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    Question Change text style in NOF 12 Forms Handler

    Is there a way to change the text style in the NOF 12 Forms Handler?
    In the "Field" tab I can specify a style, but it only shows the choice between "blank" and "SiteStyle" - even when I added a different style to the site.

    example: www.stag-club.nl/html/contact.php - the forms text is too big....

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    A little further now, but it still isn't quite like I want it to bee.
    I have the form handler placed in a table, and placed a CSS code class in the table tag: <................... table class="stat">
    I surrounded the table with <DIV> tags.

    Added the following to the CSS sheet:
    table.stat th, table.stat td {
    font-size: 80%;
    font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;
    background: #F2F2F2; color : #630;
    }

    Now it picks up the changed font size and the background, but it still has the wrong font.....

    Anybody?

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    On 9/24/2012 11:01 AM, cappersg wrote:
    > Is there a way to change the text style in the NOF 12 Forms Handler?
    > In the "Field" tab I can specify a style, but it only shows the choice
    > between "blank" and "SiteStyle" - even when I added a different style to
    > the site.
    >
    > example: 'www.stag-club.nl/html/contact.php'
    > (http://www.stag-club.nl/html/contact.php) - the forms text is too
    > big....
    >
    >

    As far as any "radical" changes, somewhat limited in NOF12.

    From the Dept of Alternative Ideas...

    An "alternative" is what has been proven to work as a Form tool for use
    within NOF all versions, and NOF 12 in our case...

    This one the NEW (not the older) CoffeeCup Web Form Builder 2.1.

    http://www.coffeecup.com/web-form-builder/

    This one fits into NOF 12 superbly -- via the NOF Text HTML feature --
    and has a great many features that NOF 12 has not yet heard about. In
    actual uses, it's proven many times "worthy" to use within NOF 12 and
    has performed as advertised.

    Agreed, we don't always need to be advised of a third-party alternative,
    but that CC tool works splendidly.

    Joe

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    Merely changing the CSS params works for me, but perhaps I am as confused as usual.

    Are you trying to change the displayed forms page characters, or the characters displayed as the field is being completed or, on the form as submitted to and seen by the recipient?

    As a work-around until a comfortable solution is found... is the page in PHP format? If so, perhaps a local publish would allow you to modify the individual components, or all content as a whole by modifying the locally published php file and sending the result independently of the entire site?

    I know, i know. It's weak thinkin', but:

    echo "<font face=\"verdana\">";
    // stuff for different font
    echo "</font>";

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    @Joe, thanks for the tip. I looked into it, though i hesitate to use 3rd party tools. Since the Coolmaps experience (great stuff- but no development after NOF8...) i try to stick with one program... But sometimes it has to be done :-).
    A quick search on the internet showed mixed appreciation for the tool: quite expensive and not very reliable since it seems to be written in flash. Have to check that further, which is difficult since the demo version makes it impossible to save your work. First impression for myself: too expensive, too many risk, no way of really testing.
    Last edited by cappersg; 09-25-2012 at 09:17 AM.

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    @cougarfood: good question about which font i want to change! It's the one in the forms page, to let them match the layout of the page itself. Strangely enough i discovered this morning by accident that the page on my Samsung (also google browser!) displays perfectly in one font type.... It's also a device thing too, it seems.
    Changing php or local publish is no option: the site changes a lot and i would have to rewrite the form every time before publishing. Even more against this option: i'm not a programmer - php is like abacadabra for me....
    But thanks a lot for thinking!

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    Gotcha.

    C) the php stuff is kind of no-brainer-stuff. Open, look, read existing text, then hammer to-fit and paint-to-match.
    B) remember that not all fonts render the same from machine-to-machine and platform-to-platform. It's really best to use a basic, ambiguous & hardware-passive font.
    A) yeah, I'd just hash the Formhandler .js component within the published directory. Once you've created the working form, it's rarely changed. Right?

    I know, it's design by dynomite but should render as you desire. It was a thot.





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