicate the effect on MM's site across all browsers, you must
do what they did - use Flash.

"Holland87" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Mack879w wrote:
I just tried it on 2 different machines and I can't get it to work in IE
6
sp2. Though it works in FF 1.5.


Yep, I know...it never has worked in IE.


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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com

That'd be why then, I'm on IE, perhaps I should have stated that in my initial post, sorry about that