registration and contact forms have black asterisks. very annoying.
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registration and contact forms have black asterisks. very annoying.
Not a bug.
Those are symbols denoting "required field". You can remove the asterisk via the language file.
I wanted RED just like the RED text outside of the form fields. * Required FieldQuote:
Originally Posted by DrByte
But then in the form field there a grayish barely visible *
Follow?
in your css:
Code:::placeholder {
color: #FF0000;
}
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/.../::placeholder
Could not find that. But did find this in english.phpQuote:
Originally Posted by carlwhat
Code:define('FORM_REQUIRED_INFORMATION', '* Required information');
define('ENTRY_REQUIRED_SYMBOL', '*'); where is the color strribute?
define('TEXT_FIELD_REQUIRED', ' <span class="alert">*</span>');
The HTML placeholder attribute is only styled/colored via CSS.
If you want to remove the placeholder and put text outside of the field, be aware that it will require more screen space so you will need to address layouts for mobile screen sizes. You can put the text outside by manually editing the template and reworking all of those form fields.
The move to using the modern placeholder approach was done a few versions back. You could use some much older templates as a reference for how to put the "field is required" text outside the field, but will have to work on styling it yourself because there wasn't much in those older templates for styling it for mobile devices at that time.
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Originally Posted by DrByte
Im not interested in relocating anything. All I want is the placeholder color to match the red footnote. Using a red footnote reminder to reference something that is a different color, say green for the sake of argument, makes no sense. Either make them both black or both red. But have them two different colors makes no sense. At least make the placeholder bold black instead of a light gray.
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Have you even tried adding the css as carlwhat suggested?
Quote:
Originally Posted by dbltoe
He did not suggest adding it. He showed a string that I searched for in all of the css files, to adjust the color.
So if he is suggesting that I add this, it would have been more useful if he said so, and also which css file.
Ideally, a red asterisk near the field name (see UPS photo above) would be more intuitive to the user than a tiny gray placeholder. On my screen, its so small that it looks more like a booger than a character.
If this category (bugs) is a place to berate possible bug reporters with abrupt thread closures, I wish you luck finding reporters who will report possible bugs. I know I have learned my lesson to post here again.
Just noticed that the registration page has a "single" asterisk next to country.......which is the way I want it to be.
All the rest have faded asterisks as place holders. Doesnt seem odd that there is a single red asterisk? Bug?
If it walks like a duck......
asterisk? never tells what asterisk says, maybe a password!Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelpadre
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Form help what as need and not just asterisks...
If it whines like a karen...
The grey placeholder text in the form field is dealt with by the browser default for placeholder text, you override it by adding css to the stylesheet
In most browsers, the appearance of placeholder text is a translucent or light gray color by default.
Some browsers (such as Firefox) set the default opacity of placeholders to something less than 100%.
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Originally Posted by pixelpadre
I meant to say that the registration page has a single RED * for the Country field, and that none of the other field asterisks are red on the registration page.
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Originally Posted by carlwhat
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Originally Posted by dbltoe
please do not put words in my mouth. if you are unclear as to what i (or any poster) is saying, i would suggest asking nicely for some clarification.Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelpadre
i am not sure what your end goal is here: to solve said problem (and perhaps learn something in the process), or to somehow prove yourself right or what. it's your call.
css can be very confusing, and there are other forum members far more versed in it than i. but your issue is not a big issue.
you can either add the code above to a css script that gets loaded on your account page creation, or create a new stylesheet for all of your customizations, as indicated here:
https://docs.zen-cart.com/dev/plugin...#stylesheetcss
if you do not know how to create a custom stylesheet, perhaps someone else can help you with that.
assuming you can get to the point of understanding a little bit of css, and add the css that i spent some time researching for you, your asterisks would then be red.