Re: [css-d] forms

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Rockwell
Many ways to do this, some add to html, some to css. You should be able to go to any website that has a form to inspect how they do it. Just wrap each label/input pair in a span/div and use a class of 'form-element--inline' or 'form-element--block'. Make the former display: inline-block and the

Re: [css-d] forms in table

2011-05-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
24.5.2011 6:03, bho...@aol.com wrote: Hi. I haven't had the need to use forms in a web site in several years, but when I did, I set them up in tables using strictly HTML. So now I'm using CSS to lay out the table, I guess you mean you're using a bunch of div elements and trying to make

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-21 Thread James Leslie
-Original Message- According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I think these stats might only refer to those that

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread Lesley Binks
Alan K Baker wrote: I'm sorry, I should have said that I hadn't got round to testing in Firefox yet. I only tested in IE7 for now. I tend to try to get it right in one browser first, then tweak it later for the others and yes, the float:left *does* make a difference in other browsers.

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I think these stats

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread Lesley Binks
Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread david
Lesley Binks wrote: Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-14 Thread Alan K Baker
Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus - Original Message - From: Thierry Koblentz To: 'Alan K Baker' ; 'css-d' Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:58 PM Subject: RE: [css-d] Forms The overflow and zoom put the backgrounds and boxes in their correct places

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-13 Thread Alan K Baker
Antiquitus - Original Message - From: Thierry Koblentz To: 'Alan K Baker' ; 'css-d' Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:44 AM Subject: RE: [css-d] Forms -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Alan K Baker Sent

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-13 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I'm sorry, the '#' was a typo. I was using 'form' not #form' :-) The overflow and zoom put the backgrounds and boxes in their correct places, but the input {float:left} makes no difference. Those fields just stay stuck together and won't align. It makes a difference in Firefox. You were

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Alan K Baker Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:21 PM To: css-d Subject: [css-d] Forms Hi Gang. I've set up a simple Form at: www.webbwize.co.uk/Test_Area/Register/ with a stylesheet

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-12 Thread Alan K Baker
www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus - Original Message - From: Thierry Koblentz To: 'Alan K Baker' ; 'css-d' Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:09 AM Subject: RE: [css-d] Forms -Original

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Alan K Baker Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:10 PM To: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] Forms Hi Thierry. I set a float on #form input but it makes no difference. If it didn't make any

Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother

2008-06-25 Thread jeroen vannevel
] Subject: Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #register { position : relative; top : 225px; width : 450px; //float : left; } #login { position : relative; top : 100px; width : 400px; } Jerome - Original Message - From: jeroen

Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother

2008-06-25 Thread David Laakso
jeroen vannevel wrote: So now they are placed right below eachother, but I can't move them 100px to the right. I've tried it by placing them both in a div, and margin this div, but that didn't work. http://www.speedzor.com/members.php greetings, jeroen #register { position :

Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother

2008-06-25 Thread jeroen vannevel
I tried this, but it still doesn't make any difference. Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:34:18 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother jeroen vannevel wrote: So now they are placed right

Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother

2008-06-25 Thread David Laakso
jeroen vannevel wrote: I tried this, but it still doesn't make any difference. http://www.speedzor.com/members.php #register { left: 100px;---:: add this //float : left;---:: delete this } #login { left: 100px;---:: add this } Dunno. Working on a /local

Re: [css-d] forms cant' be placed below eachother

2008-06-24 Thread tedd
At 5:32 PM +0200 6/24/08, jeroen vannevel wrote: Hi, For some reason, my 2 forms can't be placed underneath eachother. I want register vertically right below the login form. Does someone see the problem here? http://www.speedzor.com/members.php greetings, jeroen Take out those absolutes and

Re: [css-d] Forms and CSS

2007-12-02 Thread Lisa Goettel
On Dec 1, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Yoyo Etc wrote: I am about to revamp a long form I created a while ago and I want to use CSS to style it. This will be my first form styled with CSS. Does anyone have any good online resources they can point me to that show how to do this? I also found this

Re: [css-d] Forms and CSS

2007-12-01 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Hi Tina, Give Stu Nichols CSS Play a shot: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/form on this page underneath the form, there are other links to different styles done to forms by other designer/authors. Elli --- Yoyo Etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am about to revamp a long form I created a while

Re: [css-d] forms not displaying correctly

2007-01-03 Thread Jens Brueckmann
Hi Phil, the sign up boxes aren't displaying correctly http://www.yourplanetneedsyou.org/ I did not check in IE7 but IE6 SP1, Opera 9.10 and Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows 2000. I am not quite sure how the boxes should be displayed, but on a related issue, in Opera and Firefox the page is

Re: [css-d] forms not displaying correctly

2007-01-03 Thread Sasha Gerrand
On 04/01/07, Phil Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone check my site as I'm on a mac in Firefox, checked in latest IE on a pc but I have been told the sign up boxes aren't displaying correctly How are the input elements, in the form on the left hand side of the layout, meant to be

Re: [css-d] forms FF2.0 vs. IE7

2006-12-11 Thread Roger Roelofs
Raine, On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Raine wrote: I have a weird thing going on in a form. http://ececil.net/searchform.php In FireFox 2.0 the background color of input fields are white, but the same page in IE7 shows background color...a pale yellow as the background of the fields up in

Re: [css-d] forms FF2.0 vs. IE7

2006-12-11 Thread david
Raine wrote: I have a weird thing going on in a form. http://ececil.net/searchform.php In FireFox 2.0 the background color of input fields are white, but the same page in IE7 shows background color...a pale yellow as the background of the fields up in the header, and a bright green on

Re: [css-d] Forms in IE and FF, distances between elements when using float

2006-09-15 Thread Mattias Brändström
Roger Roelofs wrote: Mattias, On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Mattias Brändström wrote: This gives me the a small vertical space between the elements in FF and a big one (perhaps 3 times larger) in IE. What I want is the FF version. Is there some trick to get this to show the same way in IE?

Re: [css-d] Forms in IE and FF, distances between elements when using float

2006-09-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mattias Brändström wrote: This gives me the a small vertical space between the elements in FF and a big one (perhaps 3 times larger) in IE. What I want is the FF version. Is there some trick to get this to show the same way in IE? http://keso.brasse.org/foo.html Some lose margins creating

Re: [css-d] Forms in IE and FF, distances between elements when using float

2006-09-15 Thread Mattias Brändström
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Mattias Brändström wrote: This gives me the a small vertical space between the elements in FF and a big one (perhaps 3 times larger) in IE. What I want is the FF version. Is there some trick to get this to show the same way in IE? http://keso.brasse.org/foo.html

Re: [css-d] Forms in IE and FF, distances between elements when using float

2006-09-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mattias Brändström wrote: [...]Is there some trick to get this to show the same way in IE? http://keso.brasse.org/foo.html div.row {height: 1%;} That removed the gap completely in IE. If I increase the gap to 1em (or more) it still render as no gap in IE. Any idea why that is? Yes,

Re: [css-d] forms background color bug IE

2006-08-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's a background color applied to a fieldset - looks good everywhere xcept IE of course... Of course... :-) - http://www.fatgraffix.com/myhl-dev/myhl-devquinn/dev04a.html One way to solve it...

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-08-03 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
J. Robson wrote: Hi, Which the BEST form of use FORM ELEMENTS (web standards, usability and acessibity) and flexible with CSS? Vertical Form / Column Form / Margin Form and the other layoyut. There's no best form layout. Each situation will call for something different. Just make sure

Re: [css-d] Forms Best Pratices

2006-08-03 Thread Alex Robinson
At 10:16 -0300 3/8/06, J. Robson wrote: Which the Best Pratices Semantic to HTML FORM (web standards, usability and acessibity) and flexible with CSS? See the answer that Zoe Gillenwater just sent to your previous nearly identical question: At 09:03 -0400 3/8/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote:

Re: [css-d] forms, standards accessibility vs CMS: or how I learned to start worrying and hate web apps

2006-07-25 Thread cj
On 7/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know what tables are, Mandrake? The CMSes are using tables to try and infect our precious fluid body tags. -- Gen. Jack D. Ripper I have a form. Labels off to the left, fields to the right. There additional columns of fields can be

Re: [css-d] forms, standards accessibility vs CMS: or how I learned to start worrying and hate web apps

2006-07-25 Thread MarcLuzietti
cj wrote: tell the label the id of the control it's associated with. easy peasy! === And if you have multiple first name fields but only one label? Can't have multiple fields with the same id. It's not merely a CSS question, no, but everything ties in to other

Re: [css-d] forms, standards accessibility vs CMS: or how I learned to start worrying and hate web apps

2006-07-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 3:43 PM -0400 7/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a form. Labels off to the left, fields to the right. There additional columns of fields can be added or removed by the user. Since it's not displaying data, a table isn't really called for . . . or is it? Can you use a data table to

Re: [css-d] forms: tables or CSS?

2006-06-11 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 6/11/06, pablo / silvasonic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what do you guys think? tables or CSS? and if tables, what's the best way to go about it, so that the form is still accessible. Well, personally, I tend to use a divlabel/labelinput/div markup for forms (something like this:

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-05-29 Thread Ian Young
Right now it shows up under the field label. I am trying to get it to the right of the field box. For some reason it does not want to be there. Here is the address: http://pamshop.com/Template1/exp1.php I'd be happy for any suggestions. Mark, I guess this is because you have the

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Fellowes
I moved the hints and errors text next to the label text thinking it would then be on the same line. For some odd reason though it still falls below the label text. Also, I tried increasing the width of the formcontainer with the same reaction. Is it possible that it's a problem to control

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Fellowes wrote: I moved the hints and errors text next to the label text thinking it would then be on the same line. For some odd reason though it still falls below the label text. Also, I tried increasing the width of the formcontainer with the same reaction. Is it possible that

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-05-29 Thread Ingo Chao
Mark, view the source of the parsed page in your browser, copy it to your editor and start debugging in a plain html file. plabel for=kt_login_userUsername: br class=clearfixplain / div class=KT_field_errorInvalid username./div /label/p A div cannot be a child of a label. Validate your code.

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Fellowes
 Yep, thank you. The br class is getting added after parsing. It's most likely in one of the class files. My apologies. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:29 PM -07:00 To: Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Forms Mark, view

Re: [css-d] Forms

2006-05-16 Thread David Dorward
On 16/05/06, Steve LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me how to control the height of a textbox as well as the font size that appears in the textbox. With the height and font-size properties. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [css-d] forms vertical spacing

2006-01-11 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
Any recommendations or pointers appreciated. How can I reduce the vertical spacing between elements of the form? The goal is a tighter, sleeker look (without images). Adjusting margin, padding and line-height are not doing what I had hoped or I don't understand how to use them. See sample

Re: [css-d] forms vertical spacing

2006-01-11 Thread tedd
Any recommendations or pointers appreciated. How can I reduce the vertical spacing between elements of the form? The goal is a tighter, sleeker look (without images). Adjusting margin, padding and line-height are not doing what I had hoped or I don't understand how to use them. See sample with

Re: [css-d] forms vertical spacing / roud corner sample

2006-01-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tedd, Nick, That did the trick. It also helped fix a problem with radio buttons not lining up in IE. fieldset p { margin-bottom: .1em; margin-top: .1em; } I made a sample page with rounded corners in rounded corners. I haven't gotten into trying this with a

Re: [css-d] Forms: Fluid layout: Best technique?

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Crockford
Michael Hulse wrote: What would you suggest as the best technique for laying-out forms in a fluid-width site? Any fluid-width form examples available? I plan to use fieldsets/labels... I would prefer to have the label to the left of the input, not above. Any links, tips, suggestions

Re: [css-d] Forms: Fluid layout: Best technique?

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Tony Crockford wrote: I generally refer to the ideas in use here: http://www.aplus.co.yu/css/forms/?css=1 Very helpful, thanks! :) Micky -- BCC for Privacy: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/bcc-for-privacy.html My del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/mhulse

Re: [css-d] Forms

2005-09-23 Thread Alan Gutierrez
* Rob Cochrane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-23 01:20]: Alan Gutierrez wrote: A newbie question on styling forms. A structure question... What elements do I use to markup structure? DL/DT/DD? UL/LI? For me label is a pretty logical way of marking up forms along with

RE: [css-d] Forms

2005-09-22 Thread Rowan @ Jetboy
No list tags; they'd be used for styling lists. ;) Try fieldset, which can be nested; legend, but use a span inside it and style that instead; and label. I get better styling mileage using label for ... before or after the form control than wrapping it around the control. Floats are definitely

Re: [css-d] Forms

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Heilmann
No list tags; they'd be used for styling lists. ;) Try fieldset, which can be nested; legend, but use a span inside it and style that instead; and label. I get better styling mileage using label for ... before or after the form control than wrapping it around the control. Floats are

RE: [css-d] Forms

2005-09-22 Thread Rowan @ Jetboy
snip - Title attributes are a tricky thing, and definitely NOT a valid accessibility fallback. Titles explain more than meets the eye (or the ear) on the first encounter - but not all users have title reading enabled or have the patience/aptitude to see the rendered tooltip a title attribute

Re: [css-d] Forms

2005-09-22 Thread Rob Cochrane
Alan Gutierrez wrote: A newbie question on styling forms. A structure question... What elements do I use to markup structure? DL/DT/DD? UL/LI? For me label is a pretty logical way of marking up forms along with fieldset all are designed to work in a form. IE has some

Re: [css-d] Forms select form

2005-08-04 Thread Christian Heilmann
On 8/4/05, Abyss Information [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any good select form styling code? because the code that I am using doesn't seem to work. Form elements cannott be controlled consistently across browsers.