Form - submit - results layout

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DianaH

I'm setting up a form. When I've done this before ... the form that gets
submitted (via email) ... looks really boring. Is there a way to create a
layout for the form results?
thanks.
 
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Trevor L.

DianaH said:
I'm setting up a form. When I've done this before ... the form that
gets submitted (via email) ... looks really boring. Is there a way
to create a layout for the form results?
thanks.

I think the answer is bacially: No
At least all the answers I have read here have said so.

I also tried myself a while ago and came up with no way to do it.

About all I could do was add line breaks and alter some of the text
e.g. I could replace that said something like
form.field.checked=y
to a more descriptive field name and recode 'y' to 'Yes' (or to anything
else for that matter).

It could read, for example
"The reponse to question 1. (Use of widgets) was: Used Frequently
"The reponse to question 2. (Use of sprogs) was: Used Sometimes
(Of course the form would have to set out so that what you recode replies to
makes sense)
I could also position the response fields where I wanted.

I used Javascript to do this, but that's about all I could do. No nice
background colours or fonts or any such niceties.
 
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DianaH

Thanks for the response Trevoe. I won't keep trying to find it ... unless I
happen upon something while looking for something else. I'm perhaps trying
to do more with these forms than they can do. I'm hoping MS's new web
design software allows more of this stuff with more ease.
Diana

DianaH said:
I'm setting up a form. When I've done this before ... the form that
gets submitted (via email) ... looks really boring. Is there a way
to create a layout for the form results?
thanks.

I think the answer is bacially: No
At least all the answers I have read here have said so.

I also tried myself a while ago and came up with no way to do it.

About all I could do was add line breaks and alter some of the text
e.g. I could replace that said something like
form.field.checked=y
to a more descriptive field name and recode 'y' to 'Yes' (or to anything
else for that matter).

It could read, for example
"The reponse to question 1. (Use of widgets) was: Used Frequently
"The reponse to question 2. (Use of sprogs) was: Used Sometimes
(Of course the form would have to set out so that what you recode replies to
makes sense)
I could also position the response fields where I wanted.

I used Javascript to do this, but that's about all I could do. No nice
background colours or fonts or any such niceties.
 
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Trevor L.

DianaH said:
Thanks for the response Trevoe. I won't keep trying to find it ...
unless I happen upon something while looking for something else. I'm
perhaps trying to do more with these forms than they can do. I'm
hoping MS's new web design software allows more of this stuff with
more ease.
Diana

Yes, what is needed is the ability to create one of those HTML newsletters
that arrive in the EMail
EG the latest one I received from JavaScript.com:
Subject: JavaScript.com HTML Newsletter, Fri May 12

Is anyone at Microsoft listening?
 
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DianaH

Here's hoping!

DianaH said:
Thanks for the response Trevoe. I won't keep trying to find it ...
unless I happen upon something while looking for something else. I'm
perhaps trying to do more with these forms than they can do. I'm
hoping MS's new web design software allows more of this stuff with
more ease.
Diana

Yes, what is needed is the ability to create one of those HTML newsletters
that arrive in the EMail
EG the latest one I received from JavaScript.com:
Subject: JavaScript.com HTML Newsletter, Fri May 12

Is anyone at Microsoft listening?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Not possible when using the FP Form Handler. Can be done with a custom written server-side form
handler (ASP, PHP, CFM, etc.) depending what is supported by your web host.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
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If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
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DianaH

I just realized I never responded to your reply.

Thanks for letting me know it's not possible in my realm - at least I knew
not to look into Frontpage further for that.

As for the server-side form handler ... it might be while before I venture
deep enough into some of that. I've used a bit of php script elsewhere ...
a wysiwyg for php would be nice - t'was a little beyond me.

Not possible when using the FP Form Handler. Can be done with a custom
written server-side form
handler (ASP, PHP, CFM, etc.) depending what is supported by your web host.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================
 

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