I have not been able to find anything that will show (*) a user that a field is required. Currently I use a text element that is visible when the required field is focused. What are the rest of you doing?
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In my case i made the left border red and i saved that as a style. Maybe you can have a similar workaround.
Used in conjunction with the below to highlight required text boxes
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Thanks AliFarahat.
I haven’t thought of that one yet.
Would be interesting to see what the others would do.
I used an asterisk icon and made it really small, then put it in the upper left hand corner of any mandatory field.
I also made the submit or save button invisible unless those fields were not empty. “Setting the condition”.
I’ve done this as well but it can take a lot of time. It would be nice if the inputs had the function of doing with a setting. So far I like AliFarahat’s idea most. Any other ideas out there?
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Progressive disclosure. Fields that are “optional” can be captured later, so only capture stuff up front that you really have to. Does the user really need to enter that ? Or is it for you ?
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Small number of field that are required … Put it in the placeholder “Your Name (required)” … “mandatory” is a poor word.
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Large number of required fields … mark only the option ones “Your favorite TV show (optional)”
A red asterisk isn’t a great choice, as it has some readability and accessibility issues.
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Thanks NigelG
- I agree and do my development like that as far as possible but sometimes it is required to have optional fields.
- It’s also an option that I sometimes use but sometimes the input field needs to be small and there is spacing for the wording.
I agree, the reason for looking at this option is because some developers use * as a standard and a lot of people has become accustomed to the red *
Interesting to see what people do. So far AliFarahat is the winner for me.
I’d like to see some more creative ideas from people 