How do I make an editable DIV look like a text field?
I've got a DIV
which has contentEditable=true
so the user can edit it. The problem is that it doesn't look like a text field, so it may not be clear to the user that it can be edited.
Is there a way that I can style the DIV
so that it appears to the user like a text input field?
These look the same as their real counterparts in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. They degrade gracefully and look OK in Opera and IE9, too.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/AbKTQ/
CSS:
textarea {
height: 28px;
width: 400px;
}
#textarea {
-moz-appearance: textfield-multiline;
-webkit-appearance: textarea;
border: 1px solid gray;
font: medium -moz-fixed;
font: -webkit-small-control;
height: 28px;
overflow: auto;
padding: 2px;
resize: both;
width: 400px;
}
input {
margin-top: 5px;
width: 400px;
}
#input {
-moz-appearance: textfield;
-webkit-appearance: textfield;
background-color: white;
background-color: -moz-field;
border: 1px solid darkgray;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 0 lightgray inset;
font: -moz-field;
font: -webkit-small-control;
margin-top: 5px;
padding: 2px 3px;
width: 398px;
}
HTML:
<textarea>I am a textarea</textarea>
<div id="textarea" contenteditable>I look like textarea</div>
<input value="I am an input" />
<div id="input" contenteditable>I look like an input</div>
Output:
If you use bootstrap just add form-control
class. For example:
class="form-control"
In WebKit, you can do: -webkit-appearance: textarea;
You could go for an inner box shadow:
div[contenteditable=true] {
box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 4px #666;
}
I updated the jsfiddle from Jarish: http://jsfiddle.net/ZevvE/2/
I would suggest this for matching Chrome's style, extended from Jarish's example. Notice the cursor property which previous answers have omitted.
cursor: text;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
font: medium -moz-fixed;
font: -webkit-small-control;
height: 200px;
overflow: auto;
padding: 2px;
resize: both;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 2px #ccc;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 2px #ccc;
box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 2px #ccc;