Forms items inherit text color while background stays the same.

[victor-yarema]

Commit 0b5badd fixed issue gh-157.
After that forms items inherit text color while background stays the same.
Before that all text in forms items always had adequate text and bg colors contrast from user agents default styles.
Now if we specify white text on black background for ancestor we will be able to read simple text but unable to see text in forms.
Test: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/FyhsL (forked from http://codepen.io/mattbrundage/pen/hFHoi).
Proposed solution: simply specify some color explicitly, e.g. "color: black;".
General proposal for further changes: text color should be modified with background to ensure that it doesn't break readability.

[brendon]

Yes, this one is a bit of a pain :)

[raphaelgoetter]

Yep, have the same problem since I use normalize :(

[battaglr]

IMHO, if you want your form elements to have a certain color, you should explicitly declare it, and don't trust on defaults. If you do, this kind of things could happen.

There's already some discussions about this on #414.

PS: if I had to choose, I would prefer to remove color: inherit instead of modifying it to color: black.

[brendon]

I agree, removing colour: inherit would make more sense. I think it's safer to allow the browser and operating system to set reasonable defaults.

[jonathantneal]

This has been resolved by #502.

[brendon]

Excellent!