Re: Minor forms problem

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Thanks again, David. I haven't communicated my forms problem adequately.
When I said my tabs were "skewed," I didn't mean the way they appeared on the
page, but that the form controls were reached by the tab key out of order.

First, I have two forms pages. In one, the in-line tabs work perfectly, and
the Confirmation Page has all form control responses in the correct order.
In the second -- a much simpler one -- using the tab key does not move
sequentially through the controls. In other words, pressing the tab key
moves the cursor to the last form control rather than the first. Please
believe me when I tell you that I redid this page this morning to make sure
all form controls were entered sequentially, but the problem continued. I
then used David B's "bring to front" method on each control sequentially, and
the problem persists. My Confirmation Page has the responses in an incorrect
order, with some of the controls at the bottom of the page reporting as at
the top of the page. As I've said, this is not a critical problem -- the
fields are all filled in easily if the user just uses mouse clicks instead of
the tab key, and even using the tab key will eventually get you to all fields
although not in the proper order. The return form is no problem either --
our administrators know what is what. It is more annoyance than anything
else, and then it might irritate a client or two. Could it be that when I
redid the forms page some code was left behind? Should I recreate the form
on a new page? This is really much ado about not very much.
"DavidF" wrote:

CWhit,

I assume that you are looking at the same material, but here is the text I
copied from David's old FAQ page about reordering the form controls:

Q. The form controls on my form "tab" in a random order. Can the tab order
be specified?
A. By default Publisher sets the tab order in the order in which the
controls are added to the page. The Arrange (front/back) feature can be used
to set an explicit tab order in a form. This is done by selecting each
control in the order you want the tab order to follow, and setting it to
"bring to front". In v2003 you can right click the control and select Order,
Bring to front. In v2002 you can use Alt + F6. Or just use the Arrange menu.

Perhaps try the different methods, and perhaps you need to left click and
drag across the individual control in order to "select" it?

As to tabs being slightly askew...perhaps try the nudge feature until
everything lines up in web preview...or post the URL to the specific page
where you are having the problem so we can see what you are talking about.

I think the main thing with Earthlink is to make sure the FrontPage Server
Extensions (FPSE) are installed. If they are then http protocol SHOULD work.
Once again from David's FAQs:

Q. How do I know if my web host installed FrontPage Server Extensions
(FPSE) on my account?
A. You can confirm that FPSE was successfully installed and are functional
by browsing to the page "_vti_inf.html" at the root of your domain. For
example - http://www.mydomainname.com/_vti_inf.html . If the FrontPage
configuration page loads then that is your confirmation page. A "page cannot
be found" or other such server error would indicate that FPSE needs to be
installed or reinstalled by the host.

Good luck.

DavidF

"CWhit" <CWhit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Two questions, actually: 1. My forms work on my test site but the in-line
tabs are slightly askew. I entered all text boxes, check boxes, option
buttons, list boxes and text areas sequentially, but navigating the form I
find skipping some form controls and going back to them later with tabs.
I
then took David B's advice and went back through clicking each form
control
and clicking "bring to front". But the result was the same. This is a
minor
point, since this particular form will likely be point and click by the
user
instead of tabbing anyway. But the confirmation has the same error -- of
course -- with items out of sequence. Neither is this a big problem,
it's
mainly a puzzlement and a minor annoyance. 2. Also regarding forms.
Bigger
problem My earthlink web host keeps telling me via live chat that I need
to
upload my pages in ftp. I keep telling them I can't do that. They keep
telling me I have to. Finally someone said since I am saving to the web
from
my web creator, Publisher, I can go ahead and use the http protocol.
Guess
what. I don't trust them. I have not tried the upload yet and won't
until
the middle of the night. Any ideas?



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