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Add a group box to a form
 

You can organize related fields in your forms into subgroups by using group boxes. Start by adding a group box to your form, and then add the form fields.

In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Design button .

ShowAdd a group box

  1. Click in the form or on the page where you want to place the group box.
  2. On the Insert menu, point to Form, and then click Group Box.

    Note  If you have not started with a form, by default, Microsoft FrontPage creates a form area with Submit and Reset buttons. If FrontPage does not automatically create a form area, the default setting has been changed, and you can reset it.

    ShowHow?

    1. On the Tools menu, click Page Options, and then click the General tab.
    2. Locate and select the Automatically enclose form fields within a form check box.

ShowSet the properties of a group box

  1. Right-click in the group box, and then click Group Box Properties.
  2. In the Label box, type the name of your group box.
  3. In the Align box, select the alignment you want for your group box label.
  4. Click the Style button to access other options for formatting your form by using cascading style sheets (cascading style sheets (CSS): Declarations, either embedded in a Web page or stored in a separate .css file that is linked to a Web page, that specify the appearance of particular HTML elements.) as an inline style (inline style: A method of applying cascading style sheet properties and values to an element on a page, such as a table. You can use this method even if the page is not linked to an external style sheet or does not contain an embedded style sheet.).

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