First post here but i've been struggling with something for a while. I'm creating a form in Contact Form 7, and tweaking the Mail reply using the mail tags. I'm using several sections of checkbox items, but when they're relayed back via the email, the checked box text displays as follows:
red, green, yellow, blue etc
However, i'd like them to display as:
red
green
yello
blue
The checkboxes I want to include on my form are longer sentences so they just display as a big block of sentences rather than a list when sent in an email to the form host/person filling in the form.
I can't find a way to get into the mail tag [checkbox] to style that item in particular, despite being able to style the email generated in general (bold text, coloured text etc). I've tried several (probably quite amateur) things, but nothing is working.
This page on my site has an example of what i'm talking about: http://www.adgreen-apa.net/social-contact/send-us-your-thoughts
Any help appreciated!
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I am putting together a simple form for a friend and they want when a button is selected to change from amber, too green.
I have attached PDF to give an idea of what I am looking for. Much like a data validation on excel, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do it.
Default: Amber
when clicked: Green
It is certainly possible with PDFs to do that since the appearance of a form field is defined by arbitrary drawing instructions.
However, whether you can do that with a PDF editor wholely depends on the capabilities of the PDF editor.
I am creating an Arabic email withe right to left text alignment,
the html part is fine but I need to make a subject line to the mailer withe
part of the text in left to right English.
the problem is the subject line will not render any css or html code and,
will be outputted in plaint text.
so in some email agents the English text is on the right and on some agents it is on the
left side of the text.
my question is how can I create a subject line that include Arabic and English in one line
This probably isn't what you want to hear but I don't think this can be done. Like you said, the subject line is plain text and does not support any form of formatting (you can't make it bold or italic either for example).
The position of the subject is dependent on the email client and in most cases probably also the localization of the operating system. Formatting of the subject can basically only be done by modifying the settings of an e-mail client, which cannot be done by an e-mail itself.
I'm in the process of redesigning a website for a friend from school. Along the way I've encountered a weird bug in Google Chrome: I've styled the contact form (very basic, an input each for name and email address and a textarea for comments) using a CSS3 gradient background.
Everything works fine – until you click inside a field to enter data, whereupon the name input and textarea take on the background colour of their parent form element. The email input, meanwhile, retains the gradient both when focussed and when not (as desired).
Please visit http://www.chrisphilpot.co.uk/lucycooper2012/ to see what I am getting at. As I say, it seems to look fine in Firefox and IE9 picks up on the flat background #FFF which will do for the time being!
Do you have any bright ideas to fix this? I've relinked the page to the full, uncompressed CSS so feel free to have a rummage. The main styles for the form are in: http://www.chrisphilpot.co.uk/lucycooper2012/css/form.css
Thank you for your help and time!
Working on a bunch of forms at the moment and I'm finding that I want to be able to split a form into sections with some text in between. Is there a Zend_Form_Element that simply allows me to place some text mixed in with my form (not as a label or description linked to an individual input)?
Thanks!
I think there's not.
Although, you can do one of the following things:
If the text inbetween is more like a title, you can group them in display groups.
If you want to put a lot of text then you'll have to write your own custom form element.
If you choose the second option beware of your form decorations. If you want the text to be from side to side of the page (ie. without the labels space to the left and not aligned to the rest of the input forms) you'll probably have to disable default decorators and set new ones.
This question was originally posted by esilver but he seemed to answer his own question, which then didn't make any sense. In his post he mentioned 'combing' of which I have found no reference to.
Here is what his question is and my slight amendment is at the bottom:
esilver's question:
"I'm trying to build a web app to programmatically fill out a PDF form. I am going to configure my form first in Adobe Acrobat, then write a Java app with iText to fill out all the form fields via user input from the web. The base form I need to fill out comes from the US government. They created form fields with extremely large kerning (character spacing) values I need to change. However, there appears to be no way to modify this value in the Acrobat UI.
Does anyone know how to manipulate character spacing on form fields in Acrobat 8.0 for Windows? I could try to use iText to programmatically manipulate the kerning of the original document, but this would be much more tedious.
Thanks!"
His answer:
"I believe I figured this out: kerning is called "combing" in acrobat, and each of the form fields have been "combed". The strange thing is this option isn't checked when I view the properties of the form field, but "combing" is the behaviour I was attempting to replicate."
My amendement:
I am using Acrobat Pro 9 to generate this form. Now my question is: Does anyone know how to manipulate character spacing on form fields in Acrobat Pro 9 for Windows?
It sounds like you're referring to comb fields, not kerning. Kerning is adjusting the spacing between characters so that letters like AV can be pushed closer together and still look good.
A comb field is a field where each letter has a specific visible box that it fits into. I believe it's named a comb field because the spacing resembles the teeth of a comb. Comb fields are common on government forms and are used to encourage you to print your answer.
Comb fields don't make a lot of sense for an electronic form, but sometimes the electronc form has to exactly match the print form for legal reasons.
Try loading the form in LiveCycle Designer, which comes with Acrobat. If it's an XFA form (vs an AcroForms form), then you'll be able to edit the kerning in Designer.