Changing width of a button

[Bram Klootwijk]

Hi All,

how can i change the width of a button? There are properties for the text like p_web.site.SaveButton.TextValue, but i want to make a button widther to fit the text.....


Any help?

Greetings,
Bram

[Alan Telford]

Bram,

I haven't done this myself, but I've seen others do it.
Go to your WebServer procedure, choose extensions, select "Net Talk ..." object, Settings, Buttons.

Here is the list of predefined buttons and styles.
Under properties each button has a "Button Class". Most of the buttons are set by default to use 'MainButton' or 'SmallButton'.

This refers to styles in your WEB\STYLES\* folder.
Find the style here e.g.
.MainButton {
  width: 80px;
  height: 26px;
  margin: 3px 1px;
  font-family: Tahoma, Verdana,  Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 11px;
  cursor: pointer;
  padding: 0px;
}

and then alter the width/height.
Note - I suggest you create a new button class.
LargeButton, XLButton, XXLbutton, with each class having different width/height.

There may be other ways as well.
Regards,
Alan

[Bram Klootwijk]

Hi Alan,

thanx for the fast support! I hoped there was an easy way to change them at run-time, but i'll try it this way....

Cheers,
Bram

[Bram Klootwijk]

Hi Alan,

tried to change the buttonclass on a webform to 'Smallbutton' (i want that class for the save and cancel-buttons for 1 form, not for all), but the generated form /html still reflects to 'Mainbutton' when viewing the source-code in the IE browser. Are the classes not 'overridden' in the Netwebform settings (tab CSS Classes)?

Greetings,
Bram

[Alan Telford]

If adding a button onto a form:
  set Type = 'Display'
Then on settings tab:
 

• Button = checked

  Type = 'Button'
  Name = 'somename_btn'
  Text = 'what you want to display on button'
  CSS Class = 'SmallButton'    <----- This works here

On a BROWSE, when adding fields, if you select
   TYPE=BUTTON, then choose
   Action = 'Other'
and you will get the same options for CSS Class.

Alan

[Bram Klootwijk]

Hi Alan,

yes, you're right. But the class does not work for the genreated "Save" , "Cancel" buttons. I misused these buttons to do some work after adding a record. I used your advice to place the buttons in the form and added code to the embed "Add Server Side Code Here".

Greetings,
Bram