A matter of style
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sorry? i have never been fond of using colons in forms. i think it get messier and clutters things up when for the most party, all my textboxes have a space between the header and it is clearly defined by the structure more than some colon.
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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Mark Nischalke wrote:
I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them.
If you're using a C syntax like language, then the only thing you need to worry about is when he tries to remove your semi-colons.
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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Show him, oh, I don't know, just about every dialog in Windows!
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Show him, oh, I don't know, just about every dialog in Windows!
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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Labels on labels get colons labels on actionable elements do not. However, I try to be consistent. Personally, instead of a colon I prefer to use strong.
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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I always have used colons after the labels... Just my preference. I resisted any anatomical wise-cracks (it was tough). ;)
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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For me, it depends upon the layout. If the label is above the control it applies to, I don't use a colon. If the label is to the left of the control, I use a colon. I stick to one layout in a given application (labels above or labels left). I don't know where I got this convention. Now that's just scary :sigh:.
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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I've always been lavish in my use of separators for clarity, and the colon was a favorite. But since having one-third of my colon removed I've become much more conservation minded, switching instead to semi-colons.
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So he's a colon control freak? X| :laugh:
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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Your app must have nothing to improve on to notice such things... :-D I must admit I can be meticulous in how my app looks.
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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If it is a localized app the developer might want to leave the colons out - something else might be more appropriate for other languages.
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Big Daddy Farang wrote:
Did your CIO say why not to use colons? Seems a bit drastic.
No reason given. Guess its just a means of exercising control where he can and where he shouldn't be.
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
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Colons. (Your CIO bored?)
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
only two letters away from being an asset
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So whats the consensus around here? When creating an app do you place a colon after your labels or not? i.e. Customer Name: [label] or Customer Name [label] I've always used a colon but have recently been told by our CIO to not use them. I think it just makes everything bleed together and looks terrible.
only two letters away from being an asset
I personally think using a colon is preferable, but if it's not allowed, at the very least I think a good way to delineate the title from the label is to Bold the title and leave the label normal. At least then, you have clear separation.
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Sounds like he's just pissing on everything to mark his territory. Common behavior for corporate climbers. To a man, that type of person should be fired with extreme prejudice.
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One must be able to control ones colon.
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This was discussed here in the recent past but I have no idea what the consensus was if any. So here's YAP. (Yet another opinion.) There needs to be some form of visual separation between the "Customer Name" etc. and the Values. If the values are also labels, it might be done with colons or spacing. If the values are in text boxes or similar, the colons would not be extraneous. Did your CIO say why not to use colons? Seems a bit drastic. I mean, where would be without our colons? :laugh: Edit: struck not :-O
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Big Daddy Farang wrote:
So here's YAP. (Yet another opinion.)
Wouldn't that be YAO? :) I prefer colons, and right justified, so the label is almost touching the control (appropriate whitespace). When I was first introduced to this, I didn't like it, but our user testing showed most people are able to track from label to control better with less space between label and control (on forms with many label/textbox combinations, so not much vertical space between each element, and very heavy on text). --G
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If it is a localized app the developer might want to leave the colons out - something else might be more appropriate for other languages.
Idaho Edokpayi
If localization is an issue the colon just becomes another thing to add to the list of locale-specific values... For me, the decision is usually based on the sort of form/page/etc. I am writing. If it is an extraneous screen element (i.e. not going to be found in any container called "main_content" or some such) it very likely won't get a colon because it won't be terribly important that the user want to fill it in RIGHT NOW. A good example would be the "Search" box at the top of this reply form: the current display's main purpose is to capture my reply, so the label for the search box is there to announce its presence and let me know that particular cluster of controls is how I find something. On the other hand, the controls for actually filling out my reply all have labels followed by colons, because they are part of the main purpose of the page and instructing my on what information I need to provide where, similar to forms throughout the ages. You could always use the "other" major format for labeling form fields and stick everything in a heavily-bordered table with weird superscript labels as on a US tax form and then ask which is better...
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Big Daddy Farang wrote:
So here's YAP. (Yet another opinion.)
Wouldn't that be YAO? :) I prefer colons, and right justified, so the label is almost touching the control (appropriate whitespace). When I was first introduced to this, I didn't like it, but our user testing showed most people are able to track from label to control better with less space between label and control (on forms with many label/textbox combinations, so not much vertical space between each element, and very heavy on text). --G
Good catch, you are correct. I guess I must have been thinking about opossums. ;P
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