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Caret is a rectangle with Windows High Contrast Mode

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Information

  • Operating system and version: Windows 10 Home
  • Browser and version: Firefox 63.0.1 & IE 11.1.17134.0

Bug

When using transparent borders they aren’t transparent with Windows High Contrast Mode, so you can’t see that caret is a caret:

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Firefox or IE
  2. Navigate to http://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/dropdowns/
  3. Enable Windows High Contrast Mode (left) shift + (left) alt + print

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:9 (8 by maintainers)

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mdocommented, Jan 13, 2021

Unclear if clip-path has the best browser support… definitely doesn’t work in IE11 for sure.

Updated https://cdpn.io/emdeoh/pen/gOwQPXq with a clip-path example regardless.

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mdocommented, Jan 13, 2021

Confirming (hella late) that this is still an issue in v4.5.x and v5.x.

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