Questions about contactform plugin
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 11:50 pm
Many questions about plugins from me these days, I do hope I don't get on your nerves.
Also, I tend to look closely and see things like double exclamation marks and so on, please do not take that as complaining, just as reporting the behaviour - and I do not always know if actually the plugin is responsible for a particular behaviour, or the theme, or me.
My test installation, 2.01, Next theme:
http://efg-test.xf1.de/index.php?/pages ... tform.html
My contactform does display fields for name, e-mail, homepage and comment.
Name and comment are marked with a star, hence visibly mandatory - but e-mail seems mandatory too, but has no star.
However, the e-mail check behaves differently from the checks for name and comment: if I try to send a totally empty message, the message "fill out this field" (in German) appears next to the field name, while the screen scrolls up to that field (sadly, not to the label right above it, which gets cut off, so a user has to minimally scroll to see it).
Same if I put something into name only, then try to send -- "fill out this field" next to the comment field. However, after writing into that, and trying again to send, I get a red bar with: "Name, E-Mail und Nachricht dürfen nicht leer gelassen werden" ("...are not allowed to stay empty") no "fill out this field"-tooltip.
So, besides the fact that E-Mail does not have an asterisk, so the poor user has no chance to know it is mandatory, and besides the fact that the last error text calls for a text in Nachricht, whereas the field is actually labeled Kommentar instead of Nachricht: Why this difference in error handling?
Also, after successfully sending with the contactform, the form displays an empty (except an "ok-icon") green bar, like the blue bars on the form input page or the red "give-me-your-e-mail" bar. Other than those, which contain text, this bar has the text "your message has been sent!!" (yes, 2 exclamation marks) displayed below it, not inside the bar. Is this the intended behaviour?
And, is it intended that the page with this stuff (the one you see after successfully sending) also displays, above it, the full content of my static starting page? It is short in this test installation, but will become considerably longer.
Thanks for reading through this, thanks even more for helpful answers.
Regards,
Bernd
Also, I tend to look closely and see things like double exclamation marks and so on, please do not take that as complaining, just as reporting the behaviour - and I do not always know if actually the plugin is responsible for a particular behaviour, or the theme, or me.
My test installation, 2.01, Next theme:
http://efg-test.xf1.de/index.php?/pages ... tform.html
My contactform does display fields for name, e-mail, homepage and comment.
Name and comment are marked with a star, hence visibly mandatory - but e-mail seems mandatory too, but has no star.
However, the e-mail check behaves differently from the checks for name and comment: if I try to send a totally empty message, the message "fill out this field" (in German) appears next to the field name, while the screen scrolls up to that field (sadly, not to the label right above it, which gets cut off, so a user has to minimally scroll to see it).
Same if I put something into name only, then try to send -- "fill out this field" next to the comment field. However, after writing into that, and trying again to send, I get a red bar with: "Name, E-Mail und Nachricht dürfen nicht leer gelassen werden" ("...are not allowed to stay empty") no "fill out this field"-tooltip.
So, besides the fact that E-Mail does not have an asterisk, so the poor user has no chance to know it is mandatory, and besides the fact that the last error text calls for a text in Nachricht, whereas the field is actually labeled Kommentar instead of Nachricht: Why this difference in error handling?
Also, after successfully sending with the contactform, the form displays an empty (except an "ok-icon") green bar, like the blue bars on the form input page or the red "give-me-your-e-mail" bar. Other than those, which contain text, this bar has the text "your message has been sent!!" (yes, 2 exclamation marks) displayed below it, not inside the bar. Is this the intended behaviour?
And, is it intended that the page with this stuff (the one you see after successfully sending) also displays, above it, the full content of my static starting page? It is short in this test installation, but will become considerably longer.
Thanks for reading through this, thanks even more for helpful answers.
Regards,
Bernd