Posted by Gh on 02/11/05 01:30

Question. Does the Tabs and Divs work under Mozilla Based Browsers?



On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:58:52 -0200, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on 02/09/2005 01:38 PM trlists@clayst.com said the following:
> > I have a form which is too long to be useful displayed on one page. I
> > have it broken up into 7 sections. All 7 are generated by the same PHP
> > source file, from data in a database.
> >
> > When the user updates a section they can submit it and go to the next
> > section, or submit it and finish (return to a higher-level page).
> > There is also a navigation form at the top that lets them jump from any
> > section to any other, and uses JavaScript to prompt if they try to jump
> > without having saved changes they made to the page. All of this is
> > working fine.
> >
> > What's bothering me here is that when the user is done editing the data
> > I use their input to regenerate a style sheet (the form allows them to
> > customize the appearance of a web page for their customers). That's
> > expensive -- relatively speaking -- in server load so I'd rather do it
> > only once, when they're really done. But right now I do it every time
> > they submit any page -- i.e. whenever any of the seven pages is
> > submitted, the generation code runs. I don't see any simple way to let
> > them jump around between pages, yet for me to know when they are truly
> > finished with all the data. Of course I can give the required
> > instructions -- "after you are done you have to click submit to save
> > all the data" but I bet that those won't be read and the users will
> > jump around, fail to save, and then complain that their changes are
> > getting lost.
> >
> > Any thoughts on the design issues here?
>
> You may want to take a look at this class than handles multipage forms
> with pages either as wizard like (sequential access) or tabbed like
> (random access):
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/multipageforms
>
> There is also this generates a single page using Javascript and DIVs to
> show you only part of the form at a time and links to switch to other pages:
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/wizard
>
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> Regards,
> Manuel Lemos
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