Caused by commit 143581e67fbcf971bfdadf2ad42535a6912caf73 which relates to JENKINS-24625.

I don't think explicitly setting the background-color is the answer to JENKINS-24625.

I fixed the issue with the search bar by specifically targeting the input elements instead:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1396

Another solution I can think of is not setting the foreground color of inputs, then the background colors don't have to be set either.

Assuming it works, I would go with the later of your two fixes listed above i.e. remove the setting of the font color on the input. I was not able to test this the other day because I did not know how you were changing your colour scheme to cause the original problem you were trying to fix.

Thanks for the feedback Tom.

I've implemented your suggestion:

https://github.com/quinox/jenkins/commit/78d222c607d31bdcfd5df7c20dbefe3ec937f3de

The differences for most people will be subtle, instead of #333-on-white you get <default text color (#000)>-on-white. You shouldn't see any other changes. For me the change is significant, I get usable input fields again.

I looked at a few CSS frameworks yesterday, some follow the road of color-style-everything (fe. Bootstrap) while others don't color-style input elements at all (fe. Yahoo!'s Pure CSS)

Tom, I'd like to see this fixed this week – if you're busy I'd just revert the bad change for JENKINS-24625 for now. Please let me know.

Sorry Daniel. I merged this and created a PR at https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1423. We will merge upstream shortly (assuming it passes the build).

Great, thanks Tom!