remove inner shadow of text input

Question

So I have a text input, im using html5, on chrome, and I want to change the look of a text input, I've removed the outline on focus (orange on chrome), I set the background to a light color #f1f1f1 but now there is like a thicker border on the top and left sides, like it's meant to look pushed in, when there is no change in background color this doesn't happen. How do I remove it? Sorry I can't provide a picture, on a mobile device.

It happens on chrome, ie, and Firefox, can't test any others.

Anthony Hatzopoulos · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-28T15:07:29.323

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border-style:solid; will override the inset style. Which is what you asked.

border:none will remove the border all together.

border-width:1px will set it up to be kind of like before the background change.

border:1px solid #cccccc is more specific and applies all three, width, style and color.

Example: https://jsbin.com/quleh/2/edit?html,output

edited Jul 28 '15 at 15:07

answered Oct 09 '12 at 01:28

Anthony Hatzopoulos

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The first line, `border-style: solid`, is the best answer to this question. – charleslparker Jul 20 '13 at 17:30
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border-style: none was the answer is was looking for – Satbir Kira May 02 '15 at 21:16

score 53 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 22 '21 at 10:52

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This is the solution for mobile safari:

  appearance: none;
  -moz-appearance: none;
  -webkit-appearance: none;

as per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/appearance

and as suggested here: Remove textarea inner shadow on Mobile Safari (iPhone)

edited Sep 22 '21 at 10:52

FabianCook

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answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:55

Owen

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Works as a charm – Shalin Nipuna Apr 24 '20 at 11:16

atilkan · Answer 3 · 2016-03-17T20:44:06.937

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None of the solution are working currently. Here is my solution. You can add prefixes.

box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 0px red;

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answered Nov 22 '15 at 01:43

atilkan

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Marat Tanalin · Answer 4 · 2016-02-26T17:41:07.733

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Add border: none or border: 0 to remove border at all, or border: 1px solid #ccc to make border thin and flat.

To remove ghost padding in Firefox, you can use ::-moz-focus-inner:

::-moz-focus-inner {
    border: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

See live demo.

edited Feb 26 '16 at 17:41

answered Oct 09 '12 at 01:24

Marat Tanalin

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When I do this it has no border, yeah, but when I set the border to 1px and set the color to black only two sides are set. The other is white. – FabianCook Oct 09 '12 at 01:26

score 12 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 09 '12 at 01:27

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Set border: 1px solid black to make all sides equals and remove any kind of custom border (other than solid). Also, set box-shadow: none to remove any inset shadow applied to it.

answered Oct 09 '12 at 01:27

Erick Petrucelli

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If I set the border to any other color, lets say #eee, only two sides are still being set – FabianCook Oct 09 '12 at 01:29
Look my update. You may need to change border style and size too, to `solid` and `1px`. – Erick Petrucelli Oct 09 '12 at 01:30
Thanks. I based mine of yours so yeah. – FabianCook Oct 09 '12 at 01:34
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box-shadow was what made the solution work for me, no other solutions had this bit. – Nate M. Aug 04 '17 at 14:55

Wenping Guo · Answer 6 · 2018-02-07T05:48:21.010

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Try this
outline: none;

live demo https://codepen.io/wenpingguo/pen/KQgbXq

edited Feb 07 '18 at 05:48

answered Feb 07 '18 at 05:06

Wenping Guo

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Yatko · Answer 7 · 2021-01-12T02:39:52.257

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All browsers, including Safari (+ mobile):

input[type=text] {   
    /* Remove */
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;
    
    /* Optional */
    border: solid;
    box-shadow: none;
    /*etc.*/
}

edited Jan 12 '21 at 02:39

answered Jan 12 '21 at 02:34

Yatko

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Oct 15 '16 at 22:13

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I'm working on firefox. and I was having the same issue, input type text are auto defined something looks like boxshadow inset, but it's not. the you want to change is border... just setting border:0; and you're done.

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 15 '20 at 22:01

here is a small snippet that might be cool to try out:

input {
border-radius: 10px;
border-color: violet;
border-style: solid;
}

note that: border-style removes the inner shadow.

input {
    border-radius: 10px;
    border-color: violet;
    border-style: solid;
  }

<input type="text"/>

remove inner shadow of text input

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