Textbox Form Filling Niceties Primer Tutorial
Some of us spend a lot of time, online, filling out forms. Do you like doing it? Is it very much “a mixed bag”? Personally, we think, yes, very much so, it is a mixed bag.
We think, on this occasion, but definitely not always, “intervening” (away from HTML form and input type=text textbox defaults) can help.
Before we outline what we discovered, why not try our online (“we won’t be taking much more than a minute of your time” … and haven’t we all heard that one!) …
So, what did you think?
If you are like me, yes, (and thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13284323/how-can-i-stop-auto-capitalization-in-a-html-text-input-field-on-an-android-sams for the “heads up” here) a …
Mix of autocorrect=”off” autocapitalize=”off” text-transform:lowercase; text-transform:uppercase;
… as far as a tailored to a form’s predicted user answer content goes, it can make the process that little bit happier. Maybe you’re a programmer eyeing this up?
… in the “proof of concept” first draft Form Filling Speed Test web application we’re presenting today. Happy “online” form filling!
Did you know?
With today’s work we concentrated on HTML input type=text “textboxes” but there is the HTML input type=number element type you can use for (that last) numerical textbox. Personally, we sometimes see this helping, but we’re not convinced that it works best for every “numerical occasion”, and we’re not convinced that all users having one foisted on them appreciate it’s talents, over a “textbox consistently applied” (perhaps involving a pattern attribute) approach?!
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