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[css-forms-1] Inherit basic appearance from fieldset to legend
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lukewarlow committed Apr 13, 2026
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NOTE: The inheritance prevents authors from mixing native and non-native parts for the same control.

A legend element has [=basic appearance=] if its ancestor fieldset has [=basic appearance=].

## Design Principles for the [=Basic Appearance=] ## {#basic-appearance-principles}

The following design principles apply to the design of the [=basic appearance=] stylesheet for form controls,
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To apply the [=basic appearance=] on individual controls, the following code is used:

<pre class="lang-css">
input, textarea, meter, progress, button, select, fieldset, legend {
input, textarea, meter, progress, button, select, fieldset {
appearance: base;
}
</pre>
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color: rgb(131, 17, 0);
}

input, textarea, meter, progress, button, select, fieldset, legend {
input, textarea, meter, progress, button, select, fieldset {
appearance: base;
}
</pre>
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color: rgb(0, 249, 0);
}

input, textarea, meter, progress, button, select, fieldset, legend {
input, textarea, meter, progress, button, select, fieldset {
appearance: base;
}
</pre>
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ISSUE: Move to HTML.

When a fieldset is in base appearance mode the layout and rendering behaviour as
When a fieldset has [=basic appearance=] the layout and rendering behaviour as
[defined](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-fieldset-and-legend-elements:the-fieldset-element-2) in the HTML
specification, do not apply to the fieldset or its legend.

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