I'm a beginner in web dev but I'm really good on the software end. I have some HTML to display text and a YoutTube Video on a webpage. But before this, the user must be prompted to input a value in a text box.
What I wanted is for the user to see a box with a submit button. The box will only accept one of 7000 unique entries. Once the user inputs one of the 7000 entires, only then the HTML/YouTube Video must be displayed. Otherwise the page can display a message saying: Retry, entry not recognized.
The webpage is running Wordpress with Motopress. Is there anyway I can do this with Custom fields to store the values or whichever way is easy and quick?
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Previously, I have seen web forms that are multiple pages long, but on each page, if the inputted information is invalid, it will cause an error and make the user fix their input.
However, I can't seem to find anything to show me how to do this. My form is 2 pages, with a Continue button at the bottom of the first and a Submit button at the bottom of the second. However, all possible errors generated will be on the first page, so I want it to show them if the user hits Continue when he has inputted errors.
Right now, the form is only processed after the user hits Submit and all the data is posted to the backend, which means it then has to go back to the first page to show the errors.
You could try to check the information every time the user continues to the next input control, and tell him that there's something wrong if he enters any nonsense.
How to achieve this depends on how your form looks:
Does it just contain and something like that or radio buttons and other "special elements"?
For you could check at the FocusLost event, but I don't exactly remember its syntax.
I am creating a page and the page has an editable data grid (I'm actually using jqgrid). The user can add, delete, and edit the rows of the grid. There are also some other form fields on this page such as text boxes and drop downs, but they are not part of the grid.
From a usability perspective which of the options do you think is best and why?
User manages the grid separately from the rest of the page. This means that there is a save button on the grid. So the user can save a grid row to the db without clicking the submit button. When the submit button gets clicked, the non-grid form fields get sent to the server.
user manages grid and other fields dependent upon each other. This is like an "Everything or nothing scenario." When you click the submit button, all of the form fields get submitted an saved the db along with the grid fields. If there is a validation error, nothing gets saved.
If there is a better way to handle this type of situation that I did not list, please let me know.
What I was thinking when I was in a similar situation, is how important it's that the user fills the other form fields. If they are optional and the grid is more important I would have the submit button in the grid but if I want the user to fill all the fields, the button should be at the end. In the case where the button saves the whole form, you can have a type of warning if the user skips some fields or you can have a deactivated button.
The second thing I thought was the height of the page. If the button hides 'above the fold' there is a high posibility that some users won't see it and the data won't be saved. So in that case, maybe you should have it in the grid. I would check analytics about screen resolutions.
I am building a facebook app ....
Lets say you fill up the form after clicking like button. You get a thank you page. Now go back using browser back button. Most of the input data values still remains. That is a problem. How to make sure that when user goes back the values not there?
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I am a beginner at Microsoft Access trying to creating a database and one of the fields is a memo field. I would like to request user input for that field; However, the standard inputbox has a single line for the user to enter data, and although you can use that to add large amounts of text, it is not pleasing.
I want an inputbox that accepts memos so as the user inputs a paragraph of text, he can see the entire paragraph when he submits.
How would I do it using an inputbox and not a form? Is this possible?
I am guessing you are entering the data directly into the table. If so you can simply hover over a line between two rows until you get the double arrows and click and drag. When closing the table it will ask you if you want to save your changes. if you say yes then every time after that it will appear the same when when opened. This will give you more viewing area per field. However, I do agree with HansUp, this is best controlled via a form. Here is a snapshot of a table with more room per row.
The same can be done with query results.
We have a site with a credit card entry form.
The user will enter their information and click submit. This then goes to a thank you page.
On a ThinkPad laptop running IE 8: If the user clicks the back button (from the thank you page) then it takes them back to the credit card entry. However, the fields for Name on card, card number and the first line of the address are not there. (ignore for a moment that the page shouldn't be cached..) I have other machines running IE 8 and 9 that do not exhibit this behavior.
I don't mean that they are empty. I mean the input fields are flat not there. The expiration date, city, state and zip input boxes are there. Just not those listed above.
Any ideas on what could possibly do this? The fields themselves are always visible and there is absolutely zero code to hide them.
My client says that it happens on other forms in their site as well. The main site is a joomla application that uses an iFrame to show the forms from my app.
I have no idea on where to even start with this one.
Yes, we need a link to troubleshoot. All I can say is likely to be some conflicting css hiding it. Use the element inspector and take a look at all the properties on the fields.