Set Web form control properties

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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  1. Double-click the submit button on your Web form.
  2. Under Button properties, click Submit.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • To label the button "Submit," select the Button text is same as button type box.
    • To rename the button, clear the Button text is same as button type check box, and then type the new name in the Button text box.
  4. To select your method of data retrieval, click Form Properties, and then select the options that you want.

ShowTextbox

  1. Double-click the textbox on your Web form.
  2. In the Default text box, type your default text.
  3. In the Number of characters allowed box, enter the maximum number of characters that visitors will be allowed to type in the text box.
  4. If visitors’ responses will be sensitive in nature (such as passwords), select the Hide sensitive text with asterisks box.
  5. Under Data processing, in the Return data with this label box, type the label you want associated with the data you receive from this control.

ShowReset button

  1. Double-click the reset button on your Web form.
  2. Under Button properties, click Reset.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • To label the button "Reset," select the Button text is same as button type box.
    • To rename the button, clear the Button text is same as button type check box, and then type a name in the Button text box.

ShowText area

  1. Double-click the text area on your Web form.
  2. In the Default text box, type your default text.
  3. Under Data processing, in the Return data with this label box, type the label you want associated with the data that you receive from this control.

ShowList box

  1. Double-click the list box on your Web form.
  2. Under Data processing, locate the Return data with this label box and type the label you want associated with the data you receive from this control.
  3. Click Add to add items to the list box.
  4. Type the name of the item. The item will appear inside the list box with this name.
  5. Under Show item as, click Selected if you want this item to appear selected in the list box.
  6. If you want the form data you receive to be different from the item text inside the list box, clear the Item value is same as item text check box.
  7. In the Item value box, type a value for the list box.
  8. Click OK.
  9. To let Web site visitors select more than one item at a time from the list box, under Appearance, select the User can select more than one item check box.

ShowGroup of option buttons

  1. Double-click the first option button in a group (not its label) on your Web form.
  2. Under Appearance, click Selected if you want this option button to appear selected.
  3. In the Return data with this label box, type the label you want associated with the data you receive from this group of option buttons.
  4. In the Option button value box, type the value you want to receive if this control is selected. This is your form data.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 for all option buttons in the group.
  7. Make sure that the label you specified in step 3 for the Return data with this label box is the same for all option buttons in the group.

ShowCheckbox

  1. Double-click the checkbox (not its label) on your Web form.
  2. Under Appearance, click Selected if you want this checkbox to appear selected.
  3. Under Data processing, in the two boxes Return data with this label and Checkbox value, specify how you want form data to be processed and returned to you.
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