Displaying form elements in a block

#1

I'm adding some extra features to an intranet-based ASP application...

As part of the process, I thought I would give the html a mid-life upgrade,
ie. remove much of the tag-soup, replace with CSS and validate.
I'm not introducing full CSS-P at this stage, but where I can I'm trying
make inprovements.

The page uses a 3 frame layout. The left frame contains a form with a
textbox and a number of buttons (<input type="button">).
[No, I wish it didn't use frames either - but short of re-writing the whole
app, I have no choice]

Rather than bind the form in a table, I'm trying to use CSS-P determine the
layout. I've tried using display:block at various points but cant get the
results I want. [the elements just dont seem to react!]

So how do I get the following to display as a vertical list of elements?

<body>
<form>
<input type="button">
<input type="text">
<input type="button">
<input type="button">
</form>
</body>

Apologies for the pseudo-code - I'm still working on getting the 'real' code
to validate, and I didn't want to cloud the issue.

Thanks

Chris

#2

CJM wrote:

Quote:

...
Rather than bind the form in a table, I'm trying to use CSS-P
...
So how do I get the following to display as a vertical list of
elements?

body
form
input type="button"
input type="text"
input type="button"
input type="button"
/form
/body

does this help? http://www.williamtasso.com/contact.asp

Quote:

Apologies for the pseudo-code - I'm still working on getting the
'real' code to validate, and I didn't want to cloud the issue.

ahem: now don't start ;o)

--
William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com

#3

CJM wrote:

Quote:

does this help? http://www.williamtasso.com/contact.asp

Er... not as much as I would like! I'm almost certainly missing a
simple but fundamental point. It's probably a typo somewhere.

each input element needs to be (or better contained in) a block level
element to get the effect you want.

Quote:

...
PS. I don't care much for your colour scheme,

<sulk mode="frankenfurter">I didn't build it for you</sulk>

Quote:

but I like your logo.
Very topical! Not sure our antipodean friends would approve! lol

he heh - glad to be of service

--
William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com

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Displaying form elements in a block - 11-04-2003 , 07:43 AM

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