{"id":759,"date":"2009-05-06T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/759"},"modified":"2009-05-06T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T12:48:15","slug":"field-level-help-or-hindrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/759","title":{"rendered":"Field level help &#8212; or hindrance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image.png\" width=\"422\" height=\"316\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image1.png\" width=\"389\" height=\"182\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I found the technique intriguing, but troubling in implementation. The problem I had in particular the way it completely obscured the content underneath each field (there was help for every field). I would have liked if it had only covered up the fields <strong>below<\/strong> the active field with a mostly opaque help box. But, as it was it would cover a field I just entered.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there was the auto tabbing. Stop that. I accidentally tabbed through the month field, and then couldn\u2019t tab BACK into the month field because of broken logic in the \u201cday\u201d field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the technique intriguing, but troubling in implementation. The problem I had in particular the way it completely obscured the content underneath each field (there was help for every field). I would have liked if it had only covered up the fields below the active field with a mostly opaque help box. But, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-cf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":492,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/492","url_meta":{"origin":759,"position":0},"title":"Your data submission contains illegal characters","date":"August 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Slap. From Shutterfly. I had just typed the name of a project to save in a text field and pressed the \"save\" button. There were no mention of any characters I couldn't use. 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