On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
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Anixx
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On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
On Wolfram Alpha, http://www.wolframalpha.com/ the cursor is invisible in the input field.
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Moonraker
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Re: On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
have you tried changing your theme.?..some themes affect the input field.
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vannilla
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Re: On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
It's a problem with the website's CSS.
The input field is defined to have transparent text color and is using the "caret-color" property to set the cursor (aka "caret") color to a dark grey value.
Pale Moon doesn't support the caret-color property (yet?) so the cursor disappears.
The text is still colored (by the way, it's the same dark grey color) because the "color" property is set in one of the parent nodes, so even though visually you get the same effect as stating the text color into the input field, semantically you have a dark grey panel on top of which you place a whiteish panel with holes representing the text you entered.
The input field is defined to have transparent text color and is using the "caret-color" property to set the cursor (aka "caret") color to a dark grey value.
Pale Moon doesn't support the caret-color property (yet?) so the cursor disappears.
The text is still colored (by the way, it's the same dark grey color) because the "color" property is set in one of the parent nodes, so even though visually you get the same effect as stating the text color into the input field, semantically you have a dark grey panel on top of which you place a whiteish panel with holes representing the text you entered.
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Moonchild
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Re: On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
Why on earth would you EVER want to style text input that way?
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Moonchild
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Re: On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
We don't support caret-color yet, but porting Mozilla code for it should be trivial as it was added in Firefox 53. bug #1063162
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vannilla
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Re: On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
The site is built using a high level framework (it seems to be next.js), so the webmaster itself has only so much control on how the DOM is structured.
Given the rather long chain of dependencies of modern framework, who knows where the element gets its style from. It's probably some junk seeping through too many abstraction layers.
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Moonchild
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Re: On Wolfram Alpha, text cursor is invisible
Still, at some point someone decided this was such a great idea they just had to do it, and it was accepted and propagated in the framework...
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