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Posted by Mike Minor on 04/02/07 18:40
Sorry I'm so STUPID!
I thought news groups were for asking questions...with responses like these
it's a wonder any body bothers.
And by the way, I have been studying Yukka's web site to try and pick up
some tips. It's a nice and helpful site. Too bad his attitude comes across
so negatively when he responds to questions here. He doesn't have any
insight into what my superiors have asked me to do and what I'm trying to
accomplish. He just puts it down to my supidity.
Now that I think of it, he reminds me of a professor I had my freshman year
of college. His VERY FIRST statment he made to our class was, "I don't
answer questions." My first thought was, "then what the hell good are you as
a teacher."
In my humble opinion, if he can't say something helpful, he should just not
respond. I am so sick and tired of the holy-er than thou attitudes I see so
often here.......
Mike
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
news:y49Qh.29145$et1.3568@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi...
> Scripsit Mike Minor:
>
>> I'm using CSS to modify the appearance submit buttons on various
>> pages.
>
> That's generally counter-productive, since you increase the odds that they
> won't be recognized as submit buttons. You also tend to get crappy results
> e.g. on Windows XP, which has rather nice default appearance for submit
> buttons but easily turns to a crude rectangle when you start "styling" it.
>
> So my primary advice on the problem is that you should stop creating it.
>
>> On one page I have an <input type="file"> line which
>> automatically includes a BROWSE button.
>
> That's strange enough to many users, even without any further obfuscation.
> Many people don't understand what file submission is. They _might_ know
> that if they see a _familiar-looking_ file input widget. It seems that you
> are aiming at preventing that.
>
>> I add the class="button" to the input type="file" line.
>
> Well, OK, that doesn't do anything, as such.
>
>> However, it doesn't apply the button's
>> appearance doesn't change.
>
> Did you expect it to change? Why?
>
>> Instead it applys the appearance changes
>> to the text input box.
>
> I suspect you have some style sheet, and I pretty much know that you have
> errors in it.
>
> When you searched for an answer in the group archives before posting, did
> you _really_ miss all those helpful "please specify the URL" or "tell us
> the URL unless you want just waste everyone's time" notes?
>
>> Sorry, but the site is not up on the web yet, so I can't post a link
>> for you to see it yet.`
>
> That's a _lame_ excuse. You can always upload a demo page.
>
>> What I have tried is the following:
>>
>> <input type=file size=77 name="FILE1" class="button">
>
> Well, that much was obvious from previous, except for irrelevant details
> like the name and size attribute values. Just the rest remains hidden.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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