{"id":13911,"date":"2011-08-31T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=13911"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T22:47:05","slug":"appearance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/a\/appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <code>appearance<\/code> property is used to display an element using a platform-native styling based on the users&#8217; operating system&#8217;s theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">.thing {\n   -webkit-appearance: value;\n   -moz-appearance:    value;\n   appearance:         value;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"explanation\">This is <a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////twitter.com//bocoup//status//1260698133111156736/" rel=\"noopener\">starting to be unprefixed<\/a>, which is great because the cross-browser story here is very complicated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <code>appearance<\/code> property is used for one of two reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>To apply platform-specific styling to an element that doesn&#8217;t have it by default<\/li><li>To remove platform-specific styling to an element that does have it by default<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, inputs with a <code>type=search<\/code> in WebKit browsers by default have rounded corners and <a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//webkit-html5-search-inputs///">are very strict in what you can alter via CSS<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t want that styling, you can remove it in one fell swoop with appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">input[type=search] {\n  -webkit-appearance: none;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you could take a input with type=text and just make it look like a search input:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">input[type=text] {\n  -webkit-appearance: searchfield;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-codepen-gutenberg-embed-block cp_embed_wrapper\"><iframe id=\"cp_embed_VYyxRe\" src=https://css-tricks.com/"////codepen.io//anon//embed//VYyxRe?height=450&amp;theme-id=1&amp;slug-hash=VYyxRe&amp;default-tab=result\%22 height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allowpaymentrequest name=\"CodePen Embed VYyxRe\" title=\"CodePen Embed VYyxRe\" class=\"cp_embed_iframe\" style=\"width:100%;overflow:hidden\">CodePen Embed Fallback<\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><script async=\"\" src=https://css-tricks.com/"////assets.codepen.io//assets//embed//ei.js/"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"webkit-values\">WebKit values<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li>checkbox<\/li><li>radio<\/li><li>push-button<\/li><li>square-button<\/li><li>button<\/li><li>button-bevel<\/li><li>listbox<\/li><li>listitem<\/li><li>menulist<\/li><li>menulist-button<\/li><li>menulist-text<\/li><li>menulist-textfield<\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-up<\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-down<\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-left<\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-right<\/li><li>scrollbartrack-horizontal<\/li><li>scrollbartrack-vertical<\/li><li>scrollbarthumb-horizontal<\/li><li>scrollbarthumb-vertical<\/li><li>scrollbargripper-horizontal<\/li><li>scrollbargripper-vertical<\/li><li>slider-horizontal<\/li><li>slider-vertical<\/li><li>sliderthumb-horizontal<\/li><li>sliderthumb-vertical<\/li><li>caret<\/li><li>searchfield<\/li><li>searchfield-decoration<\/li><li>searchfield-results-decoration<\/li><li>searchfield-results-button<\/li><li>searchfield-cancel-button<\/li><li>textfield<\/li><li>textarea<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mozilla-values\">Mozilla values<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li>none                                <\/li><li>button                              <\/li><li>checkbox                            <\/li><li>checkbox-container                  <\/li><li>checkbox-small                      <\/li><li>dialog                              <\/li><li>listbox                             <\/li><li>menuitem                            <\/li><li>menulist                            <\/li><li>menulist-button                     <\/li><li>menulist-textfield                  <\/li><li>menupopup                           <\/li><li>progressbar                         <\/li><li>radio                               <\/li><li>radio-container                     <\/li><li>radio-small                         <\/li><li>resizer                             <\/li><li>scrollbar                           <\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-down                <\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-left                <\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-right               <\/li><li>scrollbarbutton-up                  <\/li><li>scrollbartrack-horizontal           <\/li><li>scrollbartrack-vertical             <\/li><li>separator                           <\/li><li>statusbar                           <\/li><li>tab                                 <\/li><li>tab-left-edge Obsolete              <\/li><li>tabpanels                           <\/li><li>textfield                           <\/li><li>textfield-multiline                 <\/li><li>toolbar                             <\/li><li>toolbarbutton                       <\/li><li>toolbox                             <\/li><li>-moz-mac-unified-toolbar            <\/li><li>-moz-win-borderless-glass           <\/li><li>-moz-win-browsertabbar-toolbox      <\/li><li>-moz-win-communications-toolbox     <\/li><li>-moz-win-glass                      <\/li><li>-moz-win-media-toolbox              <\/li><li>tooltip                             <\/li><li>treeheadercell                      <\/li><li>treeheadersortarrow                 <\/li><li>treeitem                            <\/li><li>treetwisty                          <\/li><li>treetwistyopen                      <\/li><li>treeview                            <\/li><li>window                              <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"resources\">Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////developer.mozilla.org//en//CSS//-moz-appearance/" rel=\"noopener\">Mozilla Docs for -moz-appearance<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"http:////trentwalton.com//2010//07//14//css-webkit-appearance///" rel=\"noopener\">Trent Walton on Webkit Appearance<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"http:////www.shauninman.com//archive//2010//04//22//disable_the_default_inner_shadow_of_search_inputs_on_the_ipad/" rel=\"noopener\">Shaun Inman on Disabling Inner Text Shadow of Text Inputs on iPad<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"http:////www.w3.org//TR//css3-ui//#appearance\" rel=\"noopener\">CSS3 Spec<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"browser-support\">Browser Support<\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"caniuse\"><div class=\"caniuse-header\"><p>This browser support data is from <a href=https://css-tricks.com/"http:////caniuse.com//#feat=css-appearance\" rel=\"noopener\">Caniuse<\/a>, which has more detail. A number indicates that browser supports the feature at that version and up.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"caniuse-section\"><h4>Desktop<\/h4><table class=\"browser-support-table\"><thead><tr><th class=\"chrome\"><span>Chrome<\/span><\/th><th class=\"firefox\"><span>Firefox<\/span><\/th><th class=\"ie\"><span>IE<\/span><\/th><th class=\"edge\"><span>Edge<\/span><\/th><th class=\"safari\"><span>Safari<\/span><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Chrome - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">83*<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Firefox - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">80<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n nope\" title=\"IE - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">No<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Edge - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">83*<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Safari - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">15.4<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><div class=\"caniuse-section\"><h4>Mobile \/ Tablet<\/h4><table class=\"browser-support-table\"><thead><tr><th class=\"and_chr\"><span>Android Chrome<\/span><\/th><th class=\"and_ff\"><span>Android Firefox<\/span><\/th><th class=\"android\"><span>Android<\/span><\/th><th class=\"ios_saf\"><span>iOS Safari<\/span><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Android Chrome - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">126<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Android Firefox - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">127<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Android - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">126<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"iOS Safari - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">15.4<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance property is used to display an element using a platform-native styling based on the users&#8217; operating system&#8217;s theme. 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