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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

You're reading from   ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook 80 recipes for building attractive and interactive Joomla! forms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510622
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Creating a Simple Form FREE CHAPTER 2. E-mailing Form Results 3. Styling your Form 4. Saving Form Data in the Database 5. Form Validation and Security 6. Showing your Form in your Site 7. Adding Features to your Form 8. Uploading Files from your Forms 9. Writing Form HTML 10. Creating Common Forms 11. Using Form Plug-ins 12. Adding Advanced Features

Putting several inputs in one line


The HTML produced by the ChronoForms Form Wizard puts each field into a single column. This works well for short forms but may not always be useful for longer or more complex forms. We'll see later how you can add your own HTML. Here, we'll look at one small way that ChronoForms can help.

Getting ready

We'll work with a form that has three short text fields intended to input a date (day, month, and year). Created with the Wizard it looks like this:

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the form again with Wizard Edit then drag a MultiHolder into the workspace.

    Note

    The MultiHolder needs to go after the elements that are to be placed into it.

  2. 2. In the Properties for the MultiHolder is an Elements box. You enter the numbers of the elements that you want to include in the MultiHolder here. Unfortunately, ChronoForms doesn't give you any easy way of finding out what these numbers are. They are the order in which elements were added, starting with 1, so a little trial and error...

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