Repeat Options are confusing

by **dman** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:34 am

I don't know about everyone else, but I find the repeat options a bit confusing, especially the By Day section. Right now you get:

[] S [] M [] T [] W [] T [] F [] S
[] week 1 [] week 2 [] week 3 [] week 4 [] week 5

First, it'd be nice if the day names were a bit better "Sa" "Su" and "Tu" and "Th" already make it a bit more readable to me, but that's not the main thing. I always get confused whether the checkbox is before or after the letter. To help, first you really should use <label> tags. This way I could click on the letter "W" and it would check the box. Right now clicking on "W" does nothing because it's just text. In the unlikely event you've never worked with the label tag you basically do:

<input type="checkbox" id="Sunday" ...><label for="Sunday">Sunday</label>
Now clicking on "Sunday" would check the box.

Finally though, why not put it on multiple lines:
[] Sunday
[] Monday
[] Tuesday
[] Wednesday
[] Thursday
[] Friday
[] Saturday

[] Week 1
[] Week 2
[] Week 3
[] Week 4
[] Week 5

That is much more readable to me.

Just an idea!

by **Geraint** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:40 am

The days and weeks are in labels - if you click the text the checkbox changes. Some of the options are not (I'll fix this)

I agree its could be a bit confusing but a separate line for each item would take a lot of space - perhaps alternating background shading may help without eating up valuable screen space.

Geraint