Styling Form Inputs
For all you obsessive designers that feel the need to style every possible form input (thus making the web browser look and feel exactly like the Mac’s Aqua interface).
File inputs (
) are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation.
Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com
I’m all for making things pretty. However, users have been trained for a long, long time to expect things like file inputs to look and feel a certain way. Are our designs worth retraining users or bending users’ expectations for how these things should behave?
(via Ajaxian).(Also, the top Flash thing on that site with the trick makes me sea-sick, in a “wow, that’s cool” way. :-)).
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