Making web form responsive in RSD...

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I'm not sure if I should as my question here or over in the RSD forum. Let me know if I need to go over there.:) I'm closing in on getting my website revamped in RSD. At this point I do not have it published and I need to mention that it will be hosted by an external hosting service. All I have left to do is make sure everything checks out on the responsive breakpoints. Anyway, I've got two web forms in the site that were built using the Web Form Builder. I understand that I can go in and change the width of the forms under the HTML elements but as I can't preview the forms until I have the site published, I can't tell if the changes will effect the form. If I change a width of a form from say 800 to 600 how will that effect the look of the form on the published page. Will I need to go in and change the whole form? or will it readjust itself to appear as designed on the page?

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If you either add the files to RSD project or use absolute linking to the files on your host you should be able to preview on your pc in a regular browser.
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How exactly do I add the web form builder files to RSD? I tried the copy/paste to HTML element and using Resources to add the form folder. No work. I want to preview the form in my RSD without publishing. I am not looking for form functionality with this preview. Just want to see it display properly on the page before publishing.
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Unless you have a web server (like wamp, Xamp, mamp etc) installed on your system, you can't preview the page with a form locally. They have to be uploaded. This is because of php files used in the form.

When you export your form, it has to be the 'manual' way (not 'automatic'). You will then get some code that is to be pasted into RSD.
In RSD you need to have a html element where you want to have your form appearing, and then in the design pane of that html element there is a little black window where you paste the code from the form builder. Don't try adding anything from the form to the resources, that doesn't work. Instead you upload the form folder and the php file to your server, and then upload the exported website to the same location.

If you don't want the form to be 'public' while testing it, you can make a folder on the server and upload everything to that.
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jim wrote:
How exactly do I add the web form builder files to RSD? I tried the copy/paste to HTML element and using Resources to add the form folder. No work. I want to preview the form in my RSD without publishing. I am not looking for form functionality with this preview. Just want to see it display properly on the page before publishing.


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