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TOPIC: New to RSforms

New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1237

Hi,

I am completely new to RSforms and everything related to building a website. I am getting the hang of creating forms and can easily set up new fields etc. I have a lot of different fields in my forms and would like to break it into segments with a heading for each segment. For example, have a heading \"Personal Information:\" and then a series of questions relating to age, date of birth etc.

How do I do that? As I said, I am totally new to all of this so something as simple as adding new code probably requires some instructions.

My second question is how can I change the size of the boxes where people enter information? The standard box size is fine for adding a few words or a date but some of my questions require people to enter several sentences or more and I would like to have quite a large box that would extend to the width of my screen and be able to show several lines of text at the same time. How can I do that for specific fields in my form?

Thanks
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Re:New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1238

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Hi Andrew,

in order to add a heading, just add a new field, and select as type \"free text\", then in the field title type
<h2>Personal Information:</h2>

In order to change the size of boxes please do this:

When you edit a field, you have the additional attributes field. Type there:
style=width:200px;
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Re:New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1241

Wow, thanks,

I must say, as a complete retard when it comes to doing websites, so far RSforms has been very easy to use and you have been most helpful in your support.

I have 2 more questions relating to your response above.

1) I was able to add the free text heading, how do I make that text smaller? At the moment its very big
2) I was also able to make the box that you enter text wider, how do I make it higher as well so that you can see several lines of text at the same time?

Thanks
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Re:New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1242

Wow, thanks,

I must say, as a complete retard when it comes to doing websites, so far RSforms has been very easy to use and you have been most helpful in your support.

I have 2 more questions relating to your response above.

1) I was able to add the free text heading, how do I make that text smaller? At the moment its very big
2) I was also able to make the box that you enter text wider, how do I make it higher as well so that you can see several lines of text at the same time?

Thanks
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Re:New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1243

OK,

I worked out how to change the size of the heading. How do I change the colour?

Also, at the moment my free text headings stick to the left, over the field title. How do I make them extend out over the boxes where people input information?

Thanks
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Re:New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1255

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Hi Andrew,

please try changing the default field style code of the freetext
<tr>
	<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\">{fieldtitle}{validationsign}</td>
	<td valign=\"top\">{field}</td>
	<td valign=\"top\">{fielddesc}</td>
</tr>

to
<tr>
	<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" colspan=\"3\">{fieldtitle}{validationsign}{field}</td>
</tr>
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Re:New to RSforms 17 years 5 months ago #1273

Hi, to make your text box wider and higher just select the Field Type as Textarea and type the following in Additional Attributes:-

cols=\"40\" rows=\"4\"

Then Save and you should have a textarea 40 columns wide and 4 rows high. Hope this helps.
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