highlight a field red

[taddparris]

What would be the best approach to highlight a field red?   The goal is to have all required fields highlighted in red if they are blank or set at a default value.   I have tried using Field Styles with "

border-style: solid;

      border-color: #ff0000

This works but the style shows up on list view which is a little bit too much.   Would rather it just occur on the form and not list view.

Any thoughts?

[Michael Fry1]

Why not make all required fields mandatory, which will put a red star next to the field versus highlighting in red:

[Chuck Tomasi]

I'm with Michael on this one. Make use of the red asterisk.

Black (or even white) text on a red (#ff0000) background is tough on the eyes, especially if you have several of them on the same screen at the same time.

[taddparris]

Some of the conditions behind our required fields are...required in order to move a record to the next state.   That asterisks does not show up until you try to move the record to the next state.   In these cases it is one person filling out the form and another person advancing the state which causes time to be spent recontacting the person filling in the record and stating "this field is required".   There might be another way to design the conditions but I am not sure what they would be.

[taddparris]

We make full use of mandatory fields it is just that they do not work well in all situations.

If Field A, B, D, and E are required to be filled out before going to state 3, they will never show up with the asterisk until you attempt to move it to state 3 from state 2.   Unless you guys know of something we are missing.   I agree the red asterisks would be ideal.