how do you rearrange comment form
  • udonudon
    Posts: 4
    Being a PHP novice... how can i rearrange the comment and new discussion form have the submit button be right after the text box and the "Format comments as" radio buttons be last? (i.e. switch the order of the two) This makes keyboard TAB button much more efficient, especially if you've set up your default Format option in forum prefs. you only tab once to the submit and hit enter.
  • jonezyjonezy
    Posts: 703
    you would do it with the css...

    find these classes in the css

    Button SubmitButton

    and add float:right; to the definitions.
  • domdom
    Posts: 116
    You don't need to move the order, just apply the "tabindex" attribute liberally
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    I think either you or mark would need to either A) define a tab order, or B) physically switch those around.
  • jonezyjonezy
    Posts: 703
    oh oh i guess i should have read the post :/
  • domdom
    Posts: 116
    jonezy, I think you misunderstood the reason behind the request...

    Gah, concurrent posting == trouble. Someone write a "checkout" extension to lock posts for 60 seconds... <_<
  • jonezyjonezy
    Posts: 703
    lol @ me and you
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    i r smrt
  • domdom
    Posts: 116
    lech r teh c00l
  • ScottishScottish
    Posts: 45
    Screwing with the default tab order is bad usability practice, mates :)
  • domdom
    Posts: 116
    Screwing with tabindex is not only not bad usability practice, it's recommended usability practice! This is provided it is done in a sensible, expected way, and I agree that in this case you could argue that it wouldn't be beneficial.
  • ScottishScottish
    Posts: 45
    Well, if your markup is well-formed, the default tab order should be sensible. But yes, sometimes you need to make small adjustments.

    But still, as you say, changing it to jump from the text box over the format comments radio buttons to the submit button is bad, because it's unexpected behavior to the user. Most users expect the tabs to go left to right, top to bottom.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    Yeah, but what they're saying (i think) is just to move the add button to above the format options - so it would be the next thing to move to. This makes for sensible practice, but i suppose could result in...unusual...aesthetics.
  • ichigoichigo
    Posts: 101
    how about displaying the format options as select box instead of radio buttons? i think that would add more usability..because you can hit it more easy and dont have to move the mouse that much to be able to choose between all options. but of course you wouldnt be able to see all options before klicking on the select box...that might substract a sense of usability...so it might be no better solution... actually i thought about the same when i saw the search section of the vanilla forum software. BUT you could add the options for formatting to the right side of the textarea... and under it you could add a sort of ajax preview...shouldnt be that hard to implement i think. that would rock :)
  • ScottishScottish
    Posts: 45
    minisweeper said: Yeah, but what they're saying (i think) is just to move the add button to above the format options - so it would be the next thing to move to.
    That's not what some were advocating:
    You don't need to move the order, just apply the “tabindex” attribute liberally
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    oh.. i didnt know what tabindex did. pardon me.
  • ScottishScottish
    Posts: 45
    NP :) EDIT: Douchebag... ;)
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