Chrome's autofill hiding text input's background image
What you need is:
move background image from <input> element
HTML
<div class="email-wrapper"> <input type="text" placeholder="Email" name="email" id="email" /></div>CSS
.email-wrapper { display: inline-block; background: url(https://www.apec-econ.ca/system/style/images/icon-small-person.png) no-repeat scroll 4px 9px;}and postpone changing of background-color when autofill
CSS
input:-webkit-autofill { transition: background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s;}Updated your fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/65wkgqs0/6/