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Setting up text fields


You can set up text fields, password fields, and text areas on your Web page form.The Text Field and Password icons insert a single-line text field that lets viewers enter text, such as their names or other personal data, or a hidden password, respectively. The Text Area icon inserts a text field that lets viewers enter multiple lines of text. When a viewer clicks the Submit button, this text will be passed to the CGI script.

To set up a text field or a password field:

1 Drag the Text Field or Password icon from the Forms tab () of the Objects palette to your document window, or double-click the icon in the Objects palette.

A. Text Field icon B. Password icon

2 Select the icon in the document window, and set the options in the Inspector.

3 In the Name text box, type in a unique name to identify the text field or password field.

4 In the Value (Windows) or Content (Mac OS) text box, type in default text that can be overwritten by viewers, or leave the text box empty.

Note: Password protection of Web pages is an interactive feature that requires processing of viewer entries through a CGI script on the Web server. What you implement in Adobe GoLive is the visual representation of the password protection mechanism.

5 In the Visible text box, type in the number of characters that will be visible in the text box.

6 In the Max text box, type in the maximum number of characters accepted by the text box before truncation occurs. The default is to leave it empty. If empty, this limit is determined by the Web browser used to view the form.

7 Select Password Field if the text box is a password text box. If selected, Adobe GoLive will display bullets rather than text as the viewers type.

To set up a text area:

1 Drag the Text Area icon from the Forms tab () of the Objects palette to your document window, or double-click the icon in the Objects palette.

2 Select the icon in the document window, and set the options in the Form Text Area Inspector.

3 In the Name text box, type in a unique name to identify the text area.

4 In the Rows text box, type in the number of rows to determine the maximum number of rows visible in the text box.

5 In the Columns text box, type in the number of characters to determine the width of the visible text area.

6 Choose the appropriate option from the Wrap pop-up menu to control line breaks:

  • Default uses the default text area settings of the browser.
  • Off instructs the browser to ignore the Columns limit and prevents text entered into the text area from wrapping at the right margin of the box.
  • Virtual and Physical instruct the browser to respect the Columns limit. The entered text wraps when it reaches the right margin of the box and starts scrolling vertically.

    • 7 If desired, in the Content text box, type in default text that the viewer can overwrite (optional).

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