January 22, 2004

Tricks for usable forms

Sitepoint has a decent article on Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms. These "tricks" include focusing on the form when the page loads (document.getElementById('formfieldName').focus();), styling labels with CSS and JavaScript, and preselecting text inside a textfield. They give examples of code to make these items work, and they seem pretty slick. I like the idea of using the "behavior layer" to make forms work better. The examples seem pretty well written, and well explained. Good stuff for any web-based form.
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Posted at 07:58 AM

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Anonymous

can this be use on any web page? where do I make the changes?

Posted by: Anonymous | March 1, 2004 12:34 PM

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