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Fixed form field errors turning labels and typed text red - #32596

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Describe the problem you are solving

This PR stops Shade's Field from turning its label and typed text red when it has an error.

The colour was set on Field and inherited by its contents. Screens inside a <form> kept a dark label because of a global form label rule, so the same error state looked different from screen to screen.

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/DYA-215

Before and after images for custom fields, Slack and the newsletter modal are on the ticket.

Changelog for devs

  • Removed data-[invalid=true]:text-destructive from Shade's Field
  • aria-invalid on the input (red border) and FieldError (red message) now show the error

Changelog for customers

  • Fixed form errors turning the field label and typed text red in Admin

Notes

  • This changes every Field with data-invalid, including released screens, with no flag
  • Saving, validation and aria-invalid are unchanged
  • Checked by hand, Admin 7 off: custom fields, Slack and the newsletter modal
  • Checked on Slack with Admin 7 on, in light and dark: colours are correct
  • Tests: Shade passes (430), and Admin acceptance for Settings and member detail passes (526). Those ran with this change on top of two unrelated local commits
  • Not checked: Storybook, the offers and recommendations modals, or the rest of Admin's acceptance tests
  • The recommendation description field has an error state but no FieldError, so it would rely on the red border alone. I didn't find code setting that error in the recommendation modals I searched

Technical debt

  • The global form label rule in element-styles.css stays. It no longer causes a visible difference here

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  • Improves the user experience
  • Enhances the readability of our code
  • Simplifies the maintenance of our software
  • Fixes a bug
  • Provide a core layer to allow one of the points above

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  • I have added thorough tests.
  • Do we need to implement analytics?
  • Will this be part of a product update? If yes, please write one phrase about this update.

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/DYA-215/field-error-state-color-scheme-for-label-and-input-field-text-doesnt

Field set a destructive text colour on itself when invalid, which its label
and input inherited. Screens inside a form kept a dark label because of a
global form label rule, so the same error state looked different from screen
to screen. Removing the inherited colour leaves the input's red border and
FieldError's red message to show the error everywhere.
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The shared fieldVariants class no longer applies destructive text color to fields with data-invalid="true". Its layout and orientation variants remain unchanged.

Suggested reviewers: 9larsons

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 080ef

The styling change is mergeable. A regression test would help prevent invalid labels and typed text from turning red again.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: removing the automatic red text styling on invalid fields so labels and typed text no longer turn red. The raw summary confirms that fieldVariants no longer applies de…
Description check Passed The description states the change: Shade's Field no longer turns its label and typed text red on error. It explains the cause (inherited colour plus a global form label rule), lists the code change, a…
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Type-Safe Boundaries Passed PASS. The pull request changes only the static fieldVariants class string in apps/shade/src/components/ui/field.tsx. It removes data-[invalid=true]:text-destructive and adds no boundary-data con…
New Files Are Typescript Passed The pull request adds no files. It modifies only the existing TypeScript React file apps/shade/src/components/ui/field.tsx; therefore, it does not add a .js, .jsx, .cjs, or .mjs source file.
Tooling Ownership Passed The pull request changes only apps/shade/src/components/ui/field.tsx. It does not add or move scripts, tools, shared configuration, or tooling entrypoints. The change is an app UI class update, so t…
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The title names the main change: removing the automatic red text styling on invalid fields so labels and typed text no longer turn red. The raw summary confirms that fieldVariants no longer applies destructive text styling on data-invalid, which matches the title's focus.

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The description states the change: Shade's Field no longer turns its label and typed text red on error. It explains the cause (inherited colour plus a global form label rule), lists the code change, and notes the test and manual checks. It matches the changeset.

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PASS. The pull request changes only the static fieldVariants class string in apps/shade/src/components/ui/field.tsx. It removes data-[invalid=true]:text-destructive and adds no boundary-data consumption, schemas, duplicated types, any, unchecked assertions, or TypeScript suppression.

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apps/shade/src/components/ui/field.tsx: 1

55-55: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a regression test for the invalid Field text color.

The data-[invalid=true]:text-destructive class was removed from fieldVariants, and no test checks that the class stays absent. Restoring it would leave the Shade unit suite passing. Assert on the class string, following the aria-[invalid=true] checks in checkbox.test.tsx and radio-group.test.tsx.

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Review comment at @apps/shade/src/components/ui/field.tsx at line 55:
Add a regression test for fieldVariants that asserts its rendered class string
does not contain data-[invalid=true]:text-destructive, preserving the invalid
Field text-color behavior.

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- Line 55: Add a regression test for fieldVariants that asserts its rendered
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