Hi Didier,

Thank you for the compliments and glad you are enjoying Form2Content.

The DEMO actually doesn't use a submission form override. It's the native form displayed in a Yootheme template. You can read more about creating your custom form layout here: https://documentation.form2content.com/f2c-front-end/submission-form-templating

Hope this helps!
Regards,
Patrick

Thanks Patrick,
I had read this before asking my question, and I managed to change the layout of the buttons.
But my (Joomlashack) template comes wit some nice buttons, form controls etc. and I should like to use them.
I am not a very experienced code writer so some detailed documentation on how to use the different FC2 fields and actions in one’s own form would be nice?
Didier.

Hi Didier,

I understand your question. Our "problem" is that there are many front-end CSS frameworks. Our default is build for Joomla (i.e. bootstrap) and I often use the Protostar template for my front-end management area. It's simple, clean and works with all extensions. It also makes the user realise they are in a management area.

At the moment the submission form template has limited influence on how the form elements are generated. You can use Jlayout override for the form fields but the buttons are as is. What's probably doable is to copy paste your button CSS and add it to the F2C button class (which is bootstrap "btn" ) via custom.css.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Patrick

Thanks Patrick
My template also use bootstrap, so I’ll experiment but your remark “At the moment the submission form template has limited influence on how the form elements are generated” does not give me much hope.
Anyway, I remain convinced that a nice example on how to enhance the submission form, eg as in your demo and this starting from standard Joomla (bootstrap) really would be a very great help.
Merry Christmas
Didier.

Hi Didier,

I don't understand your "Example"question?? How can I write example documentation when I don't use the submission form override and yet the form looks good!? It's because I used a Joomla template that understands the bootstrap code and makes it look nice... in other words, I didn't do anything.

As for the customization. I don't understand "it doesn't give you hope". We support native Joomla JLayout override for the form elements, you can add all the css/html you want via the submission form override. The only thing you can't do is change the button class which is set to .btn, the Joomla standard (as my Yootheme template shows which does make the buttons lok nice).

Last, we have the feature to generate an example (default) submission form override. After generating it's a matter of changing some html/layout to your own wishes, all the place markers (template parameters) are already in it.

Perhaps creating documentation for Jlayout of form element might be useful and help you not having to search for it in the Joomla documentation but that I believe is not your question.

Have a good Christmas too!

Regards, Patrick

Well Patrick, what I wrote above ( “I am not a very experienced code writer”) can explain a lot ? So I’ll experiment and I’m confident I will find a way to make the form nicer.
Didier.