Title: plugin update removes form field CSS formatting
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# plugin update removes form field CSS formatting

 *  Resolved [Tamala Huntley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thuntley/)
 * (@thuntley)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-removes-form-field-css-formatting/)
 * (i just copied and pasted my inquiry from Genesis WP group) -> Wondering if anybody
   knows how to fix and I’m just missing something–>> I update Genesis Enews Extended
   plugin and some of the styling of my optin forms disappears. Never happened with
   previous updates. I have edited the CSS for subbox, subbox1 and screenread… nada.
   Even added the “awesome” !important… smile emoticon still nada. I have it on 
   many client sites and hate to update and not be able to fix… as is the case with
   one now. smile emoticon Am I going to kick myself for missing something simple?
 * website 1 – [http://www.rochellegriffin.com](http://www.rochellegriffin.com) (
   this site I updated but didn’t have time to debug today so I switched back to
   previous version. here’s an image to show the before and after update – [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ec41OuqIpsbExvUkI2M3hrdlE/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ec41OuqIpsbExvUkI2M3hrdlE/view?usp=sharing))
 * website 2 – [http://www.affirmationsofgod.com](http://www.affirmationsofgod.com)(
   this site is new so there was no update of the plugin, just using latest version
   2.0.1 from onset)
 * With the new site I thought it was strange but then when I couldn’t get it to
   work I just went with it and worked around it. But then today I updated the first
   site and the same thing happened.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-enews-extended/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-enews-extended/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Brandon Kraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftbj/)
 * (@kraftbj)
 * Code Wrangler
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-removes-form-field-css-formatting/#post-6414447)
 * Resolved. 2.0 uses HTML5 placeholder attributes which can be styled separately.
 *  [sarahsbakestudio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarahsbakestudio/)
 * (@sarahsbakestudio)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-removes-form-field-css-formatting/#post-6414519)
 * Is there somewhere that shows which CSS attributes were actually changed? Not
   sure what I need to change to get my form looking the way it looked before the
   update. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [Tamala Huntley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thuntley/)
 * (@thuntley)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-removes-form-field-css-formatting/#post-6414527)
 * sarasbakestudio, this is what I had to use for what you see on [http://www.affirmationsofgod.com](http://www.affirmationsofgod.com):
 *     ```
       .sidebar #subbox, .sidebar #subbox1 {color: #24003B; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; border-radius: 5px; box-shadow: none; border: 0; background: #c6b9a2;}
   
       .sidebar .enews-widget input[type="submit"] {
       	background: #24003b;
       	border: none;
       	box-shadow: none;
       	width: 100%;
       border-radius: 5px; font-size: 22px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold;
       }
   
       .sidebar .enews-widget input:hover[type="submit"] {
       	opacity: 0.7;
       	transition: 0;
       }
   
       .enews ::-webkit-input-placeholder {
          color: #24003B; opacity: 1;
       }
   
       .enews :-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 18- */
          color: #24003B; opacity: 1;
       }
   
       .enews ::-moz-placeholder {  /* Firefox 19+ */
          color: #24003B; opacity: 1;
       }
   
       .enews :-ms-input-placeholder {
          color: #24003B; opacity: 1;
       }
       ```
   
 *  [Liz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizschneider/)
 * (@lizschneider)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-removes-form-field-css-formatting/#post-6414814)
 * I am having a similar problem, I used the code you recommended above, changing
   colors/font size/etc. For some odd reason the Firstname (subbox1) and Email (
   subbox) fields appear differently so I’ve had to micromanage them and code separately,
   surely that shouldn’t be necessary.
 * [http://seniorcareadvocates-stl.com/](http://seniorcareadvocates-stl.com/)
 *     ```
       .sidebar #subbox1 {
       	color: #333333;
       	font-size: 14px;
       	line-height: 22px;
       	border-radius: 5px;
       	box-shadow: none;
               padding-left: 5px;
       	padding-top: 5px;
       	padding-bottom: 5px;
       	border: none;
       	width: 100%;
       	background: #EFF2DE;
       } 
   
       .sidebar #subbox {
       	color: #333333;
       	font-size: 14px;
       	line-height: 22px;
       	border-radius: 5px;
       	box-shadow: none;
       	border: none;
       	width: 100%;
       	background: #EFF2DE;
       }
       ```
   

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