Layout of input form changes

[fti]

I'm somehow puzzled
Created an input form with css only (no tables) it works fine as long as I have
<form id="two" action="..." method="post"> on beginning of form. As soon as I add:
<form action="name of directory..../form_tools/process.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_initialize_form" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_form_id" value="2" />
the original form shows without any css.
One can post on that form and it goes to formtools without issues but the input form looks horrible. What does happen that the css is ignored.
Formtools did not give any errors and the html page validates too.

[Ben]

Hi FTI.

Ah! Try just adding in the id="two" back into the generated HTML form Form Tools. So it would look liie tis:

Code:

<form id="two" action="name of directory..../form_tools/process.php" method="post">

The generated code is just really for your convenience: you're welcome to edit it however you want, adding in any other attributes you might like.

Hope this helps!

- Ben

[fti]

Ben:
thank you very much
that did it.
A real simple solution which works perfect.
As I'm not a pro....if you have time to explain, why would that other code change the css in the file???

[Ben]

No problem!

Nothing was actually changing the CSS - it's just that by omitting the id="" attribute, the CSS rules you defined aren't applied to the form, so it ends up looking different. That's pretty much it! Since Form Tools can't know all the form attributes each user wants to use, it just generates the simplest HTML that it needs which can then be edited.

Hope that clears things up a bit.