Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/01/06 21:37

LeftHorn wrote:
> Hi all, thanks for your input here...
>
> We can for sure agree that one way to solve it was datavalidation when the
> data is going to be processed - but this cant be done since different fields
> can be used for different purposes, and a SPACE character is a character
> that can make sense, even as a trailing space.

Whoa! When you do data verification you should not apply one rule
universally! E.g., if the field is say 'price' then the validation
should be numeric only [0-9] '.' and '-' maybe. 'name' alpha, street
alpha and numeric for street numbers....

>
> Therefore i want to be able to assist the user, so they can spot theese
> additional spaces - some of which are totally alright, i cant unfortunately
> make a general rule that strips leading and trailing spaces, etc. etc.

but your said previously:
>> They are allowed to use 'spaces' in their textfields, sometimes they
>> require to insert a space in the end, sometimes it would be fatal if
>> they do - the problem is that from a visual point of view the
>> inputfield is like this:

"fatal"? If so you better to data validation! Or I see one very very
hackable site.

>
> So the only way i can see you would be able to help the user, was that you
> had the backgroundcolor ex. white the textbackground ex. grey, the textcolor
> ex. black - that way it would pop into the eyes. But i guess that cant be
> easily done unless im going to convert it into somekind of applet or
> application ?

You cannot change the color of portions of form input values. Of course
not to sound like a broken where here a URL can certainly help
especially when the questions are ambiguous.


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Take care,

Jonathan
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