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Best option for data grid records that each can have different multiple choices
Below is a mock up of the screen, and I'm not sure of the best way to do the Delay Reasons in this case.
Each service can have multiple delay reasons and each service can have different delay ...
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Combining email and phone inputs into a single text field
Let's say you want to combine both email and phone input into a single text field because you require either or, not both. What's the best way would you approach this? As far as making it clear ...
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Representing “undetermined” in a three-state checkbox
I'm developing a rule-based forms application where the user must explicitly choose a value for each data field, even boolean ones. For controls like combo boxes, this is not a problem, as they just ...
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Is it a good idea to put the word “or” between buttons on a screen
If I have a dialog to display to the user it has a data item displayed, and 2 seperate actions that can be done to the object. So, it's a resource and we want the user to choose which process they ...
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Appended and Prepended Checkbox: when can I use this?
A was taking a look at Twitter Bootstrap, and, looking at the Prepended and Appended checkboxes, just cant figure out where, why and when I can use it.
Can someone give me a good example?
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How do I add the ability to cancel editing without a button?
We currently have an interface pattern that consists of a list of rows; clicking on one row activates "edit mode", where the lables turn into text-boxes, afterwards you can either save or cancel.
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Alternatives to having an excessive number of radio buttons on a form?
I have a form which dynamically creates the user's choices as radio buttons. It functionally works, but it does not look that pretty.
It looks ugly, particularly if the number of radio buttons grows. ...
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Default input labels and text sizes
Looking to get community feedback on a few small related form questions:
For standard forms:
How long should a standard text box input be? These text boxes would be for first and last name?
Should ...
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Should I provide a default selection?
[this whole feature is a new one for us so we don't have real-world data]
I have a form that requires the user to select one of predefined items (equivalent to, say, shipping addresses). The user is ...
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Best alternative to slider controls for iPad users?
My team is currently planning a map-centric web app with several slider controls for filtering results. While there seem to be techniques emerging for coding sliders to respond to touch instead of ...
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Pros/Cons of customized/reproduced HTML elements
I have a very specific case where the <select/> elements in a browser interface are replaced with a custom HTML structure while styling is added via CSS and functionality is added via ...
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What's a clean way to implement two checkboxes that can be “ANDed” or “ORed”?
I have a pretty standard search form on a web site that will return records based on various criteria. Let's assume each record corresponds with a person. A person can have a dog, a car, neither, or ...
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Most User-Friendly Form Fields for Entering Date/Time?
What are the different ways to have fields in an application for date, time, or both? What are the pros and cons for each?
The most common seem to be a combination of 2–3 drop-downs, or some form ...
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Web - How to represent a numeric input that is limited to increments of some number
I have a requirement for a form that restricts a field value to fixed increments of 50 and I'm not sure what would be the most elegant way to represent that constraint in a meaningful fashion.
The ...
