Preview Before Submit: Ability to apply CSS styles to the Entries

  • Marfieldcom
    Asked on June 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM

    I'm thrilled to find Preview Before Submit, but

    1. I can't add it if I already have a Payment widget.

    2. I would like to be able to control the style of entries shown:

    • display:none (especially for the form field labels)

    • backgrounds

    • font-family

    • font-weight

    • font-style

    • font-variant

    • font-size

    • text-align

    • text-color

    • text-decoration

    • text-indent

    • text-transformation

    • line-height

    • letter-spacing

    • word-spacing

    • vertical-align

    • tables

    • border

    • margin

    • padding

    • display

    • position

    • float

    Basically, all CSS properties.

    It doesn't look like I have any control over that in Preview Before Submit.

    I see How to Save Forms to Continue Later but maybe I'm looking for more of a multi-page wizard.

    I also love that we have the option to include/exclude/style fields in the notification/autoresponder emails. I would love to be able to drag form field variables into a box on my existing form and style them.

    Thoughts?

     

     

  • Jeanette JotForm Support
    Replied on June 24, 2015 at 12:20 PM

    It seems you have several unrelated questions. On regards to the Preview Before submit app, I've opened a ticket with this request.

    On regards to this comment:

    I would love to be able to drag form field variables into a box on my existing form and style them.

    You can certainly style form fields, please check this section :

    http://www.jotform.com/help/300-Form-Designer-Tutorial-Let-s-create-fantastic-forms-

     

  • Marfieldcom
    Replied on June 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM

    Form Designer is great for the original form, but I was looking for a way to drag the form field variables like I can on the autoresponder/notification emails, and style them inside the form.

    I was able to copy the form field variables from the autoresponder, paste them into Notepad, then paste them into a Text area on my form, then style them with HTML.

    The form instantly shows the values of each entry in the text area.

    http://www.jotform.com//?formID=51684382304960

    Preview Before Submit: Ability to apply CSS styles to the Entries Image 1 Screenshot 20

    It would be nice to have the option to pick the merge fields from the toolbar in either the Preview Before Submit or a new similar widget. I'd call it Preview Pane but I'm not the developer. :-) Cheers!

     

  • Mike_G JotForm Support
    Replied on June 24, 2015 at 4:00 PM

    You can try this workaround to add styles on the Preview Before Submit Widget by using the HTML Source Editor Available on the Text Area. I assume you only want to have the Text Area to be shown when the form is viewed before submission. 

    Preview Before Submit: Ability to apply CSS styles to the Entries Image 1 Screenshot 40

    To exclude the other text field when you Preview before submission, you can:

    Preview Before Submit: Ability to apply CSS styles to the Entries Image 2 Screenshot 51

    As for the result: 

    Preview Before Submit: Ability to apply CSS styles to the Entries Image 3 Screenshot 62

    I hope this helps. However, if this is not what you really want to happen, kindly give us more details and we will be glad to help you. Thank you. 

  • swiftonline
    Replied on May 20, 2016 at 7:02 AM

    I'm not sure I understand this - I want to do the exact same thing, ie. have a preview before submit where I can show all the answered fields (will use the hide feature in the widget) and format using the HTML source editor - so do I simply add a text area to my form and that will automatically update with the answers that are shown on the form when the preview button is used??  Not following - sorry!
  • Elton Support Team Lead
    Replied on May 20, 2016 at 9:15 AM

    @swiftonline

    We will answer your question on a separate thread here https://www.jotform.com/answers/843403.