learning about web forms

[bantock101]

I am just switching over from a lot of quark experience in print layout to beginning web layout in quark. I own dreamweaver, but since quark is seemingly so familiar to me, I prefer to do my layouts in quark and then make changes as necessary in dreamweaver. However, I am having trouble getting the hang of this. I can't seem to manage to figure out simpe web tools, such as adding a scroll bar to a text box, and, I can't seem to find any decent information on line to help me get through this. Can anyone suggest reading material, something that has an indepth look at how all of the web tools work in quark? I want to get past the frustration stage and start being productive. Thank you for any advice.

 

[jimoblak]

Scroll bars appear automatically if your textarea form field contains more text than can display at once in the textarea.

Are you seeking an iframe or CSS option for a scrolling text box?

 

[bantock101]

Thank you for your response. I have not been able to even discover which type of text window will automatically respond in this way. This is my fundamental problem. I have tried using some of the forms and pasting my text in. I don't understand how they operate or how all of text gets published. CSS is another matter. I'm hoping to get enlightened today. I went to the bookstore and they only had one quark book which did not cover any web portions of the program, so I am reading Dreamweaver books just to get acquainted better with the terminology.

 

[IMacQuarker]

Hi bantock101
I am not sure if you can do the scrolling text box in Quark or not but here is some help with html you can copy and paste to Dreamweaver. It shows how to do a scrolling text box.

http://www.eobcards.com/tutorial3.htm

Hope this helps
IMacQuarker

 

[Foamcow]

You would be better off using Dreamweaver for creating web pages than using Quark.

Better still, use Dreamweaver to learn what's happening 'under the hood'.

Regarding scrollbars. Some browsers will add them automatically when the content 'overflows'. Others will add them regardless of the amount of content.

Using CSS it is possible to turn them off completely and hide any overflow.


Forms consist of form elements. The form element itself will have a 'method' and an 'action' attribute.
The action determines the URL of 'something' that handles the form data.
The method determines how that data is sent - either via POST or GET. POST sends the data invisibly whereas GET appends it to the URL (so it is visible).

A form contains form elements, namely: input, select and textarea tags.

Input tags can have a number of types:
text, password, file, hidden, checkbox, radio, submit and reset

Strictly speaking each form element should have an accompanying label element and a name attribute. It should also have an <input type="submit"> element to allow the user to submit the form.

When the form is submitted the data is sent to the action url via the method chosen. The data consists of hash pairs of each named element with the data it contains.


As I said, you'd be best served using Dreamweaver to create webpages.

You may also like to visit Forum253 and Forum215 for more web orientated discussion.

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