You certainly could hack Contact Form 7’s plugin code. But what I would do would be to leave the HTML alone, and style with CSS. You could use all kinds of style touches, ranging from subtle enhancements to using a different image. Here are some nice ideas for that:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/styling-form-controls-revisited/submit-button/
http://cssbutton.com/forms/
That’s my preference, as I’d rather hack CSS than PHP. 🙂
Cheers, Dave
Hey Dave
That won’t work here as I can’t add a class / ID to the submit button, and using the input css tag means all my inputs would be the same as the submit button.
Looks like I am going to havw to hack the php….
I have just got it working, I had to hack the plugin file submit.php, and edit the following line
$html = …
I jsut added a class and removed the value.
It’s not advisable if you’re using different forms on one site, but if all the forms are the same then it’s the easiest way.
Good show! You’re more of a coder than I am, probably.
It’s still usually possible to use CSS styling on your form with no added class or id on the button. Well-constructed themes have all kinds of classes and ids on DIV’s which surround your content, and they are automagically populated with material that shows that unique item. As a very simple example you’ll see things like:
<div id="post-11"...
This is also super handy for styling things where the client will say “I want this cuckoo color and cuckoo border, but only on this one page”.
Another benefit of not touching PHP code is that no need to worry about borking your change when you upgrade.
So it’s very quick and easy to style only that one form if you’re handy with the CSS cascade. That’s the beauty of WP… so many ways to solve a problem.
