Title: Adding text boxes
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# Adding text boxes
* [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/)
* I would like to add some text boxes – with configurable borders to a static page.
Can I do this?
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* [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
* (@crouchingbruin)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411087)
* You should be able to do this in any theme. I assume you just mean a rectangular
area for displaying text, and not a text box in terms of form creation.
* You can do it by adding a DIV to your page (be sure to use the Text editor and
not the Visual editor):
* ```
This is some text enclosed in a red box.
```
* You can add styling in-line, like I did above, or assign a class to the DIV and
style it using CSS (which might be better if you are planning on inserting more
than one text box in different pages).
* Thread Starter [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411090)
* Hi CrouchingBruin:
I am a “Bruin” as in UCLA grad – right Bruin?
* Thank you for the input, but what if I am deaf, dumb, and blind with respect
to HTML? Any WYSIWYG way to do this?
Thanks again, George
* [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
* (@crouchingbruin)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411094)
* Yes, UCLA class of ’82.
* > what if I am deaf, dumb, and blind with respect to HTML? Any WYSIWYG way to
> do this?
* Not that I know of, WordPress is pretty crude as far as WYSIWYG design. You are
better off learning some HTML and CSS, it’s not that difficult. Especially if
you intend on doing anything beyond very simple text entry (like the text boxes
you want). There are some good tutorials [here](http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp).
* Thread Starter [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411096)
* I’ll look into it.
A youngster! I am class of 1965. BS Engineering, and did
all class work towards Master’s; then got job offer I couldn’t say no to, so
master’s thesis went out the window.
* Thread Starter [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411099)
* Almost working;
I have the border I want, but I am not getting the margin –
the text starts right at the edge of the border. I tried removing the : after“
margin”, but that had no effect. Also, I get at the end of the text. That
is the only code that appears in the page. Thoughts?
* [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
* (@crouchingbruin)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411102)
* My mistake, I forgot to add a colon after **padding**:
* ```
This is some text enclosed in a red box.
```
* Also, if you post a link to your page, it will be easier to see what needs to
be fixed.
* Thread Starter [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411185)
* Hey, Crouching, it works!
Thank you very much, most appreciated. George
* [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
* (@crouchingbruin)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411220)
* Great. The only other thing you should learn is how to [“float”](http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp)
the box in case you don’t want the box to span across the entire width of your
content area. For example, let’s say you want to put a box in as an aside, with
the rest of the text from the page wrapping around it. You could code something
like this:
* ```
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc imperdiet risus sit amet risus aliquam viverra. Mauris adipiscing mauris at magna ornare quis accumsan mauris placerat. Fusce vitae elit ut tortor porttitor posuere eget id leo.
This is some text enclosed in a red box.
Fusce velit ipsum, egestas sed mollis in, dictum eu ligula. Vivamus ante lectus, hendrerit eget consequat nec, varius sit amet tellus. Phasellus turpis urna, sollicitudin lacinia pretium nec, semper aliquet ligula. Integer sed dolor sit amet ante mollis fermentum a nec nibh. Aliquam vel risus quis quam sodales congue.
```
* Thread Starter [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411223)
* I get it; you are dragging me, kicking and screaming,into learning HTML, PHP,
and CSS.
* For years, I designed embedded microprocessor systems, including the code to
make them run [machine language, modified Basic and C++], and managed to stay
far away from what I now need.
* George
* Thread Starter [inventorgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inventorgeorge/)
* (@inventorgeorge)
* [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-boxes-1/#post-4411225)
* Hey, That’s neat!
This just might be fun.
* The only thing that bothers me about HTML is the rigid protocols- like leaving
out a colon, and it doesn’t work. With the languages I used before, there were
ways to debug, and a slipped protocol usually would not crash the code.
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