On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:

>

>

> I also find that Web forms are often laid out badly. They can not

> count on a screen size so they go with the one-per-line model:

> Data Item 1: _____

> Data Item 2: _________________________

> Data Item 3: __________________________________________________

> Data Item 4: _____

> Data Item 5: __________

> even if it would be clearer to have more than one item on a line (such as

> with addresses). This often overflows off the bottom the screen. My

> desktop app does not have this problem.

> ------

Really it is the content within the <div> tags. Adding "space" to have the

labels line up in an orderly row is not done any more.

> I saw one page that I greatly regret not having saved the URL for.

> It was made very "pretty". As a result, each data item (one per line) took

> about triple the vertical space it needed. Worse, there were no cues as to

> how long the input could be. I filled in a reference of about 35-40

> characters and when I submitted the form, only then was I told that input

> was limited to 12 characters.

> ----------------

>

The display doesn't maintain the rules. The first submit click may render

them because you failed to know it all ahead of time < sarcasm >.

the rules are either javascript, css, or a combination of the two.

--

Stephen Russell

Sr. Analyst

Ring Container Technology

Oakland TN

901.246-0159 cell

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