Any way to remove IEs black border around submit button in active forms?
I am implementing a design that uses custom styled submit-buttons. They are quite simply light grey buttons with a slightly darker outer border:
input.button {
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
This looks just right in Firefox, Safari and Opera. The problem is with Internet Explorer, both 6 and 7.
Since the form is the first one on the page, it's counted as the main form - and thus active from the get go. The first submit button in the active form receives a solid black border in IE, to mark it as the main action.
If I turn off borders, then the black extra border in IE goes away too. I am looking for a way to keep my normal borders, but remove the outline.
Solution 1:
Well this works here:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
span.button {
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
span.button input {
background:none;
border:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span class="button"><input type="button" name="..." value="Button"/></span>
</body>
</html>
Solution 2:
if you dont want to add a wrapper to the input / button then try doing this. As this is invalid CSS then make sre its for IE only. Have the border as per for other browsers but use the filter:chroma for IE...
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
input {
filter:chroma(color=#000000);
border:none;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
worked for me.
Solution 3:
I know I'm almost 2 years late to the game, but I found another solution (at least for IE7).
If you add another input type="submit" to your form before any other submit button in the form the problem will go away. Now you just need to hide this new, black-border-absorbing-button.
This works for me (overflow needs to be "auto"):
<input type="submit" value="" style="height:0;overflow:auto;position:absolute;left:-9999px;" />
Note: I am using an HTML5 doctype (<!doctype html>).
Solution 4:
I've found an answer that works for me on another forum. It removes the unwanted black border in ie6 and ie7. It's probable that some/many of you have not positioned your input="submit" in form tags. Don't overlook this. It worked for me after trying everything else.
If you are using a submit button, make sure it is within a form and not just a fieldset:
<form><fieldset><input type="submit"></fieldset></form>
Solution 5:
I was able to combine David Murdoch's suggestion with some JQuery such that the fix will automatically be applied for all 'input:submit' elements on the page:
// Test for IE7.
if ($.browser.msie && parseInt($.browser.version, 10) == 7) {
$('<input type="submit" value="" style="height:0;overflow:auto;position:absolute;left:-9999px;" />')
.insertBefore("input:submit");
}
You can include this in a Master Page or equivalent, so it gets applied to all pages in your site.
It works, but it does feel a bit wrong, somehow.