How do I make an editable DIV look like a text field?

Question

I've got a DIV which has contentEditable=true so the user can edit it. The problem is that it doesn't look like a text field, so it may not be clear to the user that it can be edited.

Is there a way that I can style the DIV so that it appears to the user like a text input field?

Answer 1

These look the same as their real counterparts in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. They degrade gracefully and look OK in Opera and IE9, too.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/AbKTQ/

CSS:

textarea {     height: 28px;     width: 400px; }  #textarea {     -moz-appearance: textfield-multiline;     -webkit-appearance: textarea;     border: 1px solid gray;     font: medium -moz-fixed;     font: -webkit-small-control;     height: 28px;     overflow: auto;     padding: 2px;     resize: both;     width: 400px; }  input {     margin-top: 5px;     width: 400px; }  #input {     -moz-appearance: textfield;     -webkit-appearance: textfield;     background-color: white;     background-color: -moz-field;     border: 1px solid darkgray;     box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 0 lightgray inset;       font: -moz-field;     font: -webkit-small-control;     margin-top: 5px;     padding: 2px 3px;     width: 398px;     } 

HTML:

<textarea>I am a textarea</textarea> <div id="textarea" contenteditable>I look like textarea</div>  <input value="I am an input" /> <div id="input" contenteditable>I look like an input</div> 

Output:

Answer 2

If you use bootstrap just add form-control class. For example:

class="form-control"