No styles for input[type="tel"]

Thanks for the suggestion – I’ll pass these suggestions along to our developers for consideration in an update.

This is technically a separate issue but related enough that I’ll tack it on here. When a form is placed in the sidebar, the background color and border color of inputs is very low contrast and so it’s hard to see the form fields at all.

Hi Mark, I put a search form in both the right sidebar and the footer but both look OK to me:

A screenshot of what you’re seeing would be helpful so I can try to replicate it. Thanks!

This is probably also not something we’d be able to change at this stage, but fortunately easy to tweak with CSS.

Just checked. That’s because the search widget input is specifically styled rather than a general cascading rule to handle inputs in sidebars:

.widget .search-field { /* this is a very specific rule! */
	background: #fff;
}

Here’s a Gravity Form in the sidebar (without the custom css I wrote): https://cloudup.com/cFheW965uOb

Got it. Thanks for the screenshot, I’ll pass it along to our developers.

Version 1.1.4 of Sequential is now available and should fix the input field background colour issue, which was the second issue reported in this thread.

The initial issue mentioned is still in our system as a possible future enhancement but has not been added yet.

That’s great! I hope they fix the other issue too, but any improvement is a good improvement ??

Thanks for letting me know.

So this bug report sent me on a bit of an odyssey that ended with an issue and accepted pull request on _s where I think this issue originated from. The new code now includes all input types!

Now that the code has gone in upstream, I hope you’ll consider pulling in those changes to Sequential and other Automattic themes that have the same problem (I know Sela does and I’m sure it’s not the only one)!

That’s great that your patch is now in Underscores – that’ll be useful for new themes going forward.

I hope you’ll consider pulling in those changes to Sequential

The enhancement ticket is still in our queue for Sequential. We’ll keep you posted here.

I spoke with our developers, and for a tweak like this, we’ll go back and modify old themes on a case-by-case basis.

we’ll go back and modify old themes on a case-by-case basis.

Totally understand that seeing that some themes may include tweaks. That said, I believe both Sequential and Sela had the code verbatim, so I’d hope that the changes would both be easy and not too risky. Fingers crossed!