I have a form on an HTML page with the usual user name, email etc. I
want to be able to display a popup window (callout?) when a text input
control element is clicked.
For example, for the form:
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<label for="uname">Use r Name</label>
<input type="text" id="uname"/>
<input type="image" src="go.gif"/>
</form>
When the user clicks in the user name fields, I want to display a
callout (or popup window), with the text:
"The username must be at least 8 character long"
does anyone know how to do this?
4  1981 
On May 8, 6:44*am, Ronald Raygun <inva...@domain .comwrote:
I have a form on an HTML page with the usual user name, email etc. I
want to be able to display a popup window (callout?) when a text input
control element is clicked.
For example, for the form:
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
* *<label for="uname">Use r Name</label>
* *<input type="text" id="uname"/>
* *<input type="image" src="go.gif"/>
</form>
When the user clicks in the user name fields, I want to display a
callout (or popup window), with the text:
"The username must be at least 8 character long"
does anyone know how to do this?
To answer your question:
<input type="text" id="uname" onfocus="alert( 'The username must be at
least 8 character long');"/>
I think you will find that this gets a bit tedious for the user. I
would recommend just telling them right on the screen. Maybe something
like:
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
<td><input type="image" src="go.gif"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Then, of course, you would perform some validation that 8 characters
were actually entered before submitting. Maybe something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkDigits() {
var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
if (uname.length == 8) {
return true;
}
else {
}
}
</script>
...
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
<td><input type="image" src="go.gif" onclick="return
checkDigits();"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
HTH...
On May 8, 7:38*am, Tom Cole <tco...@gmail.c omwrote:
On May 8, 6:44*am, Ronald Raygun <inva...@domain .comwrote:
I have a form on an HTML page with the usual user name, email etc. I
want to be able to display a popup window (callout?) when a text input
control element is clicked.
For example, for the form:
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
* *<label for="uname">Use r Name</label>
* *<input type="text" id="uname"/>
* *<input type="image" src="go.gif"/>
</form>
When the user clicks in the user name fields, I want to display a
callout (or popup window), with the text:
"The username must be at least 8 character long"
does anyone know how to do this?
To answer your question:
<input type="text" id="uname" onfocus="alert( 'The username must be at
least 8 character long');"/>
I think you will find that this gets a bit tedious for the user. I
would recommend just telling them right on the screen. Maybe something
like:
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
*<table>
* * * * <tr>
* * * * * * * * <td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
* * * * * * * * <td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
* * * * * * * * <td><input type="image" src="go.gif"/></td>
* * * * </tr>
*</table>
</form>
Then, of course, you would perform some validation that 8 characters
were actually entered before submitting. Maybe something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkDigits() {
* * * * var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
* * * * *if (uname.length == 8) {
* * * * * * *return true;
* * * * *}
* * * * *else {
* * * * *}
}
</script>
...
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
*<table>
* * * * <tr>
* * * * * * * * <td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
* * * * * * * * <td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
* * * * * * * * <td><input type="image" src="go.gif" onclick="return
checkDigits();"/></td>
* * * * </tr>
*</table>
</form>
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<script type="text/javascript">
function checkDigits() {
var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
if (uname.length == 8) {
return true;
}
else {
alert("Must be 8 characters.");
return false;
}
}
</script>
...
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label
style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
<td><input type="image" src="go.gif" onclick="return
checkDigits();"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
So now the alert only pops up when the don't follow instructions :)
HTH
Tom Cole wrote:
On May 8, 7:38 am, Tom Cole <tco...@gmail.c omwrote:
>>On May 8, 6:44 am, Ronald Raygun <inva...@domain .comwrote:
>>>I have a form on an HTML page with the usual user name, email etc. I
want to be able to display a popup window (callout?) when a text input
control element is clicked.
>>>For example, for the form:
>>><form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<label for="uname">Use r Name</label>
<input type="text" id="uname"/>
<input type="image" src="go.gif"/>
</form>
>>>When the user clicks in the user name fields, I want to display a
callout (or popup window), with the text:
>>>"The username must be at least 8 character long"
>>>does anyone know how to do this?
To answer your question:
<input type="text" id="uname" onfocus="alert( 'The username must be at
least 8 character long');"/>
I think you will find that this gets a bit tedious for the user. I
would recommend just telling them right on the screen. Maybe something
like:
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
<td><input type="image" src="go.gif"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Then, of course, you would perform some validation that 8 characters
were actually entered before submitting. Maybe something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkDigits() {
var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
if (uname.length == 8) {
return true;
}
else {
}
}
</script>
...
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
<td><input type="image" src="go.gif" onclick="return
checkDigits() ;"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
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<script type="text/javascript">
function checkDigits() {
var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
if (uname.length == 8) {
return true;
}
else {
alert("Must be 8 characters.");
return false;
}
}
</script>
...
<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label
style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
<td><input type="image" src="go.gif" onclick="return
checkDigits();"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
So now the alert only pops up when the don't follow instructions :)
HTH
Hi Tom, thanks for your response. I realized that I probably did not
state my question correctly/clearly. The behaviour I want is different
from that which you described. For one, I want to avoid using alert
boxes (at least in this scenario) - as I agree with you that they can be
very disuptive.
The behaviour I want, is to display a "hint" (like the kind you get when
you hover over a Microsoft Excel cell that has comments). So that when a
user clicks in the username cell, they have a "hint" that gives them
further info about the field, along with the opton to close the "hint".
A crude drawing of the kind of "hint" I want to display is shown below:
(--------------------------)
( Blah, blah, blah ... )
( ... )
( _______________ _______X )
\/
Where the X allows them to close the "hint" being displayed
HTH
On May 8, 7:57*am, Ronald Raygun <inva...@domain .comwrote:
Tom Cole wrote:
On May 8, 7:38 am, Tom Cole <tco...@gmail.c omwrote:
>On May 8, 6:44 am, Ronald Raygun <inva...@domain .comwrote:
>>I have a form on an HTML page with the usual user name, email etc. I
want to be able to display a popup window (callout?) when a text input
control element is clicked.
>>For example, for the form:
>><form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
* <label for="uname">Use r Name</label>
* <input type="text" id="uname"/>
* <input type="image" src="go.gif"/>
</form>
>>When the user clicks in the user name fields, I want to display a
callout (or popup window), with the text:
>>"The username must be at least 8 character long"
>>does anyone know how to do this?
>To answer your question:
><input type="text" id="uname" onfocus="alert( 'The username must beat
least 8 character long');"/>
>I think you will find that this gets a bit tedious for the user. I
would recommend just telling them right on the screen. Maybe something
like:
><form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
* * * *<tr>
* * * * * * * *<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
* * * * * * * *<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
* * * * * * * *<td><input type="image" src="go.gif"/></td>
* * * *</tr>
</table>
</form>
>Then, of course, you would perform some validation that 8 characters
were actually entered before submitting. Maybe something like this:
><script type="text/javascript">
>function checkDigits() {
* * * *var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
* * * * if (uname.length == 8) {
* * * * * * return true;
* * * * }
* * * * else {
* * * * }
>}
></script>
...
><form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
<table>
* * * *<tr>
* * * * * * * *<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
* * * * * * * *<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label style="font-size:
8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
* * * * * * * *<td><input type="image" src="go.gif"onc lick="return
checkDigits(); "/></td>
* * * *</tr>
</table>
</form>
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*<script type="text/javascript">
*function checkDigits() {
* * * * *var uname = document.getEle mentById("uname ").value;
* * * * * if (uname.length == 8) {
* * * * * * * return true;
* * * * * }
* * * * * else {
* * * * * * * alert("Must be 8 characters.");
* * * * * * * return false;
* * * * * }
*}
*</script>
*...
*<form action="somethi ng.php" method="post">
* <table>
* * * * *<tr>
* * * * * * * * *<td><label for="uname">Use r Name</label></td>
* * * * * * * * *<td><input type="text" id="uname"/><br><label
style="font-size:
*8pt;">Must be 8 characters</label></td>
* * * * * * * * *<td><input type="image" src="go.gif" onclick="return
*checkDigits(); "/></td>
* * * * *</tr>
* </table>
</form>
So now the alert only pops up when the don't follow instructions :)
HTH
Hi Tom, thanks for your response. I realized that I probably did not
state my question correctly/clearly. The behaviour I want is different
from that which you described. For one, I want to avoid using alert
boxes (at least in this scenario) - as I agree with you that they can be
very disuptive.
The behaviour I want, is to display a "hint" (like the kind you get when
you hover over a Microsoft Excel cell that has comments). So that when a
user clicks in the username cell, they have a "hint" that gives them
further info about the field, along with the opton to close the "hint".
A crude drawing of the kind of "hint" I want to display is shown below:
(--------------------------)
( Blah, blah, blah ... * * )
( ... * * * * * * * * * * *)
( *______________ ________X )
* \/
Where the X allows them to close the "hint" being displayed
HTH- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
I'm not sure I see the distinction between this and an alert box. They
both serve the same purpose, they make the user deal with a window
that they otherwis would not have to. If it's not the first time
they've been there, then they know this already, why make them search
for and click a button on a window (whether it's an alert box or a
pretty "comic book" styled window)? I personally feel that just
placing the statement unobtrusively within the form is a more user
friendly approach.
If this is the route you prefer, you could easily create a hidden div
with a transparent background and use your hint graphic as the
background. Then simply place it where you want it relative to input
field (style.top & style.left) and make id visible.
There are several threads here about just this sort of thing.
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