On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net wrote:
I also find that Web forms are often laid out badly. They can notcount on a screen size so they go with the one-per-line model: Data Item 1: _____ Data Item 2: _________________________ Data Item 3: __________________________________________________ Data Item 4: _____ Data Item 5: __________ even if it would be clearer to have more than one item on a line (such as with addresses). This often overflows off the bottom the screen. My desktop app does not have this problem.
Really it is the content within the <div> tags. Adding "space" to have the labels line up in an orderly row is not done any more.
I saw one page that I greatly regret not having saved the URL for.It was made very "pretty". As a result, each data item (one per line) took about triple the vertical space it needed. Worse, there were no cues as to how long the input could be. I filled in a reference of about 35-40 characters and when I submitted the form, only then was I told that input was limited to 12 characters.
The display doesn't maintain the rules. The first submit click may render them because you failed to know it all ahead of time < sarcasm >.
the rules are either javascript, css, or a combination of the two.