In Acrobat DC pro forms, how to turn off highlighting once fields are filled

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In Acrobat DC pro forms, how to turn off highlighting for those fields which are filled by users. Suppose there are 10 fillable text fields in a form, by default all fields show the blue highlight. As the user fill data in the first field and tab to second field, the blue highlight turns off for the first field and so on. At the end only those fields show highlight which are empty.

In short, how to set the blue highlight option only for empty fillable fields.

Help from the community is requested, please

try67 · Accepted Answer

This applies to all fields, though. They seem to want to do it to one field at a time, as they are filled in, and that can only be achieved if a script is used to create the highlighting by setting a fill color depending on the field's value.

Thom Parker · Answer

Actually, you can turn off field highlighting from a non-privileged (document) script.

app.runtimeHighlight = false;

Keep in mind that this is an application level property that is setup from from the Acrobat Preferences. So when this is changed, it is changed for all PDFs the user will open.

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