Flash Forms / Form Appearance
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To finish off our Flash form intro section what I have done here is added a couple of additional features in terms of appearance of Flash forms. We're going to be looking at Flash form skins and we're also going to look at how do I add CSS to a Flash form and it is a bit pickier then basic HTML so you will want to play around with it a little bit, but I did add some here for you. Now the background of these form fields I created that color using a background color in CSS, I have also added a skin to this form, so this is the exact same form as Suma Tours, we just added a skin and a background color to our form elements. So you can compare those two pages at your leisure. Let's look into the code and see how that was done. Well, the skin you apply to the entire form. So this is one of the skin options. There are basically blue, orange, green, and silver and what this does is add that color scheme to the border. Now I used orange because it's a little bit easier for you to see. It does not necessarily match our SUMA website, so just ignore that portion of it. Also I added some style information inside the form element itself because this uses a pound sign for the color, in ColdFusion you need to use two of these. That's why I chose this particular style to use, to remind you of that. But you can see the style looks just like an in line style you would add to an HTML page and those do get put into your actual form field elements. So let's preview this in the browser. You should see some orange on our form. As you can see it gets this little orange border. When I highlight it turns a little bit orange on the border of the tabs and this turns orange as well. The background color is creating the blue on these form fields just to highlight them and notice when I select them it does add that skin color surrounding your actual form field. So adding the blue just made it a little bit easier for you to see that that same skin that's added here becomes a border for some of your form elements. So skins and CSS are available for flash forms. The CSS portion is a little bit pickier then HTML forms so you may want to research what can and can not be used or just try it in your own forms and you can play around with it from there. So that is adding or changing form appearance using skins and CSS for your Flash forms.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | ColdFusion MX 7 Advanced |
| Author: | Candyce Mairs |
| SKU: | 33828 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-34-8 |
| Release Date: | 2007-11-30 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 89 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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