Hi Guys,
I'm building some forms for a website. This isn't a programming question, it's a presentation question.
There are fields that are required, and some that are not. When the form is submitted, if certain data is not acceptable, the form will be presented again, with all the data the user entered, but certain fields will be flagged. I'm trying to decide how I flag these fields for an error.
For instance, many of the forms require a title.
Right now, if you submit a form without a title, it will error, and you will see something like
title *required*
The title style doesn't change, but the *required* is in red.
However, it looks kind of bloated when there are a lot of errors. Lots of *required* everywhere. I was thinking it might be better just to change the font of the label to red and put astericks around it
like
title > *title* (in red).
What would you do? I just want to bring attention to each form field that there is an error and the current submission is not acceptable.
I'm building some forms for a website. This isn't a programming question, it's a presentation question.
There are fields that are required, and some that are not. When the form is submitted, if certain data is not acceptable, the form will be presented again, with all the data the user entered, but certain fields will be flagged. I'm trying to decide how I flag these fields for an error.
For instance, many of the forms require a title.
Right now, if you submit a form without a title, it will error, and you will see something like
title *required*
The title style doesn't change, but the *required* is in red.
However, it looks kind of bloated when there are a lot of errors. Lots of *required* everywhere. I was thinking it might be better just to change the font of the label to red and put astericks around it
like
title > *title* (in red).
What would you do? I just want to bring attention to each form field that there is an error and the current submission is not acceptable.
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