Label placement in web forms
From Swapnonil Mukherjee:
Matteo Penzo has published an excellent article about the placement and alignment of labels in data entry forms. His research, though much more scientific and thorough, confirms what I had said earlier, about the importance of right aligning form labels.
In AppFuse 1.9.2, we added support for the CSS Framework and Wufoo-style forms. The new form layout appears to satisfy many of Matteo's suggestions. The only things we aren't doing are: 1) we're using bold labels instead of plain text and 2) we're using labels for drop-downs, instead of making the first element the label. I suppose the bold labels isn't much of an issue b/c we're not using heavy input borders. As for labels and <select> elements, I think the way we're doing things is good enough. If it works for Wufoo, it works for us!
Posted by Patrick Lightbody on August 22, 2006 at 08:30 PM MDT #
Yeah, I customized the css_xhtml theme's FreeMarker templates. I'd be more than happy to contribute my changes, or contribute them to a new theme. It should be noted that you'll need AppFuse's forms.css to make things look right.
Posted by Matt Raible on August 22, 2006 at 08:55 PM MDT #
Posted by Patrick Lightbody on August 22, 2006 at 08:56 PM MDT #
Posted by Wim Deblauwe on August 23, 2006 at 06:41 AM MDT #
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Posted by Matt Raible on August 25, 2006 at 03:24 PM MDT #