Hi Travis Forms is something I haven't managed to quite get my head around yet in Taco HTML edit, but I must do that as they are going to be absolutely essential for a project which was born here at Mac Access a few days ago. I won't go on about that too much here, as it isn't really relevant. But the use of Taco is going to be something which I need to learn properly. Actually though, most of the syntax in the HTML language is fairly strait forward once you see it written down. But actually Taco itself produces a lot of extra code which you really don't need when, for example, you are producing tables. An example of that table production can be found in the accessible version of the TC catalogue which Lynne produced, (with a little help from yours truly) a short time ago. The tables are pretty basic, and yet they work very well. Accessibility was Lynne's primary objective when she produced that catalogue, (all hand-coded I might add), and I think she did a reasonable job of it. As she said to me just now, it doesn't look especially pretty from a visual perspective. But the point here is that it does what it was supposed to do, give the user access to the catalogue.
But anyway, as I've already said, forms are something which I really really am going to have to get my head around. Actually, I have a form produced already but the problem I have is that I don't have a clue when it comes to PHP, and the form requires a PHP output script in order to function. I wonder, would you be able to help us with that? If so I'll contact you off list. Gordon On 7 Nov 2012, at 16:28, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: taco html editor has the ability to insert code into the html document. It's under the insert menu option, it gives options for commonly used things like links, images, image maps and the like, then there's a link at the bottom of that list used for what they call advanced tags. This offers the insertion of nearly 100 html tags, and upon selecting one of these tags out of the table, it then offers additional choices (also in a table format) based on which tag you selected. For example, when selecting the form tag, it then offers choices of title, method, action, and so forth, all things that can appear in a <form> </form> tag set. Admittedly, you do need to know html fairly well, since taco html editor assumes you know what you're doing, and won't doublecheck your work for errors such as incompatible tags, but anyone who's generating html pages should know what they're doing anyway. I freely admit that many folks don't know nearly as much as they should, and depend on their html editor (especially those using tools like front page and such) to do all the work for them, which is a real shame, because those kinds of editors almost always produce bloated messy unreadable code, but if the user knows html well, that nonsense can be cleaned up though it does take some doing since such editors tend to break what the user fixes, which is why I much prefer one like taco, that lets you do what you like, even if it's not proper, it's an editor, not a code checker. I'd not expect my word processor to write my paragraphs for me, and I certainly don't expect (in fact, actively hate) html editors that try to write my html code for me. Taco html editor is just that, an editor that stays out of my way, and allows me to get my work done, which is something I definitely can't say for some other editors. But, back to the original point of the post, the insert menu allows you to insert code into your document anywhere it's needed, and it will even add the various options for you as well, but it's up to you to know which options you need. That (at least to me) is exactly how an editor should work. I can't praise taco html editor enough, and the fact that it's accessible out of the box is definitely a major plus. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
