Issue 128037 - Request: Add a "bottom" or "underline" option to form control text box border properties
Summary: Request: Add a "bottom" or "underline" option to form control text box border...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.6
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Normal (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2019-02-12 00:09 UTC by pagifford
Modified: 2019-03-08 17:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.6
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Form control text box underlining examples (21.66 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2019-02-12 00:09 UTC, pagifford 		no flags Details
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Description pagifford 2019-02-12 00:09:04 UTC 
Created attachment 86639 [details]
Form control text box underlining examples

When creating a fillable form in Writer, the text box form control needs a "bottom" or "underline" option in the "border" properties. Please see the attached examples file.

Using a "flat" border on all four sides of a text box, the form is visually very cluttered and confusing.

Using "without frame" and underlined text, there are big white spaces on either side of the text box's contents, also very confusing.

There is a klugey workaround (see examples), but it's very inelegant. Would adding a "bottom" or "underline" border option be simple?
Comment 1 oooforum (fr) 2019-03-07 17:05:37 UTC 
For me, this enhancement is not necessary. Input field is preformatted in a PDF document. For example, it appears as a blue frame in Acrobat Reader.
Comment 2 pagifford 2019-03-07 21:02:45 UTC 
My enhancement request relates to how a form looks when it is printed out on paper, not how it looks on the screen. To me, a form with "blanks" that are only underlined is significantly easier for the reader to comprehend than the other two examples in my attachment.
Comment 3 Peter 2019-03-08 07:45:05 UTC 
I see here 2 request.
1) the Form controls should be theme able.
2) on different I/O Channels (Screen, Printer) you want different themes.

can we break this down in these two components?
Comment 4 pagifford 2019-03-08 16:55:43 UTC 
I do not know that "theme able" means. I intended to make only one request:

In the Form Control Properties dialog for a text box, General tab, Border list box, add a fourth option - "Underline" or "Bottom" - so that the text box form control would only have a border across the bottom, not on the sides or the top. It would look the same both on the screen and printed on paper.