Showing posts with label HTML buttons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTML buttons. Show all posts

Monday, July 29, 2013

Where have all the buttons gone?

Oracle's Apex product Apex.oracle.com allows a web page developer to place buttons in pre-defined locations within an Apex page region.  As a developer, one is faced with a pull-down menu displaying about a dozen choices. I haven't used Apex enough to easily pick the right location the first time.  I usually pick something that looks right, display the page, and take another try or two to get it right.

I need a cheat-sheet showing the button descriptions with the buttons sitting in the right places.  So, I created an almost-empty Apex region and added a button at every possible pre-defined location.  Each button has a label derived from the pull-down menu, so a quick glance shows the button descriptions and where it physically goes in the region.

If you visit the buttons page, you can see the predefined locations in a region and buttons placed among the Apex items. There are three regions on this page:  one region with all the buttons right-aligned, one region with all the buttons left-aligned, and the last region with buttons and data items intermingled.