Expanding field size in shortcode forms AND field sort order in shortcode forms

  • Thanks for this plugin. I think if I can get a couple of problems fixed, I will be very happy with this functionality.

    Problem 1: I need to expand the field size to something long enough to allow people to enter the data they will want to enter. I’ve tried #input { size=200; } and lots of other things and none have worked. How can I identify the input and textarea elements?

    Problem 2: The fields in the form seem to be sorted in the order I created them rather than in the order I put them in on the Data tab. Is this a bug? How can I get the fields sorted the way they need to be without deleting all the fields and starting over? (I could do this for the two forms I need know, but every time I need a new shortcode form I would have to delete all the pre-existing fields and then re-create them along with the fields I need on the new form.) So how can I order fields properly?

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  • Thread Starter Katharine

    (@valentk)

    I’ve resolved both these problems. The solutions I came up with are:

    1) To expand field size, I added the following to custom CSS in my theme. I also added a background color, so I made the width 100% rather than just large enough to allow users to enter data without losing sight of part of it.

    textarea, select, input[type=”text”], input[type=”password”], input[type=”email”], input[type=”color”], input[type=”date”], input[type=”datetime”], input[type=”datetime-local”], input[type=”month”], input[type=”number”], input[type=”range”], input[type=”search”], input[type=”tel”], input[type=”time”], input[type=”url”], input[type=”week”] {
    width:100%;
    }

    2) I never did figure why my three forms, displayed in the Shortcode Forms tab, display the fields I created in three different orders. However, the procedure I came up with to resolve the issue is: Check fields that are in the right order. When the next field is out of order, save. Go back to the tab and find the field that should be next. Check it and continue s long as succeeding fields are in the right order. When the next field is out of order, save and then go back to the tab. And so forth.

    Plugin Contributor MariaKravchenko

    (@mariakravchenko)

    Hello.

    1. Our text input fields are Longtext of mysql
    LONGTEXT | 4,294,967,295 (232?1) bytes = 4 GiB

    2. You could drag and drop attributes in Shortcode forms tab – https://screencast.com/t/iv8FAMobybs

    Regards.

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