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I featured many good looking contact forms some time ago – 91 Trendy Contact And Web Forms For Creative Inspiration, so you should know how looks good example. Now let’s take a look how to create outstanding and beautifully designed form elements from scratch ourselves. Things can get tricky even if you are experienced designer. It’s hard to attract visitors attention, but this article should help to stand out and create semantically correct, good looking and accessible web forms, checkboxes, radio buttons, buttons, fieldsets – everything you can think of when you are creating contact or login page!
This tutorial explains how to design a good form using a clean CSS design with only label and input tags to simulate an HTML table structure. You can use all CSS/HTML elements to design your custom form for your web projects.
Very well explained tutorial showing crucial points you should give attention to.
Forms don’t have to be ugly and boring, and certainly don’t have to be inside tables to look nice and aligned.
Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. You can either use the default theme that is provided or you can even develop your own look with minimal effort.
This tutorial will teach you how to make a stunning comment form using an old postcard photo.
The example you are going to see is something that you use every day: blog comment form.
Ever wanted to match the look of your HTML forms with the rest of your website? This article demonstrates how to apply customized backgrounds to HTML forms, while preserving stucturally clean markup and accesibility.
Semantically correct web forms with fieldsets, legends, labels and some CSS styling. It’s been tested in FF1.x, IE6 and Opera8. (looks a little quirky in IE5.x but still usable).
Create beautiful web forms using just CSS, very good tutorial!
7 different style examples, where you can study code and creat good looking forms.
Use CSS to build your form without any use of tables. Code examples are written in good-old-fashioned HTML instead of ASP.NET and do not contain validation, ID’s, etc. Continue with second part on their website, to learn how to send and receive that data – Staying in Touch – How to Build a Contact Form.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a standard form and then make it special with some simple CSS tricks and techniques. You will improve the usability, aesthetics and layout, while picking up design cues from the existing design elements.
This post will explain choices when marking up the forms, and the CSS styling involved in making them cross-browser compatible.
Adding some expressive background images to your HTML form can be considered sometimes as a relevant point. This can be done easily with pure CSS.
This is universal CSS for forms who will interact in the simple natural way with HTML form and HTML form will work decently well even without CSS.
A lot of forms can be boring and plain, don’t let yours blend in. This tutorial will show you how to spice them up with CSS classes and default values that change according to which form item is selected. All with just a splash of jQuery.
It’s a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show. This article will show a way to do this.
Animated auto messages are useful to improve FORM usability and Scriptaculous is a great framework to use in this case.
With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your <select>s beautiful… and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.
Modern and comprehensive web form example. It works in Win/IE6, Firefox v1.0+, Win/Opera v8.0, has minor layout differences in Mac/Safari v1.0.3 and Mac/Safari v1.2, and is usable but fairly buggered in Mac/IE5.2.
FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It’s accessible, easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers.
The function of the interface is to input information, so semantically this is a form, so way of building it will be using form elements: fieldset, legend, label and input.
Lightweight custom styled checkbox implementation for jQuery 1.2.x and 1.3.x.
The AutoSuggest class adds a popdown menu of suggested values to a text field. The user can either click directly on a suggestion to enter it into the field, or navigate the list using the up and down arrow keys, selecting a value using the tab key. The values for the suggestion list are to provided as XML (by a PHP script, or similar).
LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core validation methods, which can also be used outside the context of forms. Secondly, it provides your visitors with real-time validation information as they fill out forms, helping them to get it right first time, making the forms easier, quicker and less daunting to complete.
This script is for people who wants to have a consistent look for checkboxes across browser or those who simply want them to look better. By using this script you wont loose any of the regular inputs usability.
Unobtrusive select multiple input alternative for Prototype.
Here’s a form validation script that is very easy to use.
Autotab is a jQuery plugin that provides auto-tabbing and filtering on text fields in a form. Once the maximum number of characters has been reached within a defined text fields, the focus is automatically set to the defined target of the element.
Just make a form, and this script will add the ability to resize each textarea…if you want to, based on MooTools.
This JavaScript and CSS will allow you to use custom images for checkboxes, radio buttons and select lists.
These forms do not do anything and have very little validation. They solely demonstrate how you can use Ext Forms to build and layout forms on the fly.
This tutorial illustrates a proposal about how to design a pure CSS form without using HTML tables.
This is a tableless CSS form which you can use as a template for implementing your own lightweight form. It uses a combination of float and negative margins to create a two column layout for the form.
36 simple documents, each containing twelve controls of the same kind, but with a different CSS rule for each element. Due to the various controls having different properties to style, there are two three slightly different sets of rules. Check out also follow-up article.
cforms is a powerful and feature rich form plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.
You can view and download 13 different css stylesheets, great for study!
224 screenshots showing the effects of various CSS rules applied to form controls. The screenshots are taken from 8 browsers on 4 operating systems, for a total of 14 different browser + OS combinations. Huge article!
CSSGlobe is giving away 5 really good web form style designs, which can be used freely and studied as well.
In this great article from DesignReviver you will be walked through web form building with explained basic code examples, several tools to help you build up your form as well as incredible contact pages found over the web for inspiration. Must read!
Excellent article from CSS-Tricks with 7 tips how to create better web forms.
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 23:57
Very good article!
Exactly what i was looking for
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 16:13
Thank you very much this is what i was waiting for the Formulary!
Thursday, November 4th, 2010 22:12
this is thank you. 1stwebdesigner
Friday, October 15th, 2010 23:44
You have to love superbly designed and yes simple contact forms. I continue to be in overwhelming awe in the resource you routinely assemble.
Friday, September 10th, 2010 16:38
I’ve seen all of these elsewhere on other sites. Sorry, nothing new here for me to thumb up.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 00:58
Thank you very much this is what i was waiting for the Formulary!
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 01:45
Thanks for these great scripts, a must have.
Cheers,
Mario
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 16:36
Creating forms that look the same on all browsers can be a tricky affair. Thanks for sharing this post – you have provided a lot of different solutions to the problem at hand.
Monday, December 14th, 2009 18:21
Above tutorial is really useful, thanks to given it.
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 08:22
That’s a great list, I especially love round forms like #5, #23 thanks there giving me some great ideas.
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 06:17
Many of these have helped me out in the past while making forms and validating them, good list.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 22:32
How about Hawidu CSS’s form styles?
It includes essential ALA-style pretty form layout, CSS-only rounded-corner buttons with gradient overlays for quick hover effects and site-wide color changes, and some other goodies. All of this plus non-form elements and CSS best practices to boot. Yeah, Hawidu CSS is the bee’s knees.
Monday, September 21st, 2009 21:09
This is a great list I have sent it to a couple of my friends and really appreciate all your time you spent collection these resources.
Fantastic job!!!
Monday, September 21st, 2009 21:08
You have to love superbly designed and yes simple contact forms. I continue to be in overwhelming awe in the resource you routinely assemble.
Monday, September 21st, 2009 09:16
I’m in love with the number 6 – postcard form, number 16, number 47,49 and 50. Gorgeous and creative.
Gonna stumble this.
Now I have to find a way of creating my own gorgeous form :-D
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 23:32
To be honest I am amazed of your beautiful tutorials and how many you have them, because I know how much time takes to create something like that! Big respect!
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 02:47
I think the same! The tuts of Sixpacl are very detailed and easy to continue
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Rob
Friday, November 6th, 2009 02:25
That uni-form is amazing! Great find
Jason
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 06:17
Many of these have helped me out in the past while making forms and validating them, good list.
Prowl
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 08:22
That’s a great list, I especially love round forms like #5, #23 thanks there giving me some great ideas.
Brad Czerniak
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 22:32
How about Hawidu CSS’s form styles?
It includes essential ALA-style pretty form layout, CSS-only rounded-corner buttons with gradient overlays for quick hover effects and site-wide color changes, and some other goodies. All of this plus non-form elements and CSS best practices to boot. Yeah, Hawidu CSS is the bee’s knees.
BunnygotBlog
Monday, September 21st, 2009 21:09
This is a great list I have sent it to a couple of my friends and really appreciate all your time you spent collection these resources.
Fantastic job!!!
Janko
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 23:14
What a huge list, thanks again for including my tuts :)
Dainis Graveris
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 23:32
To be honest I am amazed of your beautiful tutorials and how many you have them, because I know how much time takes to create something like that! Big respect!
Seal
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 02:47
I think the same! The tuts of Sixpacl are very detailed and easy to continue
Eren Mckay
Monday, September 21st, 2009 09:16
I’m in love with the number 6 – postcard form, number 16, number 47,49 and 50. Gorgeous and creative.
Gonna stumble this.
Now I have to find a way of creating my own gorgeous form :-D
Ajay
Monday, September 21st, 2009 12:32
Awesome collection, thanks for including our tutorial.
Jason Zuckerman
Monday, September 21st, 2009 21:08
You have to love superbly designed and yes simple contact forms. I continue to be in overwhelming awe in the resource you routinely assemble.
Tanuj Dave
Monday, December 14th, 2009 18:21
Above tutorial is really useful, thanks to given it.
John
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 16:36
Creating forms that look the same on all browsers can be a tricky affair. Thanks for sharing this post – you have provided a lot of different solutions to the problem at hand.
Lucio Boda
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 16:13
Thank you very much this is what i was waiting for the Formulary!
Shibby
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 23:57
Very good article!
Exactly what i was looking for
Yasin Yıldız
Thursday, November 4th, 2010 22:12
this is thank you. 1stwebdesigner
Roser
Friday, October 15th, 2010 23:44
You have to love superbly designed and yes simple contact forms. I continue to be in overwhelming awe in the resource you routinely assemble.
ThunderWolf
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 01:45
Thanks for these great scripts, a must have.
Cheers,
Mario
Orfebre Martin
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 00:58
Thank you very much this is what i was waiting for the Formulary!
njmehta
Friday, September 10th, 2010 16:38
I’ve seen all of these elsewhere on other sites. Sorry, nothing new here for me to thumb up.