Required Fields outline

[lifelove853]

Good Morning Everyone,

Got a quick question. I'm sure this one an be done somehow. I created a form and the required filds that are not entered get surround in a big RED box.. Can I change that color??? It's really bright.

Thanks ahead of time.

Lucy

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

That is an Acrobat/Reader setting. On the Edit /Preferences menu, choose Forms and you can adjust the "Required Fields Highlight Color" in the HighLight Color  Section.

Paul

[lifelove853]

Thanks a whole bunch! This did work for me but on my machine only. Is this one of those things that everyone that opens the form with have to change the highlighted color if they don't like the red? Is there a way to make it automatically pick up a different color?

Thanks Lucy

[Former Community Member]

no. the only you can either "highlight" fields or not. thats the only two options.

[lifelove853]

I didn’t' think so. Still had to make sure. Thanks a bunch for your help.

[Former Community Member]

I have a question,  I am using liveCycle designer/javascript and what I am trying to accomplish is when the PDF open can only the required fields background be colored and the optional fields not?  

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

First you would need to add JavaScript to the docReady event of the root node (normally "form1").

app.runtimeHighlight = false;

This will turn off the standard highlighting.

Then the simplest way would be to set the background of the mandatory fields manually in LC Designer.

Hope that helps,

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Niall, I will give this a try!