Adding some colour

this is NOT a form Cornsilk is a really nice, neutral colour ... but you can do much more to make your forms fit the look of your site. And it's as simple as making a few tiny changes to the basic form HTML code.

Take a look at your own form code, and near the top you'll see the following line:

The table background colour (bgcolor="#999999") is that washed-out grey border, and the table row background (bgcolor="cornsilk") is that ... cornsilk colour.

Guess what happens if you change the table background to green and the table row background to yellow?

And if you wanted a different font colour, edit any line with
<font face="verdana ...." to begin <font color="blue" face="verdana ....

No doubt you can work out the rest for yourself.

Anything else I can do?

Yes - but only by using style commands in your form. Unfortunately, Netscape version 4 does not support these styles, but anyone with Internet Explorer should see the effects. There is an example below - fill out a few of the form spaces to see what can be done.

You can view the source of this page to see exactly how this example above was coded, or you can view a plain text file with just the important bits since that is a lot simpler and easier to recycle into your own pages.

	About This What is this about? Why is it here? Who is behind it?
	The Basics What is a form? What does it do? Why doesn't it work?
	Colours in Forms Tired of 'cornsilk'? How to add colour to your forms.
	Making Changes Changing the Subject. Sending your visitors to a special page after they fill out the form.
	Validation How to make sure your visitors fill in the blanks.
	Power Stuff How to send a copy of the form to the sender, to other people, and more ...

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