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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Adding an "other" box to a drop-down


Drop-downs are a valuable way of offering a list of choices to your user to select from. And sometimes it just isn't possible to make the list complete, there's always another option that someone will want to add. So we add an "other" option to the drop-down. But that tells us nothing, so we need to add an input to tell us what "other" means here.

Getting ready

We'll just add one more element to our basic newsletter form. We haven't used a drop-down before but it is very similar to the check-box element from the previous recipe and the radio button array we used in Chapter 2, E-mailing Form Results

How to do it...

  1. 1. Use the Form Wizard to create a form with two TextBox elements, a DropDown element, and a Button element.

  2. 2. The changes to make in the element are:

    • Add "I heard from" in the Label

    • Change the Field Name to "hearabout"

    • Add some options to the Options box — "Google", "Newspaper", "Friend", and "Other"

    Leave the Add Choose Option box checked and leave...

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