Form Apperance in CMSMS

earcandy · Post by **earcandy** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:36 pm

Ive really been trying to get the hang of CMSMS but running into a lot of limitations as far as layout.

So I thought it might be doable to create the form in HTML and then move it over to CMSMS.

Here is the form I did in HTML:

http://windows8help.com/formtest1.htm

After pasting the HTML code into CMSMS here is what I get:

http://californiaschooloflaw.com/index. ... ly-p2-2014

I suspect this has to do with the template but with my very limited knowledge of CMSMS I just dont know what to do to get this to look right as it does at http://windows8help.com/formtest1.htm.

Hoping someone can help

Post by **JohnnyB** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:31 pm

This isn't a CMS thing, it is a CSS skill and HTML knowledge thing.
That example isn't using fieldsets, legends or even a form element!
Well, it is actually using a form element but it is absolutely incorrect HTML format with HTML elements before the doc type!?:

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 <form action="http://windows8help.com/formtools/process.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_form_id" value="4" /></__body>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<__html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="en-us" http-equiv="Content-Language" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />

There are no references to the form in CMSMS class names in your stylesheets. You need to perform some basic HTML and CSS.

Post by **velden** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:34 pm

I can assure you that limitations regarding layout in cmsms are caused by the user itself. It is very, very flexible!

This flexibility means however that you need to customize it and know how to do that.

In this specific case I think you are using two completely different stylesheets on both sites. So how could you ever compare those and say it's strange they look different?

earcandy · Post by **earcandy** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:43 pm

Thank so much. I think I sort of understand.

I need to learn about stylesheets and maybe create a new one for this form correct? Where is a good place to read up on how to do that?

Post by **velden** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:53 pm

http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/layout/stylesheets

It's about how to implement stylesheets/css in CMSMS. It's not about the basics of CSS in general.

earcandy · Post by **earcandy** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:29 am

I make no claim to being a webmaster and I am definitely not using CMSMS by my own choice.

That said I think I have almost figured it out. I created a basic template and now the form ALMOST looks right.

It looks like something now to do with the length allowed in the template- like its crushing the form.

If I upload this html file to my own server it looks beautiful and works just great - and sends the results to FormTools and all.

Appreciate the few who tried to help me here - I really do.

Thanks again.

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