Lozette wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed some odd behavious with IE6.0
> colouring input boxes yellow (or any other colour!) unexpectedly?
>
> I am using IE6.0.2 on WinXP Pro.
>
> I had a bug report from my boss and some clients, complaining that
> they were seeing yellow text input boxes on our site (when the boxes
> *should* be styled grey with CSS). After some investigation I found
> that not only was the same happening on my own machine on our site,
> but that I've also seen it happening on other *sites* (e.g.
> streetmap.co.uk, theregister.co.uk, even on the google groups sign-in
> page).
>
> I've not observed the same behaviour in Mozilla or NS (however, I've
> not tested in other versions of IE). It seems to be completely random:
> e.g. I can have two identically-constructed input boxes on one page,
> and one will be yellow and the other styled as it is intended to be.
>
> Has anyone else noticed the same behaviour? Is it a known IE issue? (I
> can't find any relevant bug reports). Or is it just something to do
> with the alignment of the planets over our office? :-)[/color]
It's not a bug, it's 'done' by the Google Toolbar.
It highlights input boxes with certain names.
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/000017.php
(thanks to Robert Mark Bram, who found this reference)
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IE bug? yellow-coloured input boxes 
