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How to mark a field as recommended?
When I have a required field in a form, there is several ways to indicate to the user that this field is required. In addition, we can add client validation on that field, to force the user to fill ...
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Using country flags with currencies?
We are considering incorporating national flags into a currency selector, alongside ISO currency codes, like this:
We are well aware we should not use flags for selecting languages because there ...
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How to mark required (and optional) fields in a form where some fields are NOT editable?
I have a form showing properties of an entity in a web app: some of the fields in the form are read-only and some are editable. Within the editable fields, some are required to be filled with a value ...
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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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Common pattern for “multiple fields, at least one required”
Clearly the asterisk is a popular web standard for identifying unconditionally required fields.
But what if any one field out of several is required? For example, there are separate fields for home ...
