Input fields are several different controls such as textboxes, dropdown lists and radio buttons who reside in a (web) form.
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dynamic form design
I have a multistep form setup in my rails app.. In one of my steps the user can enter a friends name, birthday, gender, and the persons interests.
They can enter as many friends as they like (each ...
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Should department filter be located to the left or the right of the search text input in e-commerce sites?
I'm working on a new shopping site and i see a possible minor improvement.
We have a typical search form on top left, with dropdown for categories and input field.
I think maybe it's better if we ...
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Labels inside or outside text inputs? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
On forms, is inline placeholder text better than a label outside each field?
Are there any advantages / disadvantages in placing ones labels outside ones text inputs ...
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Should a form's style be left to the browser?
Instead of using CSS resets, I use Normalize.css, and I usually style an HTML form's containing elements such as input, label, textarea, etc. to the fullest extent. To make sure that the form's design ...
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Why do you have to enter your e-mail when commenting a blog post?
Why do you (usually) need to enter your e-mail adress when commenting a blog post? I guess it's for some kind of spam-protection but if the system doesn't need it - is it ok to skip that input field ...
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Showing/Hiding vs.Enable/Disabling form fields
I would like to know the benefits and drawback relative to form design of "dependent fields". For example, in my form I have a Marital Status field, and depending on it's value, I need to know the ...
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Enabling spell check in the UI
We are building an application which will contain spell checking features for areas where users will enter input.
We have already implemented the feature for our rich text editors, whereby spell ...
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Min. opt. and max. value of a small field
I've a three digit input field which has a predefined upper and a lower bound, all within a table. The field also has an optimal (requested) value. So there is a min. an opt. and a max.
What is a ...
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Is it “unsafe” to rely only on placeholders (input fields)? [duplicate]
I've noticed that in many sites, the text within input fields are always either label tags and span tags. Twitter's example:
(in this case, the labels seem to be inside the input field).
I never ...
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Displaying selections from a Dropdown Check List
First of all, I apologize for my Englsih and will try to be as clear as possible!
I'm currently having a problem with a Dropdown Check List.
I have, on the left of the search results, a Dropdown ...
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What is the best way to indicate that text in a text input field is editable?
Imagine an app like yelp. In this case, you select the amount of stars that you want to rate something. When you do, a pre-generated text is displayed in the text input field. You can either keep this ...
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About the creation and management of items
I need some guidance regarding the following design issue. In my application I need to create, maintain, delete and manage so called "Roles", they are just basically a name and a description pairs. I ...
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What is the best approach to disallow an empty search?
I want to disallow users from searching without a query string (at least one character). To achieve this, I tried to disable the search submit button when the search box is empty, and restoring the ...
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When appending items to a list, should the input fields be above or below the list?
We are building an application that allows a user to build a form.
The user can enter the name of the label, pick the type of the input field and indicate whether or not it should be mandatory. The ...
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Layout of information on registration page
I am making the registration page for a website. How should the different components be laid out relative to each other? For example should the heading be on level or above the text input field?
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what is the ideal order of fields to have in a contact form?
I'm working on a contact form and was wondering on the order of fields.
if I should start with the subject first and then name, email and message field or name, email subject and message field.
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Enter your email below and we will contact you
My client wants a page in which the following text appears:
"Enter your email below and We will contact you"
It's then followed by a textfield (to write the email address) and a button to submit ...
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Allowing user to input a range value where end points have special meaning
I need to allow the user to input a setting that controls the showing of a GUI feature after performing a number of steps.
The setting would control the number of steps in the application that should ...
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Editing an array of numbers which length is variable
For the needs of a line drawing program, I need to edit an array of integers. The only constraint on the array is its length, which has to be even, and greater or equal to two. The solution I have for ...
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How to request that two out of three fields need to be populated in a mobile search app
I am developing a new iOS app and I need to let the user commit a search where three fields are shown.
a group name (development, marketing etc.)
member name
project name
the search should be ...
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Incorporating a range-slider in a form: jQuery UI or degrade to <select>?
When incorporating an <input type="range"> slider into a form (ie, Best form element to indicate level of completeness of a task?), Firefox degrades not-so-gracefully to a text box.
Since we ...
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How can a form with tokenInput include qualifiers?
I have a form for modifying songs in which you can add/remove links to artists with a special text field having tokenInput capability for auto-completion. This field looks like this:
Of course, the ...
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iOS and UITableViewCell: best practices when requesting user input as a form
Firstly, I'd like to make a general question regarding table view cells' customization: are there any restrictions about the controls they can cointain, and/or its number? I read in iOS HIG iOS Human ...
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Required field validation error message – Next to field vs. in a Popup
In our application, we mark all the required fields with an asterisk and when user tries to perform an action without providing values for all the required fields, we display an error message next to ...
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Order of fields in contact forms
I'm looking for evidence to support changing order of fields in various contact forms.
The first is a general form with:
Enquiry details - textarea
Where did you hear about us? - textarea
...
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Inputting percentages - in decimal or whole number form?
I've come across a situation in a form where one group of people is expecting an input field for a percentage value to be whole numbers, whereas the other expects decimal values. Either way when the ...
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Where to place registration form and its contents in page horizontally?
In a registration form I'm having trouble guessing where I should put the text and input fields. Obviously the default is flush against the left side of the screen which looks terrible. I noticed ...
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Disappearing input field placeholder aesthetics for web apps
Background
Users may provide various categorized input entries (e.g., danger, warning, avoid, and relax), such as those in the following image (e.g., "Relax #1", "Avoid #1", etc.):
Problem
When ...
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Checkbox vs. menu
I am building a calculator where the user must choose if has has a hybrid car or not.
I was wondering which is better a checkbox - where you check if you have one.
or a menu with yes/no ...
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How should you represent a short Unordered list
I have a list of exactly 2 steps a user can follow either the first or the second can be completed first, both have to be completed for the next action to occur.
I have large circular icons which ...
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Remove or keep Clear control in mandatory input-field? (iPhone)
I've had a little discussion with one of my co-workers regarding how to handle the Clear all -button in a mandatory input-field on the iPhone. The field holds the account email address and is present ...
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Coming soon pages - best practices?
I think the design of these pages vary greatly, and there is no set standard on what's usually on these pages. However, one thing that has been common with these pages in the past is that people tend ...
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How to enter separate amounts then give feedback if the total meets a given amount?
case:
During an ordering process, the user should be able to divide a given amount of money into a '1 to infinite' number of pots. So the sum of everything should be exactly the same when the step is ...
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Padding locked in Axure [closed]
I'm just starting with Axure and have created a prototype of my first form element. I created it as a dynamic panel to simulate an input hint. State 1 has a text field with gray text giving the hint. ...
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What solutions are there for a date picker on a responsive website? [closed]
We're working on a website that is responsive.
So my question is: What about datepickers. If we choose normal datepickers
Jquery Mobile date pickers don't look good on the full blow template.
And ...
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What is the best format to ask users to submit financial information [closed]
I'm looking for an example of a simplified way of asking users to submit financial information in an online form for the following 4 categories e.g. income, commitments, assets and liabilities. Any ...
