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In this video, we'll finish some basic styling for our job board. This styling will focus on critical functionality and page layout, with finer details coming in future iterations.
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[Master Class] [Designer and Developer Workflow] [Styling the Forms View]
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[Nick Pettit] So far we've styled our index view,
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and we've styled our show view, and they're looking okay.
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We can go ahead and click on any of these and navigate back and forth.
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And if we go to our new job view,
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we can see that it's actually already in pretty good shape.
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We just have a little bit of work to do, so let's go ahead and switch over to TextMate.
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And we don't need to look at our show view anymore.
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We should be done with that for now.
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We'll go ahead and open up our new view and our edit view,
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and it looks like these are pulling in the partial form,
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so we'll go ahead and open that up as well.
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Now, the first thing that I'm noticing in this new view and this edit view
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is this big h1 tag.
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We're going to change that to an h2,
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and we're going to change this to say
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"New Job Posting."
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Just like that.
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And the same thing in our edit view.
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We're going to change this to an h2,
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and we'll say something more friendly like "Edit Job Posting."
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Just like that.
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We can switch back to Easy Jobs! here and refresh the page.
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And that's much more friendly text, although we do need to style it,
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so we can go ahead and do that.
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Let's go ahead and switch back,
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and let's just take a look at this form view.
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The thing that I'm noticing is that we have the field class
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applied to each one of these, and that's fine.
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And then we have "actions" down here.
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We can go ahead and use these in our styling.
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In addition, we also have labels,
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and I think I'm going to set those to block level elements
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just so they push down the form fields below them.
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So, let's go ahead and go over to our application.sas,
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and this file is getting pretty long.
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But not long enough to add comments just yet.
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We'll go ahead and add that in maybe in our next iteration.
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And let's go ahead and first select our fields,
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just to make sure that we can actually select those.
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And we'll just put a light yellow background color on them
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just to make sure that everything is working properly.
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We'll go ahead and switch back and refresh.
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And it looks like we can indeed style those,
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so that's looking good.
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Inside of each one of these fields,
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we're going to select the label,
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and we're going to say "display: block."
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And let's just see if that pushes these form fields down below them.
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We'll switch back and refresh the page.
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Now, it looks like that didn't quite work, so let's go ahead and open up
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the source and just take a look at what's going on here.
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It looks like these labels actually aren't classes.
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They're actually label tags, so let's go ahead and change this label
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just to be a normal label tag.
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So, we'll go ahead and save that out, switch back to the browser and refresh the page.
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This is looking pretty good.
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Now, let's go ahead and start styling this h2.
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So, we'll switch back, and we're not really using any other h2s anywhere else,
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so we can just go ahead and say that h2s are always going to be
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the page title.
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With this h2 here, we'll go ahead and say "font-weight: bold."
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And we'll go ahead and increase the font size
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and say font size will be about 1.4 ems.
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Switch back and refresh the page, and I think that looks pretty good.
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Let's just go ahead and add some margin on the top and bottom of that
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just to separate it out a little bit.
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And we can actually maybe include some friendlier text for each one of those labels.
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But first, I'm going to apply some margin to the top of those labels
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of about 20 pixels just to space them out a little bit better.
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That looks pretty good.
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And now let's go ahead and dive into that form view.
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And we'll go ahead and change the label on these.
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Let's go ahead and just change this to say "Job Title."
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We'll change the description to say "Job Description."
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We'll change company name to say "Company Name."
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And then the details link we'll say "Details Link,"
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and we'll say "(optional)."
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And as one final touch, I want to go ahead and move this company name
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so that it's right after the job title
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just so that it reflects the show view a little bit more closely
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so that we have our title, our company name,
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job description, and our details link.
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So, we'll go ahead and switch back to the browser and refresh.
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And as you can see, we now have our job title,
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company name, job description, and details link.
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So, I'd say that about does it for the new job posting view.
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Let's just go ahead and check on the edit view.
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All that seems to be in good working order.
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We have our title coming in, our company name,
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our job description, and our details link.
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So, that should about wrap it up for the forms.
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Let's go ahead and commit our work.
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Go ahead and switch over to our terminal.
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Stop our server.
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Say "git add . git commit" with a message flag,
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and we'll say "Started the form view styling."
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We'll go ahead and commit that, and we'll say "git push."
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And that should just about wrap things up.
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I think we're ready to go ahead and meet with Jim.
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