Adding Objects to a Form

You can add any standard form objects to a form, including single- and multiple-line text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, scrolling lists, and drop-down lists.

You add objects to a form using the Form toolbar. This toolbar appears when you first create the form, or you can open the toolbar from the View menu by choosing, Form Tools.

Arrange and align the fields, check boxes, and other objects in a form, just as you would arrange objects in a Layout area, table, or text box. You must place form objects inside a form to make them work as part of the form. If you don’t place form objects inside a form, a red warning icon appears in the form object.

To minimize the HTML generated by a Layout Region form, align its objects using the options on the Multi-Object panel or organize the objects in tables or text boxes. See Aligning and Distributing Objects, Embedding Objects in a Text Box, and Adding Text and Pictures to Cells.

Browsers display form objects differently, so test your form on all the browsers and platforms you plan to support.

If you publish pages containing forms using the HTML 4.01 output option, the forms may not display properly in the browser and the form objects display warning icons in Page view.