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June 26th, 2008 at 12:51am
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The Man in Blue > Styling Form Widgets
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. " Skip to navigation Skip to content The Man in Blue Page Options Default style Contrast style (low vision) No style Search this site: Home Archives Links Experiments Portfolio Contact Styling Form Widgets 28 April 2004 14 comments "With great power comes great responsibility." So said the Gods of the W3C when they handed man the gift of CSS 1. Much good was done with this boon from the heavens. Content and style – once entangled like the roots of a mangrove – were cloven in twain. Code was lightened, CSS files were cached and a peace descended over the land. But some, a foolish few, scoffed and laid a curse over their web pages, crying out: "let our forms be blighted and hideous!" I'm not pointing fingers here , but even though forms aren't usually the best looking part of a Web site sometimes you've got to resist the urge to style them, for usability's sake. Form elements come from deep within your Operating System, they're the primordial substance of Web pages, and there's a reason why they look like they do. Buttons and text fields classically look 3D because they are meant to be interacted with. The tactile feel that a bevel adds to an element gives the user hints as to their functionality. If a form button looks like it can be pressed, then it should be pressed. This is what Donald Norman would call a " perceived affordance ". When you take that affordance away, users will not recognise how they interact with an element, or take longer to do so. So, why give a form element a uniform one pixel border and make it just look like a box with a word in it? I don't think that the minimal aesthetic improvements made by styling form elements in this manner outweighs the fact that such changes detract from th" .... read entire page
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