css forms

[justinh]

Well, my new enemy is CSS-styled forms..

I've been reading every single tutorial I can find on this topic,

and still i don't have a really good understanding on it.

I was wondering if any of you CSS pro's have a site you would

recommend for me. I don't want a WYSIWYG (or whatever its called),

I just want to learn this.

 

Thanks in advance!

[glenelkins]

what do you mean by css-styled forms? that could mean anything from the way fields are presented, to the actual field styles

[justinh]

I'm just having problems with alignment. Getting the forms straight and lined up correctly.

[dbrimlow]

[*]This following helped me the most:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms

 

The crucial part was properly using semantic markup (which of course can be styled easily). You will have to copy it and reverse engineer it to see how various changes affect the form for your design, but once you have it right it works.

 

 

 

[*]This is the best series of 4 online articles that explains (and shows screenshots of) why forms cannot be styled to look the same cross-browser/platform:

 

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200701/styling_form_controls_with_css_revisited/

 

Matter of fact, I use the first one as a beginning reference point for a few of my sites' forms:

 

[*]The first three pages on this site: http://www.deanluxere.com/apartmentS.html.

[*]And here's a "liquid" version on a few of the pages in this site - http://www.nycrealbroker.com/