Contact Form issues

  • TeqToo

    (@teqtoo)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve been attempting to build a contact (survey) form with Contact Form 7 plugin, and ran into the issue of the text fields being far longer than is necessary or attractive. (See http://nysbs.org/newsite/nest-reports/). Have done some sleuthing on the matter, and found some threads suggesting that the size of these fields is determined by the theme, rather than by any settings in the plug-in itself. Can you comment on this, or suggest a solution? I’m not necessarily married to Contact Form 7, but I do need a contact form plug-in that will allow for a rather lengthy survey form with different types of input fields.

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  • Thread Starter TeqToo

    (@teqtoo)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    If I can’t make this one work, I may try the premium version of Form Maker, as I think this looks better, but the free version doesn’t allow for enough input fields for this survey: http://nysbs.org/newsite/form-maker-survey-form/

    Do you know of any reason why this wouldn’t work?

    Theme Author Shaped Pixels

    (@shaped-pixels)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    By default, the input field styling for this theme is 100%, so you can wrap your form in a div container and apply a max-width (not width) to that container. To give it responsive width, try doing % as the width. Like:

    max-width: 75%;

    Thread Starter TeqToo

    (@teqtoo)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    I think the Form Maker plug-in must do that automatically, because on the front end it shows as being contained in a box. As well as a number of other things it does automatically, such as generating the e-mail tags. So I may go that route instead, since building the Contact 7 form is a ponderous task – for me, anyway.

    Theme Author Shaped Pixels

    (@shaped-pixels)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    No worries…as long as you can apply a max-width attribute to any container that wraps your form, whether by doing a container yourself or doing CSS.

    As forms go…I’ve never been a fan of them myself.

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