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FP2000: Scrolling Text Form Field Saved Differently


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This article was previously published under Q197989

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194479 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194479/EN-US/ ) .

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Summary

If you use a feedback form with results files formatted as HTML in Microsoft FrontPage 2000, the results file may appear to have form field labels formatted inconsistently, and the order may be altered.

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When you create a feedback form in FrontPage 2000, and set the results page to be formatted as HTML, then the results page will have all form field labels will be formatted as BOLD text, except for any fields that are scrolling text boxes. Scrolling text box field labels will be formatted with a Heading 3 tag.

Also, no matter what order the fields are created in the form, or what order the are rearranged into, the scrolling text box field data will get saved last in the list.

This is done for two reasons.
  1. While other form fields have a single-line response, the entry in a scrolling text box may span several paragraphs. Creating a Heading 3 tag makes it stand out more, and allows for easy visual separation of one set of scrolling text box content from other field results.
  2. Because these potentially long answers would disrupt the reading of the data from one record to another, all the scrolling text-box results are appended to the end of the record area, so that all the "one-line" answers are together at the top or each record, and the longer possibly multi-line answers are at the end.
There is no way to alter either of these formatting details.

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Article Info
Article ID : 197989
Revision : 1
Created on : 2/28/2002
Published on : 2/28/2002
Exists online : False
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