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1. Auto close.
I put in the code you suggested, and, after a hell of a lot
of messing around it
came good, and now works. I don't know why I had so much
trouble, or why it
suddenly came good (suspect mismatched braces or types of
quote, but thank you.
Now I've got to put up a Thank you message, wait a second or
two, and then close
the box.
2. IE error box
You wrote:
>No, the warning messages won't be displayed if the IE
error box pops up.
>However, if you enter a series of spaces in the name
field, as described
>in step 14 on page 183, the JavaScript validation will be
fooled, but
>the PHP validation will stop the form from being
processed, and the
>warning message will appear.
more
As I read step 14, it is just one step in testing along the
way. It doesn't
seem to have any relevance to permanently disabling the IE
error box?
3. Text box width. As I only intend to use one feedback form,
I removed your
CSS file specifying the form dimensions, etc. According to
everything I can
find, you can specify the length of a text box in either
characters or pixels.
I currently have:
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" maxlength="30"
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" width="600px"
maxlength="50"
Dreamweaver shows a quite small name box, and a much longer
e-mail box. However
they are both 20 characters long on the actual form.
Maxlength works, but the
box length does not seem to be affected by changes to the
specified values.
4. Text font style in text input box.
I would have thought that the bodystyle text would be used
for the form inputs,
but it isn't, so where is it defined?
5. Form prettification
Can you, for example, put a table inside the form, and then
put the name, etc,
into different cells?
Thank you for all your help.
Clancy

Answer 1

Clancy wrote:
> Now I've got to put up a Thank you message, wait a
second or two, and then close
> the box.
I'm quite willing to provide assistance with problems arising
from my
book, but this goes considerably beyond that.
> As I read step 14, it is just one step in testing along
the way. It doesn't
> seem to have any relevance to permanently disabling the
IE error box?
Yes, it's simply a method of testing.
> <input type="text" name="email" id="email"
width="600px" maxlength="50"
The <input> tag does not have a width attribute. Its
width is controlled
by the size attribute. In Dreamweaver, this is set by
entering a value
into the Char width field. For most web pages, the maximum
should be no
more than about 60.
> I would have thought that the bodystyle text would be
used for the form inputs,
> but it isn't, so where is it defined?
Create a CSS class and apply it to the text fields.
> 5. Form prettification
>
> Can you, for example, put a table inside the form, and
then put the name, etc,
> into different cells?
Yes.
Although these questions have arisen from working through my
book, most
of them are general HTML/CSS/web design issues that would be
more
appropriately addressed to the forum in general. I try to
give a high
level of support to my books, but I hope you understand that
my time
(and knowledge) are not unlimited.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/