>>Sometimes, there is no room left for a caption next to a check box. Some clients
>>try to shoehorn in every last piece of info they can onto a screen.
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>A checkbox just hanging out on it's own? This would seem very cryptic and non-standard to me. Is there another way of laying it out, with smaller fonts, or pageframes? Just a thought...


I have a small 4 row set of fields with a column lable over it describing the type of data "Hotels" to the left of each field is "Pref. 1" ,"Pref. 2", etc... and in a second column titled "Booked" I have 4 check boxes without any caption. When the user picks the hotel he/she wants from the ones available, they just click a check box. They can click more than one if desired. This type of form does not need a caption with the check box because the column heading describes with they are for. This is not a grid, just 4 textboxes and 4 check boxes.

It would be nice if the user tabs thru the check boxes then were easier to tell that it has the focus.

John