Buttons and boxes..?

[Nathan]

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9186/41057195yo2.jpg

antman designed my logo at http://killmyip.com
And I would really like those buttons (The "Browse" button, and the "check" boxes) the way that they are in that picture. Could someone please help me find out how to do this? I have been googling for quite a while, and am still as ignorant as when I started.

Antman had this to say when I asked him for them:

Unforunately substituting the buttons aren't as easy as that as they are inbuilt with the script. A few code changes [I don't know how] would be needed to change the images.

If anyone desires to be paid for their help, I suppose we could work something out.

Sorry if I am not giving you enough details here, but basically, I just want the buttons in that picture :P

Thanks,
- Matt

 

[cef]

Replacing checkboxes and radio buttons with alternate images is not very easy to do reliably, and requires Javascript. There are a few online demos and projects that show how to do this, but they all come with lots of warnings, several quirks, and a slew of browser incompatibility issues.

If you're willing to forego real form controls completely, the job gets a little easier because you can rewrite the functionality of the controls in Javascript, and just toggle images in DIVs when they're clicked on. You'll also have to manually track what is and isn't clicked, and build and submit the form query (be it in POST or GET form) by hand.

If you go this latter route you should place an alternate form on the page which works without Javascript which you can then hide programatically when the page loads.

 

[Nathan]

Hmmm, I suppose this is not worth it then? I would REALLY like to do this, but it sounds like a pain the the butt...

 

[cef]

Well, now that I've given the "politically correct" answer I'll give a more realistic answer that many "purists" might not like.

For certain types of sites it's perfectly fine to require javascript and simply fail to function correctly in its absence. If you don't care about non-javascript users (and in your case I'd say probably all your users have it anyhow), it does become easier.

Yeah, rewriting form controls in Javascript is a bit of a pain in the butt, but it's very doable. There are plenty of far far hairier things in javscript than that.

Personally, I'd say go for it.

 

[Nathan]

Personally, I'd say go for it.

I am taking a class on Javascript in a couple months... honestly. But I still have no idea how to do this myself yet. Any suggestions from the wonderful NamePros community?