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Styling text input caret

I want to style the caret of a focused <input type='text'/>. Specifically, the color and thickness.

Solution

  • If you are using a webkit browser you can change the color of the caret by following the next CSS snippet. I'm not sure if It's possible to change the format with CSS.

    input,
textarea {
    font-size: 24px;
    padding: 10px;
    
    color: red;
    text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #000;
    -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
}

input::-webkit-input-placeholder,
textarea::-webkit-input-placeholder {
    color:
    text-shadow: none;
    -webkit-text-fill-color: initial;
}

    Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/8k1k0awb/