Hey hey!
Here's one for all you web designers out there! Are you finding random yellow input boxes on your HTML forms? Here's why - the ever so helpful Google Toolbar parses your page and paint yellow all of the input boxes whose name contains the word email, or any input boxes after the text "email". So remember to say thanks to Google for the accusations you'll get from all of the clients you've ever made websites for...!
I wouldn't mind so much if the toolbar did it's job properly but it paints the wrong fields! For example if you have "Email Address:" then it's textbox, it paints the textbox yellow fine. But if you have the textbox then "Email Address" and another textbox for say, password, on the next line, the password box gets incorrectly coloured in! Well done Google.
I've worked out how to get around this so anyone who hasn't already worked it out, read on.
Firstly, change the name of any fields that contain the word "email" to another word, so "em_ad" works.
Secondly, to get rid of their assumption that any textbox that follows the word "email" or "email address" you can create a textbox with style="display:none;". the type here must be "textbox" and not "hidden" as Google ignores type="hidden" and jumps to the following textbox. It misses display:none so you can make it think that is a real field.
Voila! All fixed from what I've seen so future products can be all good. Hope this helps some people out there
Shout back if there are any other "helpful" plugins/toolbars that redesign your website for you. I know Skype does a similar thing with phone numbers but that actually looks like Skype and not just a bad web designer
