Highlighting of required fields

[AlexH]

We recently upgrade from JIRA 3.13.5 to JIRA 4.4.4 and one of the biggest little features we're missing in JIRA 4 is the way JIRA 3 highlighted missing fields when users clicked "submit" but failed to fill in a required field.

In JIRA 3 the highlight was a VERY EASY to see red background across the entire page for the field that wasn't properly filled in. In JIRA 4 it's a small red asterisk and sometimes a few words displayed in red under the field.

Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed to restore the old behavior?

[Alex Suslin · Accepted solution]

Hm... the 1st answer that come up to my mind is to rewrite some JIRA css rules

every field in <div calss="field-group"> and the child <div class="error"> when validation is occured.

So you may add some css tricks to rewrite the css for the parent element, or using javascript

P.S> As far as I know all the JIRA css are located in .\JIRA\atlassian-jira\ui

[AlexH]

Thanks Alex. I was hoping to avoid custom CSS, but I'll keep that in mind as a possible workaround. :)