Colored background showing in text/search fields

A Former User @blackcoffez

@blackcoffez Oh, nice! Thanks so much worked for me too!

blackcoffez

blackcoffez @Guest

@leopik2
Setting -> advanced setting -> system -> turn off "Use hardware acceleration when available".

A Former User @blackcoffez

@blackcoffez @donq yeah but cmon that would also disable acceleration of videos and such ... I mean, honestly, how can something like this even ship? I got the same issue on a GeForce 1070, so it's definitely not intel only.

donq

donq @Guest

@tabmow said in Graphical problems with inputs/textareas:

I mean, honestly, how can something like this even ship?

Oh, have you been involved in software development? I am (not Opera dev of course) - and this is relatively minor issue, affecting mostly only visual appearance.
Often much more serious problems (like corrupting data - or like latest W10 update, which sometimes just deletes user documents) slip into releases. Read dilbert comics strips - you will discover many (sad) truths about software development...

As you see problems on GeForce too, then that is for better - we can hope fix sooner

A Former User @donq

@donq Yes I am, working in a very big company in fact ... and user interface is one of the most important things of any product, so how this could not receive the utmost amount of testing is beyond me, especially as this doesn't seem to be a rare issue at all (I have very common hardware).

PS: oh and that's from me as a service developer. For the end user, having "trivial" bugs in the UI/UX can break your product much more than any technical debt or other stupid bugs that will make us cringe as developers.

A Former User @blackcoffez

@blackcoffez you re the best!

A Former User

Hi,

Since I updated the last version of Opera Version :56.0.3051.40
The text fields and textarea are showing strange sort of shadow on the bottom of them + the text inside is backgrounded blue as it would be selected.
This doesn't make this under other browser like Firefox and Chrome.

A Former User @Guest

@pololopo

Same question and answers all over the thread. See, for instance:

'Text problems with Opera 56'

https://forums.opera.com/topic/29018/text-problems-with-opera-56

leocg

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A Former User

Text input fields are flashing in an odd manner. When i try it on an unstylized html text input element, the following happens: Once you start typing, after one second anything you typed will be surrounded by gray. If you hover your mouse over it it will turn white again, but after one second it will turn blue. When i hover over another input element (while i was still typing in the first one) the text gets the same gray background as before in the first element, but in addition the rest of the first input field becomes a lighter shade of gray. This lighter shade of gray only goes as far to the right as the right edge of the input element below it. Tried putting on deafault settings did not work. tried in other browsers functions normally. Opera Version 56.0.3051.36 on Desktop Windows 10.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest

@jakobo Lots of people are encountering this issue. There are other threads on it. Long story short, you need to disable hardware acceleration in settings for now.

rejzor

rejzor

I wasn't getting this with Opera 55, so I'm confused what is causing it exactly. It looks like this:

Whole field gets highlighted and as I'm typing, all the text gets highlighted like I'm selecting it (or using Ctrl+A). And as I'm typing large amounts of text, whole field starts flashing like it's selecting and unselecting the whole field. Why I'm suspicious it's something specific is because I'm not getting this ANYWHERE else but on Reddit.

Only addons I'm using is Feedly Notifier and Bitwarden. I do have integrated AdBlock enabled with all the basic lists selected except Malware blocking list.