[Solved] Rad input control positioning

[Andrea Del Brocco]

Hello,
we are involved into developing an asp.net huge intranet application.
We have a previous application in vs 2003 using absolute position but we dont want to use in that way.

In this application there are many forms and input masks, we'd like to use radinput but having troubles in design a well defined form like a "win form". In our html test forms we use css position inline ( top, left, relative, etc), and we are looking a way to avoid tables or a lot of <div> manually entered..

The 'design mode' of RAD controls is not so 'visual'.. or we are making a big mistake ?

We are looking for some samples or best practice to start our work of designing forms, please give us some hint.

Best regards

Andrea

[Dimo]

Hi Andrea,

I am afraid I don't understand what do you mean by "The 'design mode' of RAD controls is not so 'visual'." - can you please explain a little bit and give specific examples?

In addition, in my opinion using too much relative positioning (or negative margins) is as bad as using absolute positioning - I recommend that you use only floats and use them sparingly and wisely.

Here are some good examples about designing table-less forms:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/11/css-based-forms-modern-solutions/

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/10-css-form-examples

http://socialcmsbuzz.com/40-css-web-form-style-tutorials-for-web-developers-14082008/

Best wishes,
Dimo
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[Andrea Del Brocco]

Thanks, for "The 'design mode' of RAD controls is not so 'visual'" i mean that is not WYSIWYG so we design a form and in runtime is different, and we think that we miss somethink .

We study the links you kindly send us, thanks a lot

Andrea