Form Controls

This chapter describes the MX Widgets 3 features which are designed to improve usability by adding dynamic elements to HTML forms. These features are included in the MX Kollection 3 bundle and will be useful to any web programmer.

These form controls improve the appearance of user interfaces and make the process of filling in certain forms faster. They allow complex behaviors.

Note: The MX Widgets controls use JavaScript to achieve there functions, and as such, they will not work on browsers with no Java / JavaScript support, or with support disabled. Also, the control do not function properly on the Opera 7.5 browser.

There are 13 widgets included in the bundle, and each one of them will be presented in detail in the following sections.

Contents

Masked Text Field

Numeric Text Field

Smart Date

Autocomplete Text Field

Date Picker

Restricted Textarea

Editable Drop-down

Dependent Drop-down

Multi-field Drop-down

Comma-separated Checkboxes

Comma-separated Menu

Comma-separated Selector

List Sorter