On 19 April 2011 15:47, Tim Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > Does form markup OR plugging LWs book have anything to do with CSS?
Colossal amounts. Come back to us when you've built a form purely out of CSS and no markup. Keith, The "HTML5 boilerplate" [1] collects some excellent forms CSS (very helpfully commented to explain their purpose, too) together in its base stylesheet [2]. A few extra tips off the top of my head: • Don't get too ambitious with <legend> styling: the element has inherent layout properties that you can't completely override with CSS. • Make sure you have highly visible :focus styles for inputs. I (and many other users) find it much easier to use the keyboard for navigating forms, and an indicator of the focussed element is paramount. • Certain advanced input types rely on a 'ghost DOM' for which only the user agent (and proprietary CSS properties, in some cases) can control the rendering. Ambitious design ideas regarding esoteric fields often flounder. [1] http://html5boilerplate.com/ [2] https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/css/style.css Regards, Barney Carroll [email protected] 07594 506 381 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
