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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Improving the appearance


If you've tried styling web forms with CSS, then you've probably discovered that some form elements, such as text inputs and buttons, are pretty easy to style. There are a few quirks, but once you get those figured out, you can get those form elements to look just about any way you'd like. Other form elements, however, are much more stubborn and don't respond much, if at all, to CSS styles. It's so frustrating to design a lovely form only to realize that it's technically impossible.

These troublesome form elements are as follows:

  • <select>

  • <input type="file">

  • <input type="checkbox">

  • <input type="radio">

Not only are these four form elements impossible to style with CSS, but they also look radically different in different browsers and operating systems, leaving us with little control over the appearance of our form. Let's see how Lutrasoft's Fancyform plugin can help us out.

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Natalie Maclees

contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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