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jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Natalie Maclees
Book Image

jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Natalie Maclees

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Improving the appearance


If you've tried styling web forms with CSS, then you've probably discovered that some form elements, such as text inputs and buttons, are pretty easy to style. There are a few quirks, but once you get those figured out, you can get those form elements to look just about any way you'd like. Other form elements, however, are much more stubborn and don't respond much, if at all, to CSS styles. It's so frustrating to design a lovely form only to realize that it's technically impossible.

These troublesome form elements are as follows:

  • <select>

  • <input type="file">

  • <input type="checkbox">

  • <input type="radio">

Not only are these four form elements impossible to style with CSS, but they also look radically different in different browsers and operating systems, leaving us with little control over the appearance of our form. Let's see how Lutrasoft's Fancyform plugin can help us out.