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Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
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Steps Form: Hiding information from first step. #8870

Open shawnthompson opened 4 years ago

shawnthompson commented 4 years ago

After you put the information in and click submit you lose sign of the information you entered. I'm wondering if someone would think the information was lost or didn't get saved. Why hide it?

GormFrank commented 4 years ago

The goal of this plugin is to show the current step of a "process", which is likely to be a big form, and hide the rest; this is to keep the focus on the current step to accomplish, and to break down a long process into smaller bits. So if you get to step 3, then step 1 and 2 are hidden, but you still see the titles. In my opinion, it is also more appealing to the eye and makes the process of filling a form a bit less painful.

That plugin was suggested in 2017 and was asked for by two departments more recently. That said, if you don't show and hide the different steps, then the plugin becomes basically useless.

Quick idea: I would recommend having some sort of a marker (like a checkmark) to indicate that the step is complete and not just show it as collapsed with a lonely title? In your opinion, would that solve the uncertainty?