I have two form elements that don’t want to behave. All the elements are in a table. The submit button wants to show past the bottom of the page even though the table cell ends far above this. Also the error text wants to stay at the top of the form cell rather then the bottom of the cell. I’ve checked and rechecked and can’t seem to fix this. These two problems are only with firefox mac. Does any one have a fix for this? thanks in adcance! http://www.shybuckstudios.com/form.php
I am using FF3, thinking if I upgraded things would work fine. But I am glad to hear the form looks fine on your mac.
I used the sound FX action that is a Freeway action for Freeway Pro 5. make sense?
Melanie, this is the same problem as you have had before…
From what I can see and remember the problem is with the Submit
image, as you are using an image when you add the easiForm Elements
action to it the action will set a hidden variable as a flag to
include the form processing script, this hidden value is not being set
so from this I would say you have not created the submit side as it
should be.
The last time this happened I explained you need to create an image
with the ‘Send it’ text, import it into a graphic item and size it,
place it where you want it then add an instance of the easiForm
Elements action… can you explain how you have created the ‘Send it’
button please?
On Jul 8, 2008, at 10:38 AM, DeltaDave wrote:
Just to let you know I had a look at this on another Mac running FF
2.0.0.15 and the form doesn’t seem to work at all there - looks fine
though!
What did you use to create you form handler form.php? Easiform with
captcha?
I found this line
Is your form.php not expecting a ‘Submit’ button? (input
type=“submit”)
If you use an input type=image (what you get when you select an image
and check the Submit button in the Inspector), the actual input that
your form receives is not just the value of the button, but also the
x and y coordinates on that image where your visitor clicked.
Any form handler that is looking for
$_POST['sendit']
…will never see that variable. What will be sent, in fact, is this:
$_POST['sendit.x']
$_POST['sendit.y']
In PHP, you cannot have a period (full stop) in a variable name, so
the PHP interpreter converts the dot to an underscore. Your form
handler must look for either sendit_x or sendit_y as a trigger
for accepting input, or alternatively, you can set a hidden variable
called something else, and look for that input as a reliable
indicator that the form has been sent.
Walter
On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:00 AM, Mike B wrote:
From what I can see and remember the problem is with the Submit
image, as you are using an image when you add the easiForm Elements
action to it the action will set a hidden variable as a flag to
include the form processing script, this hidden value is not being set
so from this I would say you have not created the submit side as it
should be.
My form elements are fine…just was not working correctly in Firefox on my machine. But I thank you all for your time and efforts in helping me. To answer your question Dave, I used easiform.
What Mike and Walt most likely looked at the following day was one of the many uploads of my site with various tries at fixing the firefox issue. So I apologize if you saw my work in progress.
I never did find the problem but others at the time viewed it correctly.
One itch I don’t care for is the error dialog font size and the captchaM text size.I understand a browser will show the default font size but I’d love to over ride this somehow. thanks again
What Mike and Walt most likely looked at the following day was one
of the many uploads of my site with various tries at fixing the
firefox issue. So I apologize if you saw my work in progress.
I never did find the problem but others at the time viewed it
correctly.
The hidden value that is set using the easiForm action is not being
set (or wasn’t on the page I seen), this makes me think you have not
set up the submit image as it needs to be set up but I could be wrong,
if you send me the page in the FW file (no resources just the FW file)
I will look at it.
One itch I don’t care for is the error dialog font size and the
captchaM text size.I understand a browser will show the default font
size but I’d love to over ride this somehow. thanks again
Create a style for how you want the text to be with the ‘Styles’
window, then select the cell the action is applied to and add a style.
1# Remove the ‘p’ tag from the styles you use for the cells where you
want the text to be styled and the style will then work as you want,
if I remember this is something that was covered before for this site
form problems.
2# Remove the PHP code you have in the ‘Before HTML’ of the form page,
you do not need that code when using easiForm actions, again something
that was covered before.
3# The hidden value is being set in the example you sent me, you seem
to have stripped the form page down so I can only guess the problem
might be caused with something you have removed from the page as the
form works where I have it here: http://www.easibase.com/actions/form.php
If you want top send a copy of the form and thanks pages again ’ but
not stripped down ', don’t send the resources as I don’t need them, FW
will use a low quality version for what I need to see although you
need to leave the pages intact as you have them… i.e. unaltered.
OK Ill’ send it over…no I don’t remember anything about php
code or the p tag.
yip these issues where pointed out for the form a couple of months
back… but anyway…
What I sent to you has the background image removed and the roll overs
I don’t think there would be anything there to stop the hidden feld
and value being ‘when a submit image is used with the action’, this
is being set in the version of your form I uploaded while it wasn’t in
the one you posted as an example, so best to take a look as the form
in it’s full structure.
OK, I have just uploaded the form from the second FW file you sent,
the form seems to work fine so I can only think that the example you
sent through didn’t have the easiForm Elements action applied to the
submit button and that is why it didn’t work in FF.
When the easiForm Element action is applied to an image it will
automatically convert that image to a submit button but it will also
set a hidden field so that the easiForm scripts know the submit image
has been clicked, when an image is used some browsers pass the clicked
image spot coords on and do not pass the value of the submit image
name on, so that the hidden field corrects this, this is why I would
guess the easiForm Element action wasn’t applied.
No hidden field value is set when an ordinary submit button is used
and the easiForm elements action applied to that as the value of
submit is passed on in that case.
