Comments on: Styling Drupal Buttons For Usability http://www.scribbledesigns.co.uk/2007/02/20/styling-drupal-buttons-for-usability/ Web Design in Northern Ireland. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:34:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gerard McGarry http://www.scribbledesigns.co.uk/2007/02/20/styling-drupal-buttons-for-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-7380 Gerard McGarry Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:27:32 +0000 http://www.scribbledesigns.co.uk/2007/02/20/styling-drupal-buttons-for-usability/#comment-7380 Mark: Thanks for your comment. I don't think there's any technical reason that a submit button wouldn't work in a fieldset - I'm fairly sure I've done it before without issue! Mark: Thanks for your comment. I don’t think there’s any technical reason that a submit button wouldn’t work in a fieldset – I’m fairly sure I’ve done it before without issue!

]]> By: Mark Gibbens http://www.scribbledesigns.co.uk/2007/02/20/styling-drupal-buttons-for-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-7204 Mark Gibbens Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:53:59 +0000 http://www.scribbledesigns.co.uk/2007/02/20/styling-drupal-buttons-for-usability/#comment-7204 I like this idea a lot :) Regarding accessibility, it's OK to use colour to convey meaning, as long as you can provide an equivalent for visually impaired users. A quick bit of research around colour-blindness could help avoid any bad colour combinations, and making some modifications to Drupal at theme level could provide the right semantic info for anyone that's not getting the visual CSS. I've never done this before, but are you allowed to put submit buttons inside fieldsets? If that's not breaking the spec, you could use two fieldsets to enclose the submit buttons - one called, for example, "Save" for the Preview and Submit buttons, and the other called "Delete" for the Delete button. After that, it shouldn't be too hard to style it back up to the visual appearance of urlgreyhot's example. I like this idea a lot :)

Regarding accessibility, it’s OK to use colour to convey meaning, as long as you can provide an equivalent for visually impaired users. A quick bit of research around colour-blindness could help avoid any bad colour combinations, and making some modifications to Drupal at theme level could provide the right semantic info for anyone that’s not getting the visual CSS.

I’ve never done this before, but are you allowed to put submit buttons inside fieldsets?

If that’s not breaking the spec, you could use two fieldsets to enclose the submit buttons – one called, for example, “Save” for the Preview and Submit buttons, and the other called “Delete” for the Delete button.

After that, it shouldn’t be too hard to style it back up to the visual appearance of urlgreyhot’s example.

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