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Inserting submit buttons

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Inserting submit buttons

Our form is for the most part finished and ready to go. Currently however, it has no way to go anywhere. A well structured InDesign form is absolutely useless without a Submit Button. Submit Buttons are specialized form elements that tell the form to take the data that it has collected and send it to the processing page. To finish the initial construction of our form, we're going to insert a Submit button. So I am going to scroll down into our form, to the very, very end and right down there I can see the Submit Placeholder. So we'll go ahead and get rid of that content and then I want to go up to my Form objects and there is the Submit Button. It's actually just a button to be quite honest with you; it's not called a Submit Button, by default we make it into one. Instead the icon looks kind of like a chicklet. Now, but you youngsters don't even know what chicklets are. All right, so I am going to go ahead and click on that and I get an ID for this, the ID is going to be submit. So…

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