Mobile Phone Form - Page 2

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Not quite so easy but I think I've nailed it (subject to some testing)

If others give the form a test on their smart phone I'd be grateful:)

The website and form appear to resize and fit well on most devices plus the form seems to be able to be used on a test iphone without problems.

If it passes muster I'll write up what I did.

Cheers
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Looks good for me on Iphone.:)
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Cheers,
even the confirmation message comes back onto the same page and not on a separate page. You would have to fill the form out to see what I mean if you don't know what I'm on about.

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That's the way it should work if you kept the iframe code.:cool:
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True but it didn't with the embedded code on my first attempts I tried ;)

IMHO those iframes have to go, any site I've done with them and the form have broken when resizing except for the most simple designs.
I really think that the actual form code should be on the page where the form is seen and wouldn't it be great if that was an option for the form builder by default?

Just about every site should be built for mobile sites now as it seems the Desk computer is on the way out and mobile devices will be the norm.............

Best Dave

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Dave Edwards wrote:
True but it didn't with the embedded code on my first attempts I tried ;)

IMHO those iframes have to go, any site I've done with them and the form have broken when resizing except for the most simple designs.
I really think that the actual form code should be on the page where the form is seen and wouldn't it be great if that was an option for the form builder by default?

Just about every site should be built for mobile sites now as it seems the Desk computer is on the way out and mobile devices will be the norm.............

Best Dave



Form Builder already makes forms that are responsive and the HTML markup we provide will do exactly that. If you look at the markup, there are 2 sets of code blocks in there. You have a <script> and and <iframe>. The iframe is only used if JavaScript is disabled. Just use the <script> code instead if you do not want the <iframe>. It is just good to have both.

Again, Form Builder IS responsive, so this code is perfectly and accurately coded. That means any mobile browser visiting your form will see it fully responsive if it is coded into a page that is also responsive. Using an <iframe> will have no impact on responsiveness at all there.

<iframe>'s are your friend. Having it by default the way you are looking for would actually cause more problems then it would help. Use them, love them and they will not let you down!

This is exactly what makes Form Builder so great is you have all the source code, so if placing the HTML directly into your page fits your needs better, you have it. ;)
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Iframes make it so easy. I can't imagine trying to get my latest project done putting 9 forms worth of code on a page. If I made a change to any of the forms I would have to do it all again. Now it's change and publish.:cool:
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Different strokes for different folks :) I don't like iframes and always see problems when I use them.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7557 … l-obsolete
The form builder just didn't work for me in an iframe with that particular template, I'm not rubbishing the product. It just didn't work for me in that particular scenario on mobile devices. To me if I'm not making websites for mobile devices I'm wasting everyone's time as mobile devices are the next revolution and desktops are disappearing fast.
I stand by what I said--If the program created html mark-up that I could just paste into a div and it all worked from there I'd be happy as. Having the mark-up in the contact page fixed the smart phone problem for me and the Java could be left on with that template.
If I had multiple forms they would just be placed in the multiple div's which of course could be styled via the site css.

I'm no expert! like WYSIWYG, like to be able to change code when needed and try and adhere to the KISS principle when building a site so pages load fast and google likes to spider them for SEO.
I'm sure some of the testing I did to cut and past mark-up got compromised by phone and browser cache but all seems to be working reasonably now on the test pages.
I tried to wade through the different scripts and files to understand how the form works but there are so many to look at, in fact that simple form seemed to have a ton of files and folders generated that had nothing to do with it. (looks like every file to make every option of a form gets generated when the form is exported)
At some stage I'll start deleting files a few at a time to drop the payload down while seeing if the form still works.

Just to be clear I'm not talking about s-drive here where I think you have to use iframes (correct me if I'm wrong)




Cheers
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Thanks for that link. It supports them for proper use just like any markup.:)
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.

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http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
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Yes, thought I'd post a link for a balanced perspective ;)
If they depreciated inframes for something else I'd most likely be happy too, especially if it could be styled easily.

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