Gazette Theme: Contact Form fields use the site's background color

[ktyfuller604]

Quick summary

In the Gazette theme, what you select as the Background color in Colors & Backgrounds will apply to form fields as well.

Similar report: https://github.com/Automattic/themes/issues/5397 (this report is for WooCommerce fields)

Steps to reproduce

1. Activate the Gazette theme
2. Change the background color to black (for example)
3. Add a contact form
4. Apply a background color to the contact form

What you expected to happen

The form fills would take on the same background color as the background color set on the contact form block.

What actually happened

The form fill fields were the same color as the background of the site. And there was no way to change that without CSS.

I also noticed that all of the fill fields in the sidebar when clicking on any block were also black (see the screenshot below).

Context

Customer Report

Their screenshots:

Simple, Atomic or both?

Simple, Atomic

Theme-specific issue?

Gazette

Browser, operating system and other notes

n/a

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Workaround details

Provided CSS to resolve the issue.

[aisajib]

📌 SCRUBBING

• Tested on Simple ✅
• Tested on AT ✅
• Tested on Self-hosted ✅
• Replicable on Core - The Colors and Background option doesn't appear for this theme on a self-hosted site.

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

In the Gazette theme, what you select as the Background color in Colors & Backgrounds will apply to form fields as well.

I'm wondering if this isn't the expected result. I tested using a different theme (Canard) and here's what I see with a black background selected in Colors & Background (site-wide) and no background color selected on the Form block:

If the form fields didn't take the site background color, it would have looked odd in my opinion.

Here's another form block from the Appleton (FSE) theme:

I did notice, however, that changing the form block's background color doesn't affect the background of the fields. Here's the Canard theme with the Form block's background set to Red:

On an FSE theme (Appleton), changing the Form background does change the background of the field as well.

Also, I could replicate the background color showing up on the block editor, but this only happened on an atomic site. Screenshot:

Overall, I'm slightly confused about what exactly is the expected result here, and why it's working differently on different themes.

I'm moving this to the themes repo so the theme folks can take a look at it.

📌 ACTIONS

• Marked as Triaged for Quality Squad review
• Moved to the themes repo.