Remove textarea inner shadow on Mobile Safari (iPhone)

161
votes

By default, it seems Mobile Safari adds the top inner shadow to all input fields, including textarea. Is there a way to remove it?

It's especially ugly when you have a white background.

6
iphonemobilemobile-safari

6 Answers

356
votes

By adding this css style:

-webkit-appearance: none;
32
votes

While adding the CSS style

-webkit-appearance: none;

will work, it gets rid of everything. You may want to try this instead:

box-shadow: none !important;

This way you keep the down-arrow.

30
votes

Here is the easy solution

input[type=text] {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  -moz-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;
}
9
votes

Sometimes you can have a stylesheet there broke the appearance: none; so a way to fix it when that happens is to use caret. The best way will be to rewrite your code and find out what's part of your code there mess up the style for none

Before using caret you need to know that it can get you some trouble with other styles

-webkit-appearance: caret;
   -moz-appearance: caret;
     -o-appearance: caret;
        appearance: caret;

NOTE: Use none, caret is not the optimal.

4
votes

https://stackoverflow.com/a/51626446/9287284

background-clip: padding-box;

and I found an older same answers comment at here.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/29750016/9287284

-30
votes

Setting either background and border css properties of the input tag also seems to work.

Try this:

<style>
input {
    background: #ccc;
    border: none;
}
</style>

<form>
First name: <input type="text"/><br />
Last name: <input type="text" />
</form>