

To prevent users from changing the contents of a control, select the Read-only check box.

Unlike a default value, placeholder text is not supported in browser-compatible form templates. Unlike a default value, which appears as regular text inside a control, placeholder text always appears dimmed. Placeholder text is never saved as data in the form (.xml) file. However, placeholder text is different from default values in the following three ways: Like a default value, placeholder text appears inside a text-entry control when a user first opens a form. For example, if you have a preferred way in which you want users to fill out the rich text box, you can use placeholder text to provide instructions. If you want to provide guidance to your users about what data to enter into the rich text box, you can type instructional text in the Placeholder box. Certain settings are not supported in browser-compatible form templates, such as enabling linked images in rich text boxes. You can specify that users can embed images in the form, which saves the actual image data in the underlying form (.xml) file, or link images, which saves a hyperlink reference to the image in the.
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Enabling character formatting in rich text boxes is not supported in browser-compatible form templates.īy default, the Full rich text (images, tables, etc.) check box is selected in the Rich Text Box Properties dialog box so that users can insert pictures and tables inside the rich text box. If you want to prevent users from doing this, clear the Character formatting check box. Enabling paragraph breaks in rich text boxes is not supported in browser-compatible form templates.īy default, character formatting is enabled for rich text boxes so that users can format the text that they type into the rich text box. If you want to prevent users from doing this, clear the Paragraph breaks check box. For example, if you need part numbers to be entered in a specific format - three numbers, then a dash, and then two more numbers - you can use data validation to ensure that users conform to this pattern.īy default, paragraph breaks are enabled for rich text boxes so that users can type paragraphs of information into the rich text box. Default values are different from placeholder text (which is described later in this article) in that they are always saved as data in the form (.xml) file.Ĭlick Data Validation to specify data validation rules for the control. You can also use the value of another field in the data source as the default value for a control. If you want default text to appear inside a control when a user first opens the form, you can type that text in the Value box. If you need to bind a rich text box to a different field, right-click the rich text box, and then click Change Binding on the shortcut menu. Note: Changing the field name does not change the binding between a rich text box and field in the data source.
