Styling form elements is a frustrating and, often, futile effort.
Roger Johansson has a nice article with explanations [1]
I think sticking to the submit buttons is the best way to go.
Prabhath
http://nidahas.com
[1]
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/styling_even_more_form_controls/
-Original Message-
From: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
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Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 4:35 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links
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From: Prabhath Sirisena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
I'm going to chime in with why do you want to do this? too, I'm afraid.
Users don't expect a text link to submit a form, so doing this makes
your form less usable, more confusing, IMHO.
Have You Validated Your Code?
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From: John Horner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 4:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links
I'm going to chime in with why do you want to do this? too,
I'm afraid.
Users don't expect
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
Making all the Page Numbers form buttons doesn't really look good, if you
know what I mean. Would be great to get around it.
Even if you assign a specific class to those submit buttons?
input.submit { font-size: 0.76em; color: #00f; background:
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From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 5:19 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
Making all the Page Numbers form buttons doesn't
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
BUT: users are accustomed to have text-links to allow them to jump in
between search result pages (e.g. Google). So those links I would like to
keep as text. The problem is, that when the users go to another page the
selection they made on the current
Hi Andreas,
This isn't really the accessible solution you're looking for, but if
you want to avoid submitting a form but retain information between
pages, you could try to set a cookie.
Cheers,
Blair
On 01/06/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
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Here's one I have been
-Original Message-
From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 5:32 PM
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Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
BUT: users are accustomed to have text-links
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From: discusster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 5:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links
Hi Andreas,
This isn't really the accessible solution you're looking for, but if
you want to avoid
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 17:55 +1000, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
wrote:
The problem is I cannot get the info into the cookie without submitting a
form first. :)
I'll confess to never having actually used AJAX, but would it be
possible to make the page work such that standard selection would
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Have a look at this page:
http://www.seek.com.au/jobsearch/index.ascx?DateRange=31catlo
cation=1002st
ateselected=truecatindustry=1200
So the user searches for jobs. They find a range of jobs that match their
search criteria. In fact they found 10 pages of
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From: Patrick Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 7:19 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Have a look at this page:
http://www.seek.com.au/jobsearch
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