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Isaac Russell
12,091 PointsBootstrap/Forms
What form builder or scripts do you suggest (or, use)? I understand I can build something from scratch with php, but I'm looking for something that might already be ready-made, pre-tested. Something like contact 7 or Gravity forms but for using with Bootstrap. I need something more than just your basic contact form. I need something to handle complex conditionals. Or conditionals built upon conditionals. What have you found useful?
4 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsAre you using a CMS where you could use a plugin like gravity or contact 7? If so, with just some super basic CSS knowledge, you could use those plugins for the functionality, and add the built in bootstrap styling with CSS very easily.
Isaac Russell
12,091 PointsKevin, Hmm, I never thought about it that way. So basically you are saying, just add the Bootstrap style sheets to an existing CMS. Like Wordpress. Do I understand you correctly?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsBasically yes. Lets say you used a plugin to build your form. That plugin in will add it's own id's or classes to all the form elements. You could than either add the bootstrap classes to the specific elements, or use the classes and id's given to the elements by the plugin, and copy and paste the bootstrap styles to match with those classes and id's, thus having a bootstrap styled form with the functionality of a plugin.
It will probably be easier to add the bootstrap styles to the form elements given by the plugin, than to modify the plugin to add the appropriate bootstrap names.
Isaac Russell
12,091 PointsI see. Clever approach. Thanks for your response!