i know how to make a custom search box in adobe fireworks now I need to know how to code it into my website .... you know like how the facebook sign up page has the text inside the field and it goes away after you type one letter that's what I'm trying to do
That is called a placeholder, and it's html, not css. <label for="search">Find what you're looking for:</label> <input type="text" name="search" id="search" placeholder="Type what you want to find here"> Code (markup):
so I can use that as my login?? I was trying to do the toggle like the box its self say username then when u type a letter the text goes away and they type they name I can read code but writing is a different story
Yes, that's a placeholder. However, a placeholder is not a replacement for a label. Putting "username" as a placeholder is not the right use of a placeholder.
What I was just about to go into a big long diatribe about -- that might appeal to the artsy fartsy types dicking around in a paint program, but it has no damned place on a website if you care about accessibility. Hence why you should have a LABEL and NOT pull the stupid hide/show artsy fartsy bull. You've got an entire screen to play with, if you can't make room for a label there's something WRONG. Placeholder (or it's scripttard equivalent) fall squarely into "false simplicity" for a reason, specifically "Loss of context": http://baymard.com/blog/false-simplicity Of course you're goofing around in Fireworks under the delusion it has anything to do with web design or development, so you've hobbled yourself horribly before you've even laid down a single line of code. I would suggest learning HTML, learning CSS, and like most Adobe products make microwave art out of it's DVD's and use the manuals to help get the kindling started in the wood stove. Pretty much if you are screwing around drawing pretty pictures before you even have working semantic markup and a proper working CSS layout, you've put the cart before the horse and are dooming yourself to failure; no matter how many artsy fartsy types who dick around in Fireworks, Photoshop or Illustrator are under the delusion that any of that has jack-all to do with "design".