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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

Adding your own HTML


The ultimate in form layout is to hand-craft your own HTML one way or another. We'll be looking at that in more detail in Chapter 9, Writing Form HTML. Here we'll just look at a quick way to change the layout.

Note

In order to add your own Form HTML, you will need to have a working knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Getting ready

You can start with any form created with the ChronoForms Wizard.

How to do it...

  1. 1. The Wizard is an easy way of getting the key form elements into your Form HTML and being reasonably sure that they will work with ChronoForms. But, as we've seen, it brings with it quite a lot of "framework" HTML that gives the ChronoForms its look and feel, but may not be what you want.

    So, you can strip away everything but the core HTML and rebuild your own framework around it. Here, we'll switch the date form in the previous recipe to use an HTML table.

    Note

    HTML tables are anathema to purist coders but they have their practical uses and sometimes they are the easiest way...

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