Push button questions

[brooksr]

How do I change the height, width, forecolor, backcolor, corner style
and other properties of push buttons?

When I click on the handles and drag, the button won't resize like in
other IDEs ...

Should I be using another type of button/control?

Brooks

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Are these normal HTML buttons? FrontPage doesn't really expose a lot of
options here because, well, for normal HTML buttons there aren't many.
Definitely not like you would find for a windows based application button.
Typically you don't resize HTML buttons like you do in windows development.
They're based upon the size of the text that is within them by default. You
can write CSS styles to adjust the width and height and most browsers should
accept this, but FP was written back when there were still fewer options due
to browser and css limitations. The HTML button just doesn't have that many
properties that you can work with. For example, even though IE buttons
appear rounded, it's an affect applied by the browser by using images and
not a result of HTML. The standard button is still a square block and
remains that way as CSS doesn't really expose anything that would let you
change this. That's why more stylish buttons rely on images to get effects
done such as rounded corners because the options just don't exist otherwise.

 

[brooksr]

Mark,

Very help post, thanks!

Is there a way to use CSS with FP2000?

So where are people getting all these nice "button images" from? Are
any of them free?

How would I use an image that I found to function like a button in FP?
What FP/HTML object would I use?

Brooks

 

[IdaSpode]

Search Google on "button maker", plenty of free ones...

DJ