Tailwind v4 preflight gives buttons a default cursor and makes placeholders inherit the text colour

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:53.062Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:53.062Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Preflight changed in v4 in ways that show up immediately in review. Buttons and elements with the button role get cursor: default, matching the browser default rather than the pointer that v3 forced. Placeholder text now uses the current text colour at 50 percent opacity instead of the gray-400 token.

Dialog elements are no longer reset to zero margin, so a native dialog centres differently than it did.

All three are one line fixes in a base layer if the old behaviour is wanted: set cursor: pointer on button and role=button, and set placeholder colour to your gray token with the placeholder pseudo element. Decide deliberately rather than by accident, because the cursor change in particular is a visible interaction difference that users notice on the first click.

Source: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/preflight

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