Formatting the contact form [solved]

[herbshirt]

Could a css guru tell me how to format the contact form here: http://www.simonportus.com.au/index.php ... mon-portus

I've been sifting through the supplied css and can format almost everything except the actual body of the form which I'd like to make a black bg. I would also like to format the error messages so they are no longer red. Is it possible to format the Submit button?

Thankyou.

[Zappa]

you have some style hard coded into your template...

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.contactform fieldset {padding: 1em; background-color: #eee;}

change the #eee to #000 and it will go black.

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.contactform div.required {color: #f00;}

change this to whatever colour you need too #fff (you need to know your colours for this)

and for the submit button i believe the code you need is something along the lines of

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div.submit {background: #<colourhere>; padding: 2px 5px; margin: 0;}

Hope this helps 

[herbshirt]

Thanks Zappa.

Well I thought I'd looked everywhere, I found a field with css in the form itself. Thanks!

The submit button suggestion... It has so far formatted the bg of the submit but not the button itself.

ALso, any idea how I get rid of that dashed border? Using Firebug I found reference to id="m3moduleform_1" but I can't find it??

[Zappa]

Ah right,

Sorry myfault... thats because the submit button is inside a tag.

use:

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form .fbsubmit {background: #<colourcode>;}

And to get rid of the dashed border (I see two stylesheet.php's)
in the one which declares the form use:

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/* Sample FormBuilder CSS base */
	form {margin:20px; background-color: #000; border:none;}

I'd suggest you probably just use one stylesheet.php unless your confident with sorting the CSS into correct files (screen, printing, base classes etc).

Ryan

[herbshirt]

Still trying.

The submit = sorted - thanks!

Using PS Pad I'm sifting through http://www.simonportus.com.au/stylesheet.php

I found all sorts of references to css but not to 'css base'. Is it in stylesheet.php that I put that code?

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{
		$css .= "/* Start of CMSMS style sheet '{$row['css_name']}' */\n{$row['css_text']}\n/* End of '{$row['css_name']}' */\n\n";
	IN HERE MAYBE??? } 

I'm using stylesheet from an existing cms ms template they're divided into design, formatting and layout. which I hadn't seen before. I find it looks nice and organised but a bit of a pain when your a hack css'er and can't edit via ps pad so I'm always flicking from page to page. The 'screen' stylesheet was because I had a check box switched on. Off now.

[Zappa]

You don't have a base class in there at the moment but usually its where you define all of the globalised classes so they can be used on multiple devices, then a print.css or screen.css (if its a small website keep the name reletive to the type) for localised requirements. E.g. Width for a computer monitor is a lot bigger than a PDA screen.

[herbshirt]