CSS - Disable 3d Look Of Form Fields?

Hi,

I'm creating a form and for some reason I can't get rid of the space between each line of the fields.

I've tried making the margin and padding 0 but no joy. Is it me or just browser bugs?

Help appreciated PHP Addict

Code:

<div style="width: 350px; float: right;">
<div style="width: 100px; text-align: right; float: left; background: yellow;">
<label for="">field Name:</label>
</div>
<div style="width: 100px; float: left; background: orange;">
<input name="Address1" type="text" id="Ad1" value="$Address1" size="15" maxlength="25">
</div>
<div style="width: 120px; float: right; background: blue;">
Error Message
</div>
<br />
<div style="width: 100px; text-align: right; float: left; clear: left; background: yellow;">
<label for="">field Name:</label>
</div>
<div style="width: 100px; float: left; background: orange;">
<input name="Address1" type="text" id="Ad1" value="$Address1" size="15" maxlength="25">
</div>
<div style="width: 120px; float: right; background: blue;">
Error Message
</div>
<br />
<div style="width: 100px; text-align: right; float: left; clear: left; background: yellow;">
<label for="">field Name:</label>
</div>
<div style="width: 100px; float: left; background: orange;">
<input name="Address1" type="text" id="Ad1" value="$Address1" size="15" maxlength="25">
</div>
<div style="width: 120px; float: right; background: blue;">
Error Message
</div>
</div>

to start: this is my first post and i hope this forum is as helpful as the others i am a member of..

i have a basic text game i am working on and code is already layed out for me.. but i am looking to give the game my own style.. i have created the look i want in photoshop and sliced and sent over to dreamweaver but i am a noob and dont know how to get the things functioning.. at all

pretty much everything can be set as the background except for the form but i want the blue gradient in input fields and images as buttons. i would like to have big font size in boxes and also have white letters.. also i want the whole centered x and y when viewer goes to page

like i said: im a noob and just getting back into the web dev stuff and am pretty rusty so if anyone can help me out i will be SOOOOOO thankful!!!

here is the link to the jpg.. let me know if you need the psd but i have 2 or 3 dif fonts in it that are not common fonts

Code:

http://i951.photobucket.com/albums/ad353/zac_exuro/Untitled-1-2.jpg

I'm stumped. Cannot find a solution here. Is it possible to vertically align a form field inside a DIV in IE6? It works fine everywhere else. (Big shock...)

Thank you for any help you can give. I've resolved to using tables temporarily. Ughhh.

Here's a snippet of the CSS:

Code:

body { background-color: #e2e4d7; background-image: url("../images/fade_top.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-x; margin: 0; padding: 0 }
#wrapper  { margin: 12px auto; width: 796px }
#top    { background-image: url("../images/main_top.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 796px; height: 8px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: bottom }
#main { background-image: url("../images/main_back.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-y; width: 796px; overflow: hidden }
#header { background-image: url("../images/header_back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 796px; height: 262px }
#nav { margin-right: 8px; margin-left: 8px; width: 780px; height: 60px }
#nav ul { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 780px }
#nav li { float: left }
#nav li a { display: block; padding-top: 60px; height: 0; overflow: hidden }
...
#banner { margin-right: 8px; margin-left: 8px; width: 780px; height: 202px; overflow: hidden }
#bannerLeft   { background-image: url("../images/banner_logo.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; width: 316px; height: 202px; float: left }
#searchBox   { line-height: 53px; text-align: center; position: absolute; top: 149px; width: 316px; height: 53px }
#searchField     { margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 196px; vertical-align: middle }
#searchButton   { margin: 0 0 0 6px; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle }
#bannerRight { background-image: url("../images/banner_photo.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 464px; height: 202px; float: right }
...

And here's a snippet of the HTML:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<title></title>
		<link href="css/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
	</head>

	<body>
		<div id="wrapper">
			<div id="top"></div>
			<div id="main">
				<div id="header">
					<div id="nav">
						<ul>
						...
						</ul>					</div>
					<div id="banner">
						<div id="bannerLeft">
							<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8">
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8">
<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="http://www.whmca.com">
<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="http://www.whmca.com">
<div id="searchBox">
	<input id="searchField" type="text" name="q"><input id="searchButton" name="btnG" type="image" src="images/search_bt.gif" alt="Search" height="14" width="42">
</div>
</form>						</div>
						<div id="bannerRight"></div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div id="body">
				...
				</div>
			</div>
			<div id="bottom"></div>
			<div id="copyright">
			...
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>

</html>

I have a form with several input and option fields, can I apply a separate background color to an individual input field possibly by name or id ?

Code:

#form1 
 INPUT, OPTION {

	background-color: #999999;
	
}

is this possible with CSS?
So when the carat is focused on a form field the field is highlighed maybe by changing the border color... or background color.

very much like the macromedia support site.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/

I have a feeling though... it might involve a bit of javascript?

Cheers in advance
Rob

Is it possible to differentiate between various types of input field, e.g. assign a width to text inputs but leave buttons to find their own width based on content.

I know I can do this by assigning certain elements a class but I'd prefer not to have to do this.

Thanks

Greetings!
Maybe it's a newbie question, but I can't find out why form fields don't get vertically centered when rule height: 4em; line-height: 4em; is applied on them, they are inline elements, aren't they?
In FF applied correctly, not so in IE. Please take a look at: http://147.32.113.143/biotest/Sourc..._LookUpTerm.php

Is it possible to expand a table with DIV's using CSS hidden/visible?
If I select an option from a select field in one row, to have a hidden select field appear in the row directly below, moving the contents directly below down a row? Expanding the table when a hidden row becomes visible. Or should I just use DIV's and forget about using the table format?

Hi,

I am having trouble clearing labels and fields.

I have set up my labels to float left and my fields to float left.

When i have more than one set of label and field, they do not align underneath each other.

Please could someone suggest the best way to clear the label and field so the next row will display correctly?

Thanks

Is there a simple way of applying a CSS style to only the form fields that are empty?

I searched online and found this but doesn't seem to work.

Code:

input[value=""] {
     background-color: #FFFF66;
}

any other ideas?

Hello

I work with a lot of online forms, long, multi-page forms like applications and housing forms. We currently style all form fields to use monospaced fonts. Our biggest reason in the past for doing that was for consistency between browsers. Netscape 4.x was the biggest culprit. Our sites now check and kick out 4.x browsers. Some in our group want to stay with monospaced fonts, and some want to switch to allowing proportional fonts.

Those in our group who are for monospace say:
- It helps to separate (visually) what is the label and what is the question.
- They think it looks bad when the question and the answer use the same exact style.
- With monspace the size attribute and the maxlength attribute are in sync. They hate it when a text field scrolls just because you type in some upper-case "M" characters.
- If you, for instance, use too many lowercase "l"s then your text ends halfway through the field.

Those in our group who are for proportional say:
- In cross-browser testing the differences in spacing (in page layout) for text, textarea, and select fields is minimal.
- The form fields look better.
- If you look around online most forms now use proportional fonts; it's accepted.

Does anyone here have opinions about monospace vs. proportional fonts in long online forms? I happen to fall into the proportional group, myself, but, as you can see, the argument, "It looks better." is not very technically compelling.

Thanks for your opinions.

Hi,

Please see
http://lbclibrary.org/addtoinquiry.php
(scroll down a bit to see the form)

What I want to do is, when the user selects "I am a member of ..." or "I want to become a member of..."

the form fields in the OTHER cell should become readonly (i.e. should not allow input).

Is it possible to make ALL the form elements in one <td> cell as readonly? Further, is it possible to change their background colors to say light grey?

Then, when you select another radio option, that cell becomes writable and the other cell becomes readonly.

Thanks a lot!

Can you use a stylesheet to effectively disable the link, so that you
can't click on it; that it will appear simply as text?

Thanks

Hi there,

In my stylesheet I've written a style for the table tag:

Code:

table {
	width: 500px;
	margin: auto;
	text-align: left;
	border: 1px solid #999999;
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Bitstream Vera Sans", verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	line-height: 140%;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 15px;
	font-size: 14px;
	padding-left: 10px;
}

All the main tables on my site need to be this exact style. I now need to create a table which shouldn't use the table style above. I could have just pasted the stylesheet info directly to the page (and delete the css link at the top of the page), and then delete the table info, but can't do this because the stylesheet link location is dynamic (my new site design will alternate a stylesheet every 24 hours).

Anyone know how I can tell the css to not apply the style to an element?

Thanks,


saj