Form Border?, how can i make a form border Options

[Kurenai]

I have already made the e-mail form for my page, but i wanted to add a box around it to make it distinctive from the other text. but i don't know how to. this is the URL for the page http://www.geocities.com/teammollusk/join.html . any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Corey Bryant]

Form layout using CSS might help out some.

[Kurenai]

I can’t use java or anything besides html. I have dial up so I can’t spend let my internet be on for an extra 30 minutes to let something load. If there is anything in html format I could use that. Thank you.

[Peter1968]

I can’t use java or anything besides html. I have dial up so I can’t spend let my internet be on for an extra 30 minutes to let something load. If there is anything in html format I could use that. Thank you.

You need to bone up on what CSS is. http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

99.999% of the websites you'll ever visit use CSS. It's merely plain text.

[Christian J]

Another alternative might be to use the FIELDSET element, which happens to produce a border in addition to adding structure to a form.

[Kurenai]

Another alternative might be to use the FIELDSET element, which happens to produce a border in addition to adding structure to a form.

Thank you so much, something as simple as this was all I needed. Again thank you.

[Brian Chandler]

Another alternative might be to use the FIELDSET element, which happens to produce a border in addition to adding structure to a form.

Thank you so much, something as simple as this was all I needed. Again thank you.

Yes, but if you want a border around the whole form, the FIELDSET element is no use (unless you abuse it!) The FIELDSET is supposed to group form elements into sets; it's also nowhere guaranteed that it puts a border - a different browser might show the fieldset groups in different colours, or separated by rules.

If you need to put a border on a form element, the simplest way is just to include in the <form ...> element a style declaration of the following type:

style="border: solid 2px #40a0c0"

This will give you a blue-green border of width 2 pixels. For more details, google for 'CSS style border', and read the w3c page. You can represent colours with names and things, but personally I find RGB values easier. (40 means 25% red, a0 means 10/16 green, and c0 75% blue)

[Peter1968]

Yes, but if you want a border around the whole form, the FIELDSET element is no use (unless you abuse it!)

That's precisely what the OP has done, Brian.

[Brian Chandler]

Yes, but if you want a border around the whole form, the FIELDSET element is no use (unless you abuse it!)

That's precisely what the OP has done, Brian.

Hmm, you mean:

<centert><fieldset><form method=post action="http://geocities.yahoo.com/forms?login=teammollusk"...

a) What's "centert", when it's at home?

b) I think Christian meant to put the <fieldset> _inside_ the form, which is then probably syntactically correct. But that doesn't affect my point that this too is an abuse of "fieldset"...

[stjepan]

I made my two sites when on dial up...

[pandy]

Yeah, why should a site take longer to render because of CSS? CSS should make it faster.

[Peter1968]

The OP wasn't aware of what CSS is, so the ignorance is understandable.