| After you have created your form, you are ready
to design the form itself. Remember that you create a form field with the <FORM></FORM> tag pair. Within the <FORM> tags will go the entire form, i.e. both the questions you ask and the form elements, i., e., the box and button spaces where the user will supply responses. |
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| To create a form element in HomeSite, use the Advanced tab on the speedbar. | ||
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| The Menu Box | A menu box allows a user to tab through a dropdown list to make a selection from a number of choices. | |
| Example | What is your area code? | |
| To add a menu box to your form in HomeSite, choose the Form element button on the Advanced tab. The Form Element dialog box will appear. |
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| In the Form Element dialog box choose Select List The Form Element dialog box for a menu box will appear. |
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| In the Name text box, specify a
name for the menu box. (In the example above, the name might be areacode.) Choose the number of rows you wish to have in your menu. Click on OK |
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| The following code will be generated:<SELECT NAME="county"> <OPTION> <OPTION> <OPTION> </SELECT> |
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| You will have to set the value for each option by
hand. Add the word SELECTED to an <OPTION> tag if you want that choice to be
pre-selected. Next to each OPTION tag add the names that will appear in the dropdown list. When you are finished your HTML code will look like this: <SELECT NAME="county"><OPTION VALUE=arlington>Arlington <OPTION VALUE=loudoun>Loudoun <OPTION VALUE=prinwill>Prince William</SELECT> |
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