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.
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.
This is not a property you can individually target when the blue is the PDF default action. You might consider adding a custom color to the form field and then controlling that through javascript.
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.
Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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.
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